[user75032]
The board read . Jeff Williams was in the hand against one other player with roughly 30,000 chips already in the middle. Williams checked to his opponent, who bet 15,500. That meant it was tank time for "Yellowsub," who took several minutes before check-raising all in for 44,000. His opponent called immediately.
"F*CK!" shouted Williams, slamming down on the felt. His reaction was correct, as his opponent turned over for a small full house, threes full of nines. No worries for Williams -- he promptly spiked the on the river for a bigger full house and a double-up to 120,000.
[user42991]
On the turn, with the board showing , Chuck Thompson bet out 2,500 and Glen Willcock made the call. The river fell the and action was checked around.
Willcock showed and Thompson showed .
After the hand, Willcock moved up to 38,000 and Thompson moved down to 44,000.
After the hand, Thompson said, "Why did you check on the river?"
Willcock: "You can't have two nines?"
Another player: "Ya. Never bet with second nuts."
MarcC
Tyron Krost is a 21-year-old Party Poker qualifier from Sydney, Australia. One and a half orbits ago he was sitting on a stack 23,000 deep. Now he's the proud owner of a stack 115,000 deep.
How did he do that, you might ask? Running aces into queens, then into kings and then into a mucked hand might have something to do with it.
Asked how he feels after this little rush came back with the answer "Feeling good."
[user38971]
We've been losing players left and right here and with only 700 players remaining, we've lost over 500 players by dinner. That's a rough average of 100 players per hour.
As a result, Martin Klaser and Marc Vos had made a side wager about how long it would take for their table to break. We won't go into specifics, but let's just say Klaser's expenses for the day rose quite a bit.
[user38368]
Maya Antonius
Maya Antonius, significant other of Patrik, tells us that over multiple events, every time she gets a new table draw, her new table gets broken again right away. She seems to be the type of player that likes to stay in one place for awhile and build up a table image.
Shamus
Keith Hawkins raised to 2,100, and Dale Pinchot called from the big blind. The flop came . Pinchot checked, Hawkins bet 4,200, and Pinchot called. Both checked the on the turn. They both also checked the on the river.
Pinchot showed for a pair of queens, and Hawkins mucked. Pinchot has crossed the hundred grand mark -- he now has 103,000.
Hawkins kept getting involved afterwards, though, using his big stack to pressure his opponents. On a subsequent hand, a player in the cutoff seat raised to 2,100, Pinchot called from the button, then Hawkins reraised to 12,100 from the big blind. Both opponents folded.
[user75032]
Brandon Adams is running hot. His pocket jacks were better than his opponent's pocket tens on a board of . All the money was in the middle -- a total of about 70,000 in chips. The turn and river ran out , allowing Adams to drag yet another pot. He is now at 214,000 in chips.
donpeters
Silvio Formica from Day 1b
Drago Timarac was facing a decision to call Silvio Formica's all-in bet of 19,800 after the flop came down . Formica has been prominently mouthy all tournament long and stood up to call the ESPN cameras over.
The cameras came to the table and Formica's mouth stayed wide open. "Make sure you get this hand boys. I want the world to see this. I want this to be on TV," he said.
Drago thought and then made the call with . Formica rolled over . "A straight and a flush," he said pertaining to both the draws he held.
The turn was the and Formica clapped his hands together when he hit his flush. The river was the .
"I'm the greatest player in the...world," claimed Formica as he circled his hands in order to make the shape of a globe. "Don't mess with the Italian Stallion baby!"
[user42991]
Two people, including Jeremiah Smith, limped into a pot before the Dan Assor made a raise to 2,600 from the button. Smith called, and the two men played on. On a flop of , Smith checked to Assor, who bet 6,000. Smith raised to 15,000 and Assor called.
The turn fell the and Smith again checked to Assor who bet 20,000, which Smith called.
The river fell the and Smith bet out 25,000. Assor made the call.
Assor showed and Smith mucked.
After the hand Assor moved up to 194,000 chips, while Smith moved down to 211,000.