Donnie Peters
John "Johnny World" Hennigan bet the entire way with his board reading (X-X) (X). Dan Heimiller called down on every street. After the final street, Henningan announced, "Three eights."
"You gotta be kidding me," responded Heimiller as he then mucked his hand to Hennigan turning over .
The pot was worth over 100,000 chips and Hennigan is up to 165,000.
Action was capped on fourth street between Dustin Sitar, Tuan Le, and George Lind III. Le led the betting on fifth. Lind called all in and Sitar called as well. On sixth and seventh, Sitar check-called bets from Le.
Sitar and Le fought over the side pot first. Le showed for an eight-seven low. "I have a pair of nines for the high," said Sitar in response to seeing Le's cards. That pair of nines would get him half of the side pot.
Lind then tabled for trip tens, which beat out Sitar's pair of nines for the high half of the main pot. Le also took the low half of the main pot.
Sitar was crippled on the hand and now has only a few thousand chips.
Donnie Peters
Jeff Lisandro and Lyle Berman got into a small battle shortly after Lisandro moved tables. Both players were going for a low and missed. Lisandro picked up a pair of sevens along the way and that was good enough to rake in the pot of over 50,000 chips.
Steve Billirakis (X)(X) (X)
Tony Cousineau (X)(X) (X)
Alexander Jung (X)(X) (X)
Claudio Rinaldi (X)(X) (X)
Four-way massive pot. So much betting and raising on fourth through sixth streets we couldn't keep up. On seventh, the action was checked to Rinaldi who bet out. All three of his opponents called.
Though Jung showed for an ace-high club flush, Rinaldi turned over for quads. Both Cousineau and Billirakis missed their low draws and Rinaldi scooped the pot to take his stack up to 217,000.
"Mamma Mia!" cried fellow Italian Dario Minieri as Rinaldi raked in the pot.
The other three players in the hand were crippled. Jung was left with 40,000, Cousineau had 14,000 and Billirakis was sitting on 20,000.
Picking up the action on fourth street, Nick Schulman and John Juanda checked to Doyle Brunson. Brunson bet and then Schulman raised. Juanda called in between before Brunson reraised. Schulman and Juanda both called.
On fifth street, both Schulman and Juanda check-called a bet from Brunson. On sixth, the same action as the previous street occurred.
Schulman checked dark as his final card was slid to him across the felt from the dealer's hand. Juanda took the opportunity to bet. Doyle then raised all in for one complete bet more. Schulman tanked and studied the hand. He folded after about a minute of deliberation. Juanda also took his time. "I guess you had a wheel," he said as he tossed in the call.
"Well, I made a wheel," said Brunson as he turned up . Juanda mucked his hand and the entire pot was awarded to Doyle.
Tom Koral managed to triple up to 75,000 on his last hand. Starting off with rolled-up deuces, he was all in on fifth street and made a full house by the river. John Hennigan missed his low and Koral scooped.
Donnie Peters
Howard Lederer was leading most streets in a hand that began four handed, but dwindled down to just heads up between him and Dan Heimiller. Heimiller called Lederer's last bet on seventh and was shown two pair, kings and nines. Howard's board showed with two kings and one nine in the hole. He's now up to 142,000.
We caught up to this one on seventh street, Brunson betting out and Juanda making the call. Brunson turned up for an ace-high flush and a 7-5-3-2-A low to scoop, leaving Juanda with only 32,000. Brunson is now up to 128,000.
Donnie Peters
Chip Jett doubled through Scotty Nguyen with two pair, kings up. Scotty missed his low draw on the hand. Jett had about 40,000 to start the hand and is now up to 85,000 chips.
On another table, Joe Tehan won a pot worth approximately 40,000 from David Benyamine. Benyamine was showing a pair of threes, but mucked after Tehan showed him a spade flush.