A player under the gun raised to 250, the player to his left called, and Eddy Sabat called as well from late position. The blinds folded, and the flop came . The original raiser bet 1,450, and only Sabat called. The turn was the , and both checked.
The river was the . The UTG player bet 1,350, and Sabat called. Sabat showed -- he'd flopped the straight -- but his opponent had -- he'd turned it, and they chopped. Sabat is still at 32,000.
Catching the action on the turn with the board reading , the action was checked to Gary Clarke who fired 8,000. His opponent in the small blind made the call and the on the river was checked down.
Clarke tabled for a set and the small blind could only sigh, "Nice hand..." and revealed .
Set versus flopped top two pair sees Clarke up to 48,000 chips.
Brandon Davis is already up to the heady heights of 62,000 after he made a huge 15,000 river bet with a straight flush and got paid off by the top two pair of another player.
After one player limped in from early position, Paris Heard raised to 750. Then, Brian "tsarrast" Rast reraised to 1,650 and only Heard made the call.
With the board running out , Heard led out with bets on every street. He bet the flop for 2,100, the turn for 3,200, and the river for 3,200. Rast came along with a call each time.
At the showdown, Heard tabled two kings, . Rast showed pocket queens and lost the hand, dropping to 21,500 in the process. This was the third hand in a row where Heard held pocket kings. When he showed his hand, the entire table was in awe. He's now up to 42,000.
With the board reading , the action checked to Jonathan Tare who fired 1,000 into the middle. The cutoff player called before David Steicke put in a check-raise to 5,000. Tare folded, but then the cutoff reraised and made it 11,000 to go. Steicke made the call.
The river brought the and Steicke check-called the rather small 3,000 bet from his opponent, who tabled for a full house. Steicke mucked and slips back to 21,600.
A good start for Greg Raymer was undone when he check-called 2,500 on the turn and another 2,000 on the river of a board, only to muck when his opponent turned over for quads.
Raymer claimed an overpair; either way, he's now on 32,000, roughly his starting stack.
On a flop of , David Einhorn check-raised the bet of his opponent before firing 2,400 on the turn and 5,500 on the river.
His opponent made the call each time, and Einhorn tabled for a flush to rake in the chips. He's back above his starting stack once again with 33,200 chips.
It's been pretty quiet over on the two feature tables thus far. Most of the action going down on the main feature table is the tournament announcer making the calls of each hand.
"Brian folds, wait, not yet. Now he folds. Looks like I was right."
"Everyone folds and Mike [Matusow] wins the blinds and antes!"
"Plenty of seats in here folks, don't be shy."
"No flash photography please!"
Despite the lack of action though, both arenas are pretty much packed full of spectators.
A nice little pot for Alex Kravchenko, and he didn't even have to show his cards after making his opponent fold on the river.
Kravchenko and his opponent made it to see a flop with around 1,200 in the pot by then. Mr. Opponent checked it and Kravchenko bet 350. Undeterred, Mr. Opponent called.
Both players checked the turn and Mr. Opponent checked the river too. A 900 bet from Kravchenko, though, and Mr. Opponent gave it up, putting Kravchenko up to 33,000.