A five-way Stud-8 hand is a poker reporter's worst nightmare, so we'll do our best to recount the hand that led to the recent elimination of John D'Agostino.
We caught the action on fifth street and D'Agostino was already all in when we arrived at the table. Hani Awad led the betting with Phil Galfond and Jeff Lisandro making the call before Scott Fischman raised. All three opponents made the call.
Lisandro paired his board on sixth street and took control, but Fischman was again the aggressor on the river. Awad and Galfond released as Lisandro made the call.
Fischman was the only one to show as he revealed an eight-high straight and seventy-six low to scoop. D'Agostino mucked and hit the rail as Fischman moved up to 95,000.
Action folded to Erick Lindgren in the small blind, and stuck in a raise. Brian Townsend three-bet, and Lindgren called to see the flop. E-dog bet out, and Townsend called. Both checked the turn. When the on the river completed flush and straight draws, Lindgren checked again. Townsend tried to take it with a bet, but Lindgren raised. Townsend gave up, shipping the chips in Lindgren's direction. Erick is up to 91,000, while Townsend slipped to 55,000.
David Oppenheim was short and called off his last chips in a hand of stud against Nick Schulman. We caught the action on fifth street with Schulman leading the betting. Oppenheim called and again on sixth, before betting the river. Schulman raised an Oppenheim called all in.
Schulman: () /
Oppenheim: (X-X-X) /
Trip tens for Schulman was good to collect the pot and eliminate Oppenheim from the tournament.
Soheil Shamseddin raised from middle position, and on the button, Vitaly Lunkin raised. Kirk Morrison called out of the small blind, and Shamseddin called the extra bet. The flop fell , and action checked to Lunkin. He bet in position, and after Morrison folded, Shamseddin called. The turn put four spades on the board. Soheil bet at it, and Lunkin called. Shamseddin bet again after the river, and Lunkin gifted him one more bet. Shamseddin tabled for a flopped set with no spades, and Lunkin mucked his own spadeless hand on his way down to one big blind. Soheil moved the other direction to 71,000.
The players are now taking their first twenty-minute break of the day. Interestingly, we lost roughly 60 players in that two hour session, which is only a handful less than we lost throughout all of the day yesterday.
Sorel Mizzi raised from under the gun before Cyndy Violette re-raised from the small blind. Mizzi put in the four-bet for his last chips and Violette made the call.
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The flop landed and Violette took the lead with two pair, but the turn and river gave Mizzi a wheel for the scoop.
"Unbelievable!" exclaimed Violette, "That's such a sick beat."
Violette is back down to 11,000 with Mizzi at 22,000.
Dave Baker: (X-X) / / (X)
Marco Traniello: (X-X) / / (X)
We caught up with the action when Traniello opened with a bet on sixth street, and Dave "not Bakes" Baker called, leaving himself a single 100 chip behind. Traniello bet again on seventh, and Baker looked at his down card and folded, preserving that single chip.
Not surprisingly, Baker was out before we could type this hand. In the last hour, we've gone from two David Bakers to none. At least we've only gone from two Traniellos to one. Marco Traniello is up to 110,000.
Eugene Katchalov completed the action on third street with Al Barbieri making the call. Katchalov fired again on fourth and fifth streets, before Barbieri led the action on sixth. On the river, both players checked it down.
Katchalov: (X-X-X) /
Barbieri: () /
Barbieri makes a seventy-six to collect the pot as Katchalov mucked. Katchalov is at 86,000 while Barbieri is making a surge towards the chip lead with 159,000.
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on the river completed flush and straight draws, Lindgren checked again. Townsend tried to take it with a bet, but Lindgren raised. Townsend gave up, shipping the chips in Lindgren's direction. Erick is up to 91,000, while Townsend slipped to 55,000.
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