'Miami' John Cernuto just chopped one up. I joined the action on sixth street, Cernuto claling two consecutive bets before showing two pair. His opponent took the other half with an eight low.
Jim Collopy's opponent bet out on seventh street and Collopy raised; his opponent reraised and Collopy called.
"Oh, I've got a straight flush," said his opponent in a terribly nonchalant tone. "First five cards," he continued, but the lie was betrayed by the giggle in his voice. "First six," he qualified.
Collopy and his wheel had to settle for just the low and the dealer chopped up the pot.
"Hey where's my half?" Collopy's opponent protested. "He took it all, I didn't get any."
This was of course untrue and both play and banter continued, Collopy at 14,300.
D'Agostino's full house and the unknown player's 6-5-4-3-2 low were best and Williams could not show anything better, ending his tournament just before the end of Level 7.
John D'Agostino is up to about 23,000 after the hand.
Just a few minutes after his crippling and subsequent tripling, Team PokerStars Pro Pat Pezzin finally succumbed.
His cards read by the end - that's three pair, or two pair if you're going to play by the rules - and although we didn't quite catch the assassin's hand we did notice that it contained a minimum of two aces and two jacks for a better two pair.
With 280 of the original 644 remaining there are still a smattering of big names left in the field including Tom Dwan, Jeff Lisandro and Men Nguyen, to name but a few. Also still alive are Phil Ivey and John Juanda, both of whom who have around the 15,000 mark.
The two multiple bracelet winners are also receiving simultaneous massages, and have been virtually all day. I don't witness too many at the table, but Ivey is receiving a barefoot massage with a sheet of paper underneath his foot (to protect Ivey's skin from the grubby floor?), and his shoe (likely made of alligators, freshly caught this morning) lying nearby.
We strolled by Pat Pezzin's table just in time to see most ofhis chips being shipped across the table. He looked down at his remaining 600 with a wry smile.
Next hand, though, the smile was somewhat less wry, as he tripled up with trip sixes to put him back up to a still short but slightly more manageable 2,000. The long grind continues for the Event #21 finalist.
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by the end - that's three pair, or two pair if you're going to play by the rules - and although we didn't quite catch the assassin's hand we did notice that it contained a minimum of two aces and two jacks for a better two pair.