Yuta Motoyama raised to 12,000 from the hijack position. In the small blind, David Villegas announced he was all in for 54,000 more. Not to be outdone, Eric Zuerndorfer also committed his entire stack to the pot. Motoyama folded and the blinds were left to battle it out.
Villegas:
Zuerndorfer:
Zuerndorfer had Villegas dominated, but that was only to last for a moment. The flop brought along with the on the turn and the on the river.
Zuerndorfer is hurting, and VIllegas finds himself above the average stack size.
The players at Table 372 are playing extra cautiously. In the past dozen hands, there has been one flop. It seems a preflop raise is enough to swipe the blinds and antes for now.
Yuta Motoyama just bounced back in a big way after slipping a bit in the previous hand.
David Patent opened to 16,000 from under the gun and the action folded to Motoyama who called in middle position. The remaining players folded and the two went heads-up to the flop.
The dealer flopped and Patent check-called a 25,000 chip bet from Motoyama. The turn came the , pairing the board, and again Patent check-called Motoyama. This time the amount was 30,000.
The river brought the and Patent checked for a third time. Motoyama instantly announced, "All in."
Faced with a 58,500 chip bet, Patent went deep into the tank. He cut out T5000 and T1000 chips to make the call and paused, staring into space. Finally he slid them past the point of no return and Motoyama quickly tabled for a full-house.
Patent showed for just a pair of tens and his stack shrunk all the way down to 105,000 chips. Concurrently, Motoyama's ballooned over a quarter-million chips.
Eric Zuerndorfer was left with only 60,000 chips after doubling up David Villegas. Unfortunately for Zuerndorfer, Villegas wasn't done with him quite yet.
Villegas bumped it to 20,000 from middle position and Zuerndorfer took some time to contemplate the situation before going all in. Action folded back to Villegas who was quick to call.
Zuerndorfer:
Villegas:
The flop gave Villegas the lead when it came . Zuerndorfer's fate was sealed with the on the turn.
There has finally been a big hand at Table 372. Kenyon Mckellar raised to 18,000, only to have David Fischer push all in for 51,000 total. Mckellar made the call:
Mckellar
Fischer
The flop gave Mckellar the lead. Fischer prepared to make his exit when the hit on the turn. An irrelevant came on the river. Fischer is over 100,000 while Mckellar has been knocked down to 31,000.
Kent Washington raised to 18,000 from middle position. When it was folded around to David Villegas, he re-raised Washington to a total of 78,000. Washington took a long time to consider his option, but he eventually folded.
David VIllegas has been playing aggressively and is climbing through the chip count.
There has been a lot of raise-folding at Table 364, but not a ton of three-betting. Don't worry though, Brian Phillis just broke that trend.
Action folded to Matt Hollinger in the high jack position and he opened to 15,000. Phillis, sitting right next to him in the cutoff, pushed a large stack forward re-raising to 50,000.
"Ace-king?" Hollinger asked.
Phillis didn't even flinch and finally Hollinger gave up, folding his cards.
Two consecutive hands got the best of Kenyon Mckellar and were enough to eliminate him in 16th place.
In the first hand Jeffrey Bennett moved all in when action was folded to him in the small blind. Kenyon Mckellar was in the big blind and tanked for a good four minutes and muttered, "I know I have you beat" before calling. Unfortunately for Mckellar, he was wrong.
Mckellar:
Bennett:
Mckellar made a king-high straight, but was bested by Bennet's flush on a board that read .
Mckellar was down to about 18,000 chips, and on the very next hand called Barry Hulunian's raise,to 19,000, putting himself all in.
Mckellar:
Hulunian:
The flop came down . Neither the on the turn nor the on the river were any help to Mckellar, who was left without any chips.
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along with the 
on the turn and the 
on the river.
and Patent check-called a 25,000 chip bet from Motoyama. The turn came the 
and Patent checked for a third time. Motoyama instantly announced, "All in."
for a full-house.
for just a pair of tens and his stack shrunk all the way down to 105,000 chips. Concurrently, Motoyama's ballooned over a quarter-million chips.
. Zuerndorfer's fate was sealed with the 
on the turn.
flop gave Mckellar the lead. Fischer prepared to make his exit when the 
came on the river. Fischer is over 100,000 while Mckellar has been knocked down to 31,000.
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and Lee was sent home in 17th place.
on the turn nor the 
on the river were any help to Mckellar, who was left without any chips.