Bryan Micon called a preflop raise of 1,700 and saw a flop of . He and his opponent checked the flop as the landed on the turn. Micon's opponent check-called a bet of 2,200 and the hit the river. Again Micon's opponent check-called, this time 2,625.
Micon tabled for trips and chipped up to 61,500.
A few hands later, though, Micon suffered a setback. A shorter stack was all in with against Micon's . The board ran out as Micon's aces failed to hold up.
On a board of and with 50,000 in the pot, a player in the big blind checked and from the cut off Jean-Robert Bellande bet enough to put his opponent all in. He called for his last 30,000.
Big Blind:
Bellande:
Bellande took down the pot with trip sixes and moved to 115,000.
After the hand was over a player at the table said that he wasn't expecting those hands to be turned over at the river. Replaying the preflop action for reporters, he told that Bellande opened with a raise, the big blind three bet and Bellande flat called.
With a big crowd on the rail and the ESPN cameras lurking we wandered over to the table to find Phil Ivey enjoying a massage and tossing 10,000 into the middle on a board of .
His opponent in the cutoff went into the tank for a long time as Ivey couldn't have appeared any more relaxed. Funny that, you'd think he'd done this a million times or something?
His opponent eventually to avoid a clash as the Ivey train rolls on. He's up to 90,000.
Lauren Kling opened from under the gun to 1,300 before Joanne Monteavaro made it 3,500 to go.
The action folded back round to Kling and after near on four minutes in the tank she pushed all in for around 14,000. Monteavaro insta-called and the cards were tabled.
Kling:
Monteavaro:
The board ran out to see Kling hit the rail as Monteavaro added some valuable chips to her stack.
Adam Latimer has had a marvellous start, upping his stack to 130,000 already.
The hand that did it:
Latimer opened with , as you do, and another gentleman three-bet. Latimer four-bet, Mr. Gentleman called, and they saw a flop. Latimer bet out and Mr. Gentleman called, and they saw a turn.
The turn was a very favourable and Latimer now checked. Mr. Gentleman bet 12,500, Latimer check-raised to 28,000, and finally Mr. Gentleman went all in for another 35,000 or so. Latimer called, and discovered that Mr. Gentleman was holding a mere for a gutshot, which absolutely failed to come in on the river. Oops.
Mr. Latimer is feeling pretty good about things now.
On the main feature table, Phil Hellmuth continues to chip up gradually. Just now he raised to 1,600 from early position, and all folded. He's at about 40,000 now. Meanwhile, Todd Witteles continues to look for a good spot to do something with his 10,000 or so.
On the secondary feature table, all folded, including Michael Mizrachi on the button, to Dennis Phillips who raised to 1,650 from the small blind, and Steven Maynard called from the big blind. The flop came , Phillips bet 2,700, and Maynard got out of the way. Phillips looks to be close to 80,000 now. Mizrachi has about half that with 40,000.
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On a flop of the action checked to John Monnette who fired 2,000 and his opponent called.
The turn was the and both checked before the peeled off on the river. The player in late position fired out 5,500 but Monnette raised it up to 15,500. His opponent called but mucked when Monnette tabled for the flush.