Bill Chen raised from the small blind and before his chips even hit the felt, Phil Ivey three-bet from the big blind. Chen called and they saw a flop. Chen check-called Ivey's bet, then check-raised when the hit the turn. The river was the and Chen bet out. Ivey called.
Chen showed for aces and deuces with a queen kicker. Ivey mucked, and is down to 14,500.
We walked up too late to see all of the action, but we did see a pot of more than 100,000 chips get pushed to Jameson Painter. They were pushed away from Jeffrey Lisandro, the Aussie losing that big pot after turning a set of tens. Painter had flopped a set of aces, though, and a healthy exchange of bets and raises dropped Lisandro all the way down to just 12,000.
Painter figures to be in the top five now as he stacked up 149,000 chips after that hand.
Kyle Ray raised preflop, and Vitaly Lunkin defended his big blind.
The two men took a flop of , and Lunkin check-called a bet. He check-called another one when the paired the board on fourth street, and that brought out the on the river. Lunkin checked again, and this time he decided to save a few chips as he folded to one last bet from Ray.
Simon Morris opened for a raise from UTG+1 and Tom Dwan called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Dwan check-called a bet from Morris. Dwan checked again when the hit the turn, Morris bet, and Dwan called. The river was the and Dwan check-called one more time.
"Top set," said Morris as he table for the win. He's up to 196,000 and the new chip leader while Dwan is down to 56,000.
Christoph Kwan raised from early position, and Phil Ivey was the lone caller, matching the extra bet from the big blind to see a flop.
It came out , and Ivey check-raised a Kwan bet. Kwan called, and the turn came the . Ivey fired out the full bet, Kwan raised to two bets, and Ivey called. Mr. Ivey check-called one last bet on the river.
Kwan showed up for the overpair, and it was good. Ivey rechecked his cards, then checked them again and flung them high into the air and straight onto the muck. That slip moves him back to 50,400.
Todd and Doyle Brunson have just been broken onto the same table again, for the second day in a row. They weren't very happy about it yesterday, and they're not particularly thrilled today either.
Still, the table breaks are random, and for now we get the watch the Brunson Duo playing together again.
Vitaly Lunkin raised in early position, and David Benyamine called from the button.
The two of them went to a flop of , and Benyamine got the rest of his very short stack into the pot with a meager . Lunkin looked him up with , and Benyamine was drawing dead by the time the hit fourth street. The river ushered him out the door, and Lunkin picks his way up to about 72,000.