Armando "Tiny" Ruiz and his opponent made it to the turn of a board and Ruiz checked; his opponent bet two orange 1,000 chips and Ruiz raised to four orange 1,000 chips. Mr Opponent attempted to call, but actually put out five orange chips instead of just four.
This was interpreted as a raise to 6,000 and Mr Opponent was forced to throw in the extra chip. So Ruiz did the decent thing and four-bet. His opponent called, and then called another bet from Ruiz on the river.
Ruiz tabled to scoop the whole lot; by inadvertently extracting maximum value from that hand, he's up to 72,000.
A heated argument erupted on Orange #77, John Juanda's table. We arrived to see Fabio Coppola protesting his case vigorously and Juanda disputing. As near as we could deduce from all the sputterings, with four low cards on board at showdown Juanda tabled some sort of two pair with a bad low. And here is where the stories diverge.
The dealer, and most of the table, believe that Coppola said "You're good," and surrendered his hand to the dealer. Coppola believes he said "You're good, I have ace-deuce," and may have flashed his cards enough so that the player to Juanda's right was able to see them. Coppola's live-ace would have been enough for the low half of the pot.
Juanda and the rest of the table disputed whether or not Coppola declared ace-deuce but felt that it shouldn't matter because he didn't table his cards. The dealer awarded the pot to Juanda, and amidst all of angy shouting a floor supervisor was summoned. That supervisor made the same ruling, namely that Juanda should win the whole pot.
Coppola refused to concede, to the point that Jimmy Sommerfeld was summoned to the table. He listened in turn to: the dealer; Coppola; Juanda; and the table, then made his ruling.
"It's real simple," said Sommerfeld. "If you don't table your cards, you don't have a live hand. You must table your cards. The whole pot goes to John."
And with that, the crowd of onlookers gathered around the table dispersed.
Shirley Rosario told us last week that she considers the split-pot games -- especially Omaha Hi/Lo -- to be her best games. She put those skills to work in a recent hand to get a small piece of Dutch Boyd.
Rosario opened from early position with a raise. Boyd three-bet the button, folding the blinds and bringing the action back to Rosario. She four-bet and Boyd called. On a flop of , Rosario's bet induced a fold and won her the pot.
Several players coming back today were very, very short. Barry Greenstein was one of those players to start the day. Now he is among the ranks of the eliminated. No details available; just amidst all the pomp and circumstance of the bracelet ceremonies, we noticed Greenstein's seat was empty and the seat card was out.
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Jungblut now bet out, and then called his opponent's push for 2,700 total. They flipped the cards.
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to scoop the whole lot; by inadvertently extracting maximum value from that hand, he's up to 72,000.
