MarcC
Just before the players head off for dinner, the two big stacks of Jason Lester and Julian Romero and one other player went to battle. There were a series of bets and raises before the flop came .
The other player dropped out, but Lester and Romero committed the rest of their stacks. Lester was by far the happier with his for a flopped set than Romero was with his .
The set helped and Lester rockets up to 216,000. Romero is bust.
MarcC
Sverre Sundbo woke up this morning wondering what to wear today. He called his girlfriend and she gave him a few suggestions. One of his choices was to wear a new pair of white sneakers.
Within the first level, he had seen his double-the-average stack reduced to less than 10,000. He called his girlfriend again and she told him to take off the sneakers as they might be bringing him bad luck. He duly did what he was told and, pot win after pot win, has seen his stack rise all the way up to 150,000.
Sverre can now be seen walking around the Amazon room in white socks which may now be dirty, but the smile on his face is clean and wide.
[user38368]
Joey "joeytheB" Brooks just got moved - just to the left of Vanessa Rousso. The new draw doesn't seem to have hurt him much, as he's got 170,000 now.
[user25067]
Alex Michaels opened for 2,000 from early position and Alex Kravchenko called from the big blind. The flop was and both players checked. The turn was the . Kravchenko bet 3,200 and Michaels called. The river was the . Kravchenko made an unusually small bet of 1,000, Michaels raised to 6,500, and after thinking it over for several minutes, Kravchenko called.
Michaels showed and Kravchenko mucked. Both players were left with 90,000 after the hand.
[user40108]
On a flop of , Ronald Moore got another player to stack off with him with top pair top kicker. Unfortunately for the other player, Moore held and it held up. Moore doubled up to just over 80,000 on the hand.
MarcC
Phew
Neil Channing and an opponent saw a raised pot with a flop that read . Channing was first to act from the small blind and he decided to move all in for his final 31,200. He wasn't too happy to see a caller as he had failed to hit yet with . His opponent had hit though with .
The turn came and river to make a bigger pair for Channing and help him double-up to 80,000.
donpeters
Joe Bolnick raised to 2,800 and Ylon Schwartz made the call. The two players took a flop of and Bolnick checked. Schwartz bet 6,000 and Bolnick check-raised all in.
Schwartz tanked for a few minutes and then Bolnick called the clock. After 30 seconds, Schwartz said "All right, I call."
Bolnick showed and Schwartz held . The turn and river blanked out and Schwartz's set was good in the end to move him up to 117,000.
[user25067]
Brian Schaedlich moved all in on a flop of with and was called by an opponent holding . The turn was the , the river was the and Schaedlich raked in the 50,000 pot, pushing his stack up to 330,000.
On a subsequent hand, Schaedlich moved an opponent all in preflop and got a call. Schaedlich's held up against his opponent's when the board ran out ten high and he now commands a stack of 370,000 chips.
Shamus
We just had a three-way all in, following a flop of . Jonah Rogers was in for his entire stack of 27,000, Richard Burns was also all in for his stack of 55,000, and Walter Hall, who had them both covered, was there as well.
Rogers
Burns
Hall
Talk about an action flop. Rogers was in the lead with his set of jacks. The turn brought the , giving Burns a flush draw. "It's never safe," said Rogers.
The river was the , giving Rogers the main pot, Hall the side pot, and knocking out Burns. Rogers now has 90,000, and Hall 80,000.
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and that would be it for Formica.
and both players checked. The turn was the 
. Kravchenko made an unusually small bet of 1,000, Michaels raised to 6,500, and after thinking it over for several minutes, Kravchenko called. 
and Kravchenko mucked. Both players were left with 90,000 after the hand.
and it held up. Moore doubled up to just over 80,000 on the hand.
. His opponent had hit though with 
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and river 
. The turn and river blanked out and Schwartz's set was good in the end to move him up to 117,000.
with 
, the river was the 
held up against his opponent's 
when the board ran out ten high and he now commands a stack of 370,000 chips.
. Jonah Rogers was in for his entire stack of 27,000, Richard Burns was also all in for his stack of 55,000, and Walter Hall, who had them both covered, was there as well.
