Joe Serock: (X-X) (X)
Rod Pardey: (X-X) (X)
Kathy Baxter: (X-X) -FOLD
Serock brought in and then Pardey completed. Baxter called and then when action got back to Serock, he raised. Pardey and Baxter both called. From there, Serock bet on all streets when action was on him. Baxter stayed with her hand until fifth street, where she folded. Pardey stayed all the way and ended up being all in on sixth.
When he got all in, Serock rolled up in the hole. Pardey had a wired pair of eights, .
On seventh street, Serock peeled the , leaving Pardey with outs to any two pair or trips. Pardey pulled the though and couldn't beat Serock's aces. He was eliminated on the hand while Serock bumped himself up to 145,000 chips.
The aim of the split-pot games is to scoop. It's the only way to make any money. That's exactly what Fabrice Soulier just did to James Van Alstyne. Van Alstyne check-called fifth street, sixth street and the river.
At showdown, Soulier turned up in the hole for a diamond flush and an 8-6 low. Van Alstyne just mucked his hand and dropped to 63,000. Soulier now has 240,000.
In a hand of stud hi/lo, Bryan Micon scooped a pot with a six-high straight which worked for both halves of the pot. He was able to bust one player on the hand and increase his stack to 80,000.
There was a big three-way pot over at one of the tables recently. Both Jim Silveira and Farzad Rouhani were all in. All of the money went in on fifth street and here's how the hands played out.
Silveira: ()
Rouhani: ()
Opponent: ()
Rouhani was able to scoop the entire pot worth almost 90,000 chips with trip aces against his two opponents. Silveira was eliminated on the hand.
It hasn't been the best hour for Lana Maier. Her stack seems to slowly be shrinking. We just walked by her table in time to see Maier paying off Fabrice Soulier on the river of a ? board. Maier turned up the black kings, which were no good against Soulier's . He flopped the nut straight.
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It's late. Players have been playing poker all day. They're tired. It's natural that there are going to be a few disputes. We just witnessed one at 182, where one player announced raise while putting chips out in front of his hand. He didn't have enough chips for the raise, so he went back to his stack to complete the raise.
The other player in the hand, the big blind, yelled it was a string raise. The dealer agreed, prompting the small blind to sputter with rage. A floor was summoned, with the small blind jamming his finger in the face of the dealer. After instructing the small blind to calm down, the floor listened to the story and ruled that the verbal raise declaration was binding.
Now it was the big blind's turn to steam. He argued that it was the wrong ruling, but the floor would not budge. "I've made my decision, sir. You can call or fold."
"Or raise," Bryan Micon helpfully added from the other end of the table.
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It was a long day for Andy Black. He started the day as one of the chip leaders, but every time we counted him, his stack didn't seem to change very much. That wasn't a problem in the early levels, when he had 50-60 big bets in his stack. It became much more of a problem later in the day, with limits at a whopping 5,000 and 10,000. Black couldn't accumulate the chips he needed. He's now out.
It was much the same story for Bryan Devonshire, with exactly the same result. He's also out.
It was not the ending that Robert Lewis was hoping for. He started 7-2 / 4 in razz and completed. Mitch Schock called with 7-A / 4. The two players had identical 4-Q-9 boards by fifth street, where Lewis was all in. He was drawing dead by the river, as Schock improved to an 8-7 and Lewis was drawing at a 9. He is the 26th-place finisher.
Vassilios Lazarou couldn't stay in the game after his opponent that was rolled up pulled a full house on the river. Lazarou was out in 25th place and with his elimination, the players will now redraw at three tables.
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