An extremely short-stacked JJ Liu raised from the small blind and Anh Le made it three bets from the big blind. Liu just called, leaving her self about one bet behind.
The flop was , and Liu checked to Le who bet. Liu made the call, putting her tournament life on the line with and would need help to best Le's .
The turn was gold for Liu, as the hit the felt catapulting Liu into the lead. The on the river was irrelevant and Liu has doubled up to about 80,000.
Domenico Denotaristefani raised from the button, and Anh Le called from the big blind.
The two of them took a heads-up flop of , and Le checked. When Denotaristefani bet, Le check-raised, but he came right back with a reraise. Le flat-called this time.
The turn came the , and Le fired right out into the pot. Denotaristefani just flatted now, and the filled out the board. Le checked and called one more bet, and Denotaristefani showed up the winning to take down that nice pot and move up into second place overall.
Al Barbieri raised it up UTG, and Albert Minnullin re-raised making it three bets. Brian Meinders, in the big blind further juiced the action making it four bets. Barbieri, pondered for a minute or two before releasing, and Minnullin made the call.
The flop was and Minullin check-called a bet from Meinders. The turn was the , and both players checked.
The river was the and this time Minullin led out for a bet, getting a call form Meinders who mucked his hand after he saw his opponents .
After the hand Albert Minnullin had about 460,000 while Meinders slipped to about 210,000.
It was folded around to Jeff Norman in the small blind who raised it up, with only 1 or 2 bets behind. Domenico Denotaristefani, sitting in the big blind made it three bets and the two sorted out exactly how many chips needed to be in the middle to get all of Norman's chips to the middle.
Showdown
Norman:
Denotaristefani:
The board was unkind to Norman, sliding out eliminating Norman from this World Series of Poker event.
JJ Liu opened with a raise from the cutoff seat, and Anh Le three-bet on the button. In the small blind, Julian Parmann made it four bets to play, enough to fold Liu. Le called the extra bet, and off they went heads up.
The flop came out, um, ...
"That's not possible," Liu astutely noted. The dealer nodded and called the floor, and Liu repeated, "No, I mean that's not possible. I'll tell you later." The table knew what that meant; one of her mucked cards had gotten scooped up into the flop.
The floor came over, and Liu explained that she had folded the . The dealer knew exactly how it happened, and he was 100% sure that the flop was correct minus the extra card. The flop was allowed to stand, and one more bet from Parmann was enough to fold Le and earn him the pot.
Anh Le raised and Domenico Denotaristefani made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop, and Denotaristefani check-called a bet from Le on the flop, the turn and the river.
There was just a ten- or fifteen-minute disturbance over on Table 336.
It started just as the final card was dealt to the players, and Jeff Norman casually said something along the lines of, "That might have flashed," pointing at Domenico Denotaristefani's second card in the big blind. He then retracted that statement, saying he couldn't see the card. The floor was called over to begin the long (and somewhat heated) arbitration process.
The floor person initially said it was going to be a misdeal, and Denotaristefani slid his cards into the middle of the table. The dealer then told the floor that the card didn't flash, and JJ Liu was adamant that the hand should play. A quick poll of the table indicated that nobody had seen the card, or even seen that it might have flashed. The floor then reversed the ruling, allowing the hand to play, and Liu opened with an under-the-gun raise.
That set Denotaristefani off, and it ended up requiring the assistance of two additional floormen. There was a huge back-and-forth between all five players at the table, the dealer, the three floor people, and even a few spectators on the rail. Everyone was chiming in with their different stories, and it wasn't a very clear situation to try and sort through. By now, the players from the other table were all poking their heads in to see what all the fuss was about.
Floor man Charlie went around the table to gather all of the information he could, and he too had a tough time making the decision. Denotaristefani was particularly agitated, almost yelling by this point. Finally, Charlie announced that the original ruling should stand, and that it would, in fact, be a misdeal. A few people were happy about it, a few were upset (most notably JJ Liu who obviously liked her hole cards), but either way, it's on to the next shuffle to try it all again. Without the card-flashing part.
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, and Liu checked to Le who bet. Liu made the call, putting her tournament life on the line with 
and would need help to best Le's 
.
hit the felt catapulting Liu into the lead. The 
on the river was irrelevant and Liu has doubled up to about 80,000.
, and Le checked. When Denotaristefani bet, Le check-raised, but he came right back with a reraise. Le flat-called this time.
, and Le fired right out into the pot. Denotaristefani just flatted now, and the 
filled out the board. Le checked and called one more bet, and Denotaristefani showed up the winning 
to take down that nice pot and move up into second place overall.
and Minullin check-called a bet from Meinders. The turn was the 
, and both players checked.
and this time Minullin led out for a bet, getting a call form Meinders who mucked his hand after he saw his opponents 
eliminating Norman from this World Series of Poker event.
flop, and Denotaristefani check-called a bet from Le on the flop, the 
river.
which bested Denotaristefani's 
.
and Parmann doubles up about 120,000.