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We give Scott Bohlman credit for trying. After Josh Schlein opened for a raise from the cutoff, Bohlman three-balled the button. That pushed out both blinds and once Schlein called, it left Schlein and Bohlman heads up.
Schlein was all in on a flop of . Bohlman called with , having made nothing but a low draw. Schlein showed a pair of eights, . Each player paired the turn; when the river came it was a chopped pot. Schlein took the high with aces and eights, while Bohlman got the low with a live trey.
Strangely, the active Fabio Coppola was not involved in that pot at all.
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Josh Schlein - 5th Place
It was inevitable that Josh Schlein would lose one of his all-in confrontations. He'd been living dangerously for at least the last hour. He got all 110,000 of his chips in the middle against Derek Raymond. Two ugly hands were opened.
Raymond:
Schlein:
Each player hit a pair on the flop. They also had low draws, although Raymond's was the better draw. When the hit the turn, we were ready to say goodbye to Schlein. He was out of the feature table area with an river.
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Mark Tenner - 1,100,000
Scott Bohlman - 900,000
Fabio Coppola - 675,000
Derek Raymond - 400,000
For what it's worth (we're not sure how much that is), for the better part of the last thirty minutes Scott Bohlman has been trying to convince Fabio Coppola that Bohlman can see Coppola's cards reflected in his sunglasses.
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In case you didn't notice, we're playing 30k / 60k limits now. With the most hands playing for a raise preflop, a showdown requires an investment of at least 210,000 chips. Lose a few pots in a row... well, you get the idea.
Mark Tenner's chip lead has rapidly evaporated. He's back below one million in chips after firing at the turn of a board that showed . Fabio Coppola said, "Wow," thought things over, then called.
Both players checked the river. Coppola took down the pot with , to the raucous delight of the assembled Italians. He's now up to about 815,000 in chips.
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This final table is quickly turning into a three-horse race contested among Fabio Coppola, Scott Bohlman and Mark Tenner, with Derek Raymond looking on from several lengths behind. Already the short stack, Raymond feel further behind his competitors in a recent hand against Coppola.
Prior to the flop, Raymond was in the big blind and declined his option after Coppola and Tenner limped in. All players checked the flop. On the turn, Tenner checked to Raymond, who fired the first shot. Only Coppola called.
That one call shut Raymond down on the river. The action went check, check, with Coppola showing for a pair of aces and a six-four low. Raymond nodded, sighed and mucked his hand.
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Scott Bohlman
Remember what we said about one losing hand potentially being a killer? Scott Bohlman has slipped to 375,000 after Mark Tenner caught the perfect river card.
The action was raised by Bohlman on the button preflop, with Tenner and Derek Raymond calling from the blinds. On a flop of , action checked to Bohlman. He bet and both other players called.
The turn put a fourth low card on board, . Tenner now led out, folding Raymond and drawing a call from Bohlman.
That's when the river came down. It was the and Tenner bet again.
"Oh God," said Bohlman with a heavy sigh. He couldn't bring himself to find a fold, however, choosing instead to toss in a call. Tenner showed what everyone expected to see, for the rivered wheel. Bohlman disgustedly tossed his cards to the dealer, flashing two aces (a set of aces) as he did.
He's spent the last several minutes staring at the ceiling of the Amazon Room. We can assure you that there's nothing interesting or exciting up there.
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It's becoming exceedingly difficult to get an accurate count on Mark Tenner. That's not because he has such a massive pile of chips, but because he clearly has them stacked in odd amounts.
He did just take a small pot off of Derek Raymond by calling the turn and betting the river, . Raymond folded to the river bet, preserving a renewed chip stack of about 900,000 chips.
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Your leader, Mark Tenner - 1.3 million
Derek Raymond - 850,000
The excitable Italian, Fabio Coppola - 750,000
A deeply unhappy Scott Bohlman - 250,000
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We didn't expect Scott Bohlman to get three-quarters of the pot when he opened at the river of a board. Bohlman had check-called bets from Derek Raymond the whole way down. The thing is, Raymond showed a similar, but slightly worse, hand as Bohlman's - . Each player showed the nut low, but Bohlman's ace-king just barely out-pipped Raymond's ace-queen for the high.
Add in a couple of small pots after that to increase Bohlman's count back to 575,000. Yes kids, we're into big swings now. Biiiiiiig swings.