[user25067]
Bryan Micon, Degenerate King
Four players limped in preflop, including Bryan Micon on the button. The flop was and the action was checked around. The turn was the . Everyone checked to the player in the cutoff, who bet 300. Micon raised to 850 and the cutoff made what looked like a reluctant call. The river was the . The cutoff checked, Micon bet 800 and the cutoff called.
Micon showed for trips. The cutoff flashed the as he mucked his hand.
"I knew what you had! I knew what you had!" said Micon as he raked in the pot. He's up to 21,000.
[user42991]
After taking a pot with a straight a little earlier, Lee followed that up a couple of hands later when he hit a six-high flush against an opponent's wheel to take down a 15,000-chip pot.
Lee has been playing fast early on, raising and reraising a lot of pots. He has held aces twice and kings once so far.
[user38368]
A player in early position limps in and Steve Billirakis calls next to him. Two middle-position players also call.
The flop is and it's checked to the first MP who bets 750. The other MP raises to 3,000 and everyone folds. Billirakis has lost some of his stack and has 15,050 now.
MarcC
Over 200 tables are in use at the start of today's play in more than four different areas of the Rio so it's unlikely you'll be seated near someone you know. But love has that strange bond that can overcome probability and $50,000 H.O.R.S.E runner-up Michael DeMichele and girlfriend Erika Trenck have just that.
They're seated at tables next to each other and seem to be spending as much time at each other's table as their own. The things that love can do....ah!
donpeters
Tim vance - event #46
Tim Vance raised to 325 from middle position and Ray Henson called from the button. The flop came down . Vance checked and Henson bet out 500. Vance called.
The turn was the and Vance checked again. Henson bet 1,200 and Vance raised it up to 4,000. Henson just called.
The river was the and Vance checked. Henson tossed a stack out in the middle that was enough to put Vance all in, about 14,000. Vance made the call.
Henson showed him for the nut flush. Vance had flopped the straight with .
"F***ing moron," said Vance as he tossed his cards across the table. "It was a pleasure playing with you all, it's been like that the whole Series. Nice hand, sir."
[user66118]
This year's WSOP saw a small rule change that permitted players to use profanity in moderation, provided it wasn't directed at another player, dealer, or member of the staff. Despite this relaxation in the rules, the floor persons have been enforcing the hostile profanity penalty very strictly.
"Floor, Green 13!" yelled a dealer near us. By the time the man in the suit arrived at the table, one of the players was already storming out of the room. The dealer proceeded to inform the floor person that the absent player had berated him, screaming, "What the f*ck are you doing?!"
The dealer said, "It didn't offend me, he is just steaming." He'll have a little time to cool down, as the floor staff gave instructions that the offender not be dealt in for one full round.
[user75032]
Another feel-good story in the Blue Section is that of David Spencer, a player dressed in an orange shirt and orange hat at Blue #23. Spencer has pledged to donate 100% of all money he makes during the World Series to ovarian cancer research. Spencer's own family was touched by the disease when his mother-in-law, Nancy Blumer, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 64.
donpeters
Rob Dunbar limped from early position and then Jose Canseco raised to 500. The big blind called as well as Dunbar. The flop came down and the action checked around.
The turn was the . The big blind bet 500 and then Dunbar raised to 1,500. Canseco exercised some muscle and reraised to 5,000. It might have been too much as both the other players folded.
"I didn't hit a set that time," said Dunbar.
"I think I did," replied Canseco as he rolled over two tens to show the table.
[user38971]
Paul Wolfe
Paul Wolfe was eliminated after pushing in his remaining 1,600 with . He was called by an opponent holding . The flop of looked awful for Wolfe. He found some hope in the on the turn, but it was squashed when the landed on the river.
Shamus
A player under the gun raised to 250, then the player to his left reraised to 825. Mike Minetti called from late position. Then the original raiser re-popped it to 3,475 total. Both of his opponents called.
The flop came . The player under the gun promptly bet 18,000, leaving himself only a few green (25) and blue (100) chips behind. The player to his left thought for two minutes, then folded, as did Minetti. The under-the-gun player rechecked his cards, then showed only the before dragging the pot.
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and the action was checked around. The turn was the 
. Everyone checked to the player in the cutoff, who bet 300. Micon raised to 850 and the cutoff made what looked like a reluctant call. The river was the 
. The cutoff checked, Micon bet 800 and the cutoff called. 
for trips. The cutoff flashed the 
as he mucked his hand. 
and it's checked to the first MP who bets 750. The other MP raises to 3,000 and everyone folds. Billirakis has lost some of his stack and has 15,050 now.
and Vance checked again. Henson bet 1,200 and Vance raised it up to 4,000. Henson just called.
and Vance checked. Henson tossed a stack out in the middle that was enough to put Vance all in, about 14,000. Vance made the call.
for the nut flush. Vance had flopped the straight with 
.
and the action checked around.
. He was called by an opponent holding 
. The flop of 
on the turn, but it was squashed when the 
before dragging the pot.