Shamus
With a board showing , David Chiu and Neil Chris exchanged a series of reraises that finally ended when Chris was all in. Chiu showed for the rivered boat, but unfortunately for him Chris had to take the pot.
After flirting with the quarter million-chip mark, Chiu is now down to 83,000, while Chris moves up to 240,000.
Shamus
Matt Glantz just eliminated an opponent when his outraced his shorter-stacked foe's pocket kings. An ace flopped, and a queen came on the turn. Glantz's hand held up, and he has now pushed up to 255,000.
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The Phil Hellmuth show is back in town ladies and gentlemen and sparks are already flying over at Table 70 where he tangled in a pot with Terry Bailey.
On a flop of , Hellmuth bet 10,000 and Bailey called. Both players checked the on the turn but when the river fell the , Bailey raised Hellmuth's 11,000 bet to 25,000.
"It's too early to be taking bad beats in this tourney!" spat Hellmuth as he stood up from his seat. After a bit more hemming and hawing, he decided to call... and it was a good one.
Bailey showed for a bluff with nothing but a pair of sixes, while Hellmuth took down the pot with . Bailey was left with only 52,000 while Hellmuth is over the 165K mark.
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Johnny Chan raises to 2,500 from middle position and Vanessa Rousso calls from the cut off. Steven Weinstein, in the small blind, then makes it 10,000 to go. Chan folds and Rousso calls.
The flop comes and both players check. The turn is the and Weinstein checks again. Rousso makes a bet of 10,000 and she is quickly called. The river brings the and they check it down. Weinstein shows and Rousso mucks her cards.
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Daniel Negreanu
After a player in the cutoff opened to 2,500, Daniel Negreanu reraised all in to 27,000 from the button. The small blind folded, Doug Lee called from the big blind, and the cutoff got out of the way.
Lee showed , and Negreanu . The flop came , giving Negreanu the lead. But the on the turn meant Kid Poker had suddenly gone from way ahead to way behind. The on the river gave Negreanu two pair, but it was not enough to overcome Lee's set. Negreanu is out, and Lee now has 178,000.
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After watching his stack shrink to 73,000 Andy Bloch is back up to an average stack after chasing his opponents away with an all-in move.
Bloch was the initial raiser, making it 2,700 to go from UTG+1. Yevgeniy Timoshenko reraised to 8,400 from middle position, J.C. Tran flat-called from the cutoff, Alec Torelli called from the button, and Bloch called.
The flop was . Bloch checked, Timoshenko bet 18,000, Tran folded, Torelli called, and Bloch came over the top for the rest of his chips, 71,100 in all. Timoshenko insta-mucked, but Torelli tanked for quite a while before ultimately giving up his hand and conceding the pot to Bloch.
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Peter Eastgate
A short-stacked Peter Eastgate pushed all in with his last 22,600, and after a short bit of deliberation Keith Lehr made the call.
"The reigning world champion is all in!" cried their tablemate, the bearded Andy Black. Eastgate turned over and Lehr .
The flop came , giving Lehr the set but Eastgate outs to Broadway. But the turn was the and the river . About four-and-half hours after having announced "Shuffle up and deal," Eastgate is out.