David "The Dragon" Pham has been sent to the rail in a bit of a cooler of a hand as described to us by ex-PokerNews reporter, turned poker phenom Anthony Yeh (so we're certain it's 100% accurate!).
A middle position player tossed out 325 with the intention to raise, but with the blinds now at 100/200, he was forced to make it 400 to play. Yeh called as did Pham in the big blind.
They saw a flop of and action checked around. The turn was a repeat and it was checked around again. However on the river, Pham checked to the preflop raiser who tossed out 1,150. Yeh folded but Pham wasn't done with quite yet. He check-raised and made it 3,500 to go. His opponent them moved all in to put Pham to a decision for his tournament.
Pham went into the tank for a long time before making the call with for a full house, but he'd been trumped by his opponent's for jacks full of aces. Pham is out.
Raj "BadCardsAA" Vohra tracked us down and told us about this hand. He raised to 400 and found three callers.
The flop came down , and Vohra continued out with a bet of 1,100. Two of his opponent called this time, while the third ducked out of the way.
The turn was a repeat , and Vohra knocked the table. Kevin Saul fired out 2,100, drawing a raise to 5,100 from Vohra and scaring the third player out of the pot. Saul called the additional amount to see the last card.
It was a , and Saul called one last bet of 6,500. Vohra turned up pocket aces, and Saul slid his cards into the muck, unable to beat that hand. That crippled Saul, and he was eliminated a few hands later.
Nenad Medic was all in against David Baker by the time we walked up to a turned board showing , and both players held ace-queen. It was a dangerous situation for Baker, though, as Medic's was on a flush draw and freerolling for the pot.
Sure enough, the river came the , filling in that flush and doubling The Serb up to about 22,000.
Nick "FU_15" Maimone had a great start to his day, but he's out after two back-to-back hands went poorly for him.
On the first, we walked up to see Amnon Filippi move all in for 12,450 on a board of . Maimone made the call for nearly all of his own chips, and he would not like the result. Despite having "turned the nuts" as he said, Filippi won the hand with , rivering the flush to knock Maimone down to just 1,700.
On the next hand, Maimone got his money in good with against Josh Tieman's , and things looked rosy through the flop. The turn was a disaster, though, and the river added a little insult to injury as Maimone headed for the door.
Eric Froehlich opened with a raise to 400 from under the gun and found one caller in middle position before Brian Rast made it 1,750 to go from the big blind. Froehlich made the call as the third player stepped aside.
The flop landed and Rast led out for 2,700. Froehlich made the call. The turn was the and Rast fired again for 6,000. Froehlich announced a raise which was big enough to put Rast all in. He obliged with a call and the cards were on their backs:
Froehlich:
Rast:
The river was the the and Rast's kings hold up to collect the huge pot to climb to 46,800. Froehlich is left with 7,800.
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and action checked around. The turn was a repeat 
and it was checked around again. However on the 
river, Pham checked to the preflop raiser who tossed out 1,150. Yeh folded but Pham wasn't done with quite yet. He check-raised and made it 3,500 to go. His opponent them moved all in to put Pham to a decision for his tournament.
for a full house, but he'd been trumped by his opponent's 
for jacks full of aces. Pham is out.
, and Vohra continued out with a bet of 1,100. Two of his opponent called this time, while the third ducked out of the way.
, and Saul called one last bet of 6,500. Vohra turned up pocket aces, and Saul slid his cards into the muck, unable to beat that hand. That crippled Saul, and he was eliminated a few hands later.
, and both players held ace-queen. It was a dangerous situation for Baker, though, as Medic's 
was on a flush draw and freerolling for the pot.
, filling in that flush and doubling The Serb up to about 22,000.
, rivering the flush to knock Maimone down to just 1,700.
against Josh Tieman's 
was a disaster, though, and the river 
and Rast fired again for 6,000. Froehlich announced a raise which was big enough to put Rast all in. He obliged with a call and the cards were on their backs:
. He's been eliminated, and Rosenblum has climbed to 30,500.
