Joe Hachem hasn't been able to get much going today, and his day keeps heading in the wrong direction after he was just quartered in a hand of Omaha-8.
Hachem limped in from early position, and then called a raise along with the two blinds to see a flop of . Play checked to the preflop aggressor who fired a bet. The small blind and Hachem made the call.
The turn was the and it checked to Hachem who fired a bet. His opponent raised to force a fold from the small blind, as Hachem called off his last chips.
Hachem:
Opponent:
The river was the and Hachem's opponent takes the low as both players chop the high with queens up. Hachem is down to just 2,400.
Phil Hellmuth has tripled up in a hand of Stud-8. He was all in on fifth street against George Danzer and ended up making a full house with aces full of threes to scoop and more than double up.
More confusion and more arguments from the table of spite, located directly in the middle of the blue section of the Amazon Room. They've been in the fireworks all day, and now the floor had to be called twice in this one hand of Razz.
On fourth street Maria Ho had the action showing for a nine but the dealer was a little confused and directed the action to the of Tim Marsters. Ho started tapping the table to point the dealer to her nine, however her two opponents thought she was tapping the table to check, and they quickly checked behind.
"Noooo!" exclaimed Ho. "I didn't check yet!"
The floor was called and amongst the confusion Ho was given her options back. She bet and Marsters was the lone caller.
Things went back to normal on fifth with Ho leading the better, before Marsters led on sixth.
On seventh, Marsters thought the action was on Ho and he said "You check?". Ho thought that Marsters himself had checked and she checked behind. Marsters then fired out a bet. Enter more confusion. The floor was again called and Marsters was allowed to bet, with Ho making the call.
Ho: (-X) /
Marsters: () /
Marsters could only make a jack-ten low, and we didn't catch Ho's last card but she didn't need it as she already had the best hand. Ho moves up to 15,000 with Marsters down to 4,200.
"Ok, I'm just going to stand at this table all evening," chuckled the tournament director.
Dan Shak has been sent to the rail at the hands of Sorel Mizzi. The game was Stud and Shak could only make a pair of nines as Mizzi took the pot with aces and sixes.
Catching the action on a flop of , play was checked through to Justin Smith who fired a bet. Scott Seiver put in a check-raise before Smith made it three bets. Seiver called, and then check-called on the turn and the river.
Smith opened for a rivered full house as Seiver mucked in digust.
"Are you f**king kidding me?!?" exclaimed Seiver as he claimed to have mucked .
Smith is up to 21,000 with Seiver back down to 17,000.
Preflop, Steve Zolotow raised it up before Andy Bloch put in the three-bet. Zolotow called and they saw a flop of . Zolotow checked, Bloch bet and Zolotow called on the flop, turn and river.
Zolotow tabled for the low as Bloch turned a set with for the high. Chop it up! Zolotow is at 9,000 with Bloch at 17,000.
The players are back in their seats to play two more levels until we're done for the evening. By our calculations that means we should be out of here at around 2:45am.
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. Play checked to the preflop aggressor who fired a bet. The small blind and Hachem made the call.
and it checked to Hachem who fired a bet. His opponent raised to force a fold from the small blind, as Hachem called off his last chips.
and Hachem's opponent takes the low as both players chop the high with queens up. Hachem is down to just 2,400.
for a nine but the dealer was a little confused and directed the action to the 
of Tim Marsters. Ho started tapping the table to point the dealer to her nine, however her two opponents thought she was tapping the table to check, and they quickly checked behind.
-X) / 
, play was checked through to Justin Smith who fired a bet. Scott Seiver put in a check-raise before Smith made it three bets. Seiver called, and then check-called on the 
river.
for a rivered full house as Seiver mucked in digust.
.
turn and 
for the high. Chop it up! Zolotow is at 9,000 with Bloch at 17,000.
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