Humberto Brenes
Humberto Brenes raised to 750 from middle position, and the table folded around to the gentleman in the cutoff who after some thought finally tossed out the chips to call.
"No! No, sir! Why?" cried Brenes with a grin. The remaining players all folded. "Okay," Brenes exhaled, glad enough he only had one caller. "One to one!"
The flop came . Brenes removed one of the plastic sharks from his stack and began to grab some chips, then rapped the table. His opponent checked as well. Both also checked the turn and river.
Brenes' opponent showed for nines. Brenes tabled his . "Why, sir?" Brenes asked again with a big grin.
Catching the action on a flop of a player from under the gun fired out a bet of 1,500 and Tony Hachem made the call in middle position.
The play was then with the player on the button who raised it up to make it 6,000 to go. The under-the-gun player called before Hachem then raised once again to make it 20,000 to go.
The button chirped, "Did you hit a set? A set of Kings?" and tanked before folding what was later revealed as , once the UTG player also folded.
Hachem showed for a set of tens and collected the pot to move up to 47,100 in chips.
Andrew Wiggins thought his was good when he check-raised all in on the turn on a board of . However he quickly discovered he was in trouble when his opponent snap-called with .
Needing a king to survive....boom the spiked on the river to give Wiggins a full house and the pot. He's now up to 72,500 in chips.
Jason Somerville has dropped right down to 26,000, in the process putting Loïc Bellabarba back up to 110,000.
Bellabarba raised to 1,650 preflop and Somerville called behind to see a flop. Bellabarba check-called 2,250 from Somerville, and they saw a turn, which they both checked.
Come the river Bellabarba checked again and now just flat-called 3,800 from Somerville. Bellabarba flipped over for a backdoor flush, and Somerville mucked his hand.
Nicolas Levi - Sans Hat
Nicolas 'Hatpimp' Levi is one of the early chip leaders having already breached the 100,000 mark.
A regular on the EPT circuit, Levi had just folded in an interesting hand just now. He had raised to 800 and been called by a player in middle position before the button reraised to 3,300. Levi called but then the middle position player decided to reraise to 10,500.
The button quickly folded and Levi folded afterwards after some thought.
An early position player raised to 750 before Lika Gerasimova made it 2,250 to go from late position. The cutoff player called as the EP player stepped aside.
The flop fell and Gerasimova fired 2,700. Her bet found a call.
The turn was the and both players checked to see the fall on the river. Gerasimova checked, her opponent bet 5,125 and Gerasimova then announced a raise to make it 14,500 to go. Her opponent then announced that he was all in. Gerasimova only had 16,000 behind but decided to give it up.
Donnie Peters
"Ship me my beef jerky!" yelled out a player from one of the tables in the orange section. Mike Johnson just showed his quad jacks on a board of . His was good enough to earn him the pot and the $100 gift package from Jack Link's.
With around 3,000 in the pot on the board, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan fired out 1,850 when it was checked to him by three players.
One player in the small blind made it 3,700 to go, and once it was folded to Dwan, he made the call.
The turn landed the and when faced with a 4,000-chip bet, Dwan pushed the action to 25,000 total. His opponent moved all in and Dwan double-fist-pump-snap called.
Dwan:
Opponent:
With Dwan holding the nut-straight with a flush-draw, the meaningless would land on the river to see Dwan shipped the pot to move to 71,000 as his opponent took a long walk home.