John Nguyen opened the pot to 20,000 from the cutoff seat before William McMahon moved all in for 58,000 in the next seat over. Action came to Samuel Trickett, and he made the call all in for his last 40,000 as well. Let's have a three-way showdown, shall we?
Nguyen:
McMahon:
Trickett:
Our intrepid field reporter was momentarily distracted him from catching the board, but king-nine got there with one pair, moving McMahon up to 130,000. That knocks both Nguyen and Trickett out of the tournament, and the big board says 35 players remain.
Two key races just took place in the Amazon Room, one with Scott Hamilton and Jeff "YoungSupremacy" Hakim and the other with Eric "AvrilSharapova" Ladny and Alex Bolotin.
Hamilton and Hakim were all in preflop and the hands were opened:
Showdown
Hamilton:
Hakim:
The board ran and Hamilton's threes held doubling him to 445,000 chips. Hakim is left with just 83,000.
Moments later Ladny and Bolotin got all the chips in the center and it was another race.
Showdown
Ladny:
Bolotin:
Again the pocket pair held after the board ran . Ladny doubled to 540,000 chips and Bolotin dropped to 270,000.
David Newcomer was all in preflop for about 85,000, and he was put to the test by David Randall. Newcomer passed. He turned up , and he was in fine shape against the of Randall.
The flop was awfully scary for the at-risk Newcomer as it came out to give his opponent an open ender. If the flop was scary, the turn was just heart-stopping as the gave Randall another eight outs to the spade flush.
Somehow, the river was a blank , and Newcomer fades the outs to double his way up to about 180,000. Randall has slipped to 465,000.