On a board of Joe Reitman checked the action to his opponent Raj Vohra who fired out 10,000 chips. Reitman made the call for his tournament life and tabled , but found himself up against the dominant of Vohra.
Reitman hits the rail while Vohra, who final-tabled the $5,000 no-limit Hold'em event earlier in the series, is now up to 43,000 chips.
On a turn of , a player under the gun checks. Ut Nguyen bets 1,500 in late position. The hijack calls. The button raises all in to 5,700 and UTG folds. Ut calls and the hijack calls.
The river is and everyone checks.
Comically, Ut shows , the hijack shows and the button shows for three busted flush draws. The rivered king is good for the hijack and Ut is down to 14,000. If another spade had hit, there might have been trouble.
A couple of big hands over at Juan Macieras and Mark Zinn's table have resulted in a significant exchange of chips.
On one of the hands, Macieras, who has been involved in numerous pots, called Zinn's all-in on a flop of 4-5-7. Zinn showed 6-8 for the nut straight, while Macieras had ace-five. The turn and river blanked out, and now Zinn has catapulted up to 51,000. Meanwhile, Macieras has slipped all of the way down to 13,000.
Four limpers were in the pot preflop before Rhett Butler popped it up to 1,600 from the cutoff. Two players made the call.
They took a flop of and an early-position player led at the pot for 3,000. The middle-position player flat-called before Butler raised it up to 13,000. The EP player then reraised all in for 13,500 in total, and the action was with the MP player. He asked Butler how many chips he had behind and after discovering he had another 7,700 left, he decided to also move all in! Butler quipped "You have quad sixes, huh?" before making the call.
Butler flipped over for a flopped boat to hold the lead over the and of his opponents.
The turn was the to make the middle-position player a smaller full house, but the on the river gave Butler a monsterous pot to jump up to 63,000 chips.
Madsen in Event #53
Jeff Madsen related to us a recent hand, where on a flop of , an opponent checked and he bet. The opponent called. The turn was and the opponent bet. Madsen raised and the opponent called. The river was and the opponent bet 5,000 into a 20,000 pot. Madsen called. Madsen turned over and the opponent had for a busted straight. Madsen has chipped up to 55,000.
An early-position player and a late-position player limped in, Ken Einiger moved all in from the small blind and both players called. The flop was . The EP player checked, the LP player bet 1,000 and the EP player folded. Einiger's could not outrun his opponent's on the turn or river and he was eliminated.
Liz Lieu - Event #53
Liz Lieu raised to 600 from middle position and got a late-position caller. The player in the cutoff seat reraised to 1,800 and both Lieu and the middle-position player came along. The flop came . The action checked around and the hit the turn. The action checked around again and the came off on the river.
Lieu bet 1,300 and got one caller. She showed for the flopped full house and her opponent mucked. She now commands a stack of about 45,000.
Juan Maceiras and Mark Zinn just tangled once again. After winning one hand and chipping up over 20,000, Maceiras pushed all in preflop, and Zinn called.
Maceiras
Zinn
"Anybody else and I lay it down," said Zinn.
The board came , and just like that Macieras is back up to 44,000 and Zinn has tumbled to 20,000.
Lee Childs and the button checked a flop. The turn was the and Childs led out for 2,000. The button called. The river was the . Childs checked, the button bet 5,000 and Childs called.
Childs looked as if he were about to flip over the winner, until he saw the button's and mucked. He's down to 11,000.