It's not often a player makes a big hand in five in stud and manages to get value for it. Scott Seiver recently made a straight in five against Alessio Isaia and had the opportunity to put a fourth bet into the pot on sixth street. Isaia called the last raise, then check-called one bet on the river. He mucked after seeing Seiver's hand.
Isaia is down to 105,000, while that sizable pot gave Seiver a boost to 110,000.
"The longest journey begins with a single step," said Doyle Brunson as he collected a pot from Eric Buchman. Brunson bet fourth street after Buchman checked to him, bet fifth street and was all in on sixth street. Buchman came every step of the way.
"Do you have two pair?" Buchman asked when the players turned their cards up on sixth street. Brunson did not; he had only a pair of threes. At the river Brunson, however, Brunson made two pair, queens and threes, to beat Buchman's rivered pair of tens.
The pot doubled Brunson up to 42,000. The loss was only a small dent in Buchman's chip fortress. He's down to 220,000.
We saw Justin Smith all in against Matt Glantz. Smith started with and was up against split nines, . By the river, Glantz had caught three nines, and the only draw that Smith had to beat him was to a ten-high straight -- needing a nine. Smith didn't catch his one-outer. He's out, and Glantz is up to 93,000.
David Bach found himself all in against Men Nguyen on third street with the following boards rolling out.
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With Bach unable to improve on his pair of nines, Nguyen kings-up would take the pot to see him climb to over 150,000 as Bach packed up his belongings and head to the rail.
It's been a roller-coaster day for Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Although he's never been in danger of busting, he also hasn't been able to accumulate a huge stack and had remained slightly below par for most of the day. It seems that nothing is coming easy today for Negreanu but he's maintaining his usual good humor while battling it out.
The only other remaining Team PokerStars Pro in this $10,000 championship event is one of Negreanu's fellow Canadians, Pat Pezzin. Pezzin is currently sitting behind 88,000 and seems intently focused on the task at hand -- making the all-important final table tomorrow.
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. By the river, Glantz had caught three nines, and the only draw that Smith had to beat him was to a ten-high straight -- needing a nine. Smith didn't catch his one-outer. He's out, and Glantz is up to 93,000.
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to improve his hand to trip queens.