The Dragon Puffs Out
David Pham recently hit the rail after his was unable to improve against an opponent's pocket tens.
Bill Chen, Steve O'Dwyer and reigning WSOP Champion Joe Cada were also recent victims.
David Pham recently hit the rail after his was unable to improve against an opponent's pocket tens.
Bill Chen, Steve O'Dwyer and reigning WSOP Champion Joe Cada were also recent victims.
Three players, Nam Le, Steve "gboro780" Gross and a player in Seat 10 saw a flop of .
Le checked to Gross who bet 4,600. The gentleman in Seat 10 called and so too did Le.
The turn brought the and both Le and Gross checked. The player in Seat 10 bet 6,000, Le folded and Gross moved all in for about 14,000 total.
"Oh damn," said the man in Seat 10. "I call."
Gross tabled for a turned set of deuces.
"I'm drawing dead," Gross' opponent said as he stormed from the table.
We never saw the gentleman's cards, and after the rivered Gross was awarded the the 43,000 chip pot.
Andy Bloch is freerolling for $25,000. All he has to do is eat 24 cupcakes in the next hour and a half without throwing up during or ten minutes after completion.
Erik Seidel and Howard Lederer teamed up on the bet and are splitting it fifty-fifty.
The prop bet started because Bloch was given two boxes of massive cupcakes for his 41st birthday today. The bet has quickly caught the attention of nearly everyone in the room. Phil Hellmuth quickly ran over to twitpic Bloch scarfing down his first cupcake and players at adjacent tables are all giving their two cents.
"I can't wait until he gets twelve deep and gives up," said one player.
"I could to that easy!" blurted Scott Seiver.
We'll keep you updated on Bloch's status and hopefully we wont need a vomit bag.
After a cutoff raise to 800 and a button raise to 2,500, Nick Binger pushed his last 5,950 into the middle.
The original raiser passed but the three-bettor made the call.
Binger:
Opponent:
The final board of saw Binger outdrawn and sent to the rail.
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Over on table 20 we find David "Chino" Rheem in great shape with 55,000 in chips of the 150,000 that are in play.
His table is also four-handed already which means that he is only three eliminations away from making day two and the money.
Neil Channing entered the pot with a raise to 1,000 and was met with a call by Scott Seiver before an opponent three-bet to 3,200.
With the action back on Channing he pushed his last 8,050 into the pot to prompt a fold from Seiver and a call from the three-bettor.
Channing:
Opponent:
The board rolled out before the dealer dropped the on the river to give Channing Broadway.
"Baby! What happened there? That never happens" added a delighted Channing as he completed his straight on the river to double through to 17,700 in chips.
Brandon Adams checked to Justin Young with the board reading . Young bet 1,500 and Adams called.
Both players checked the on the turn and the dealer burned a card before rivering the .
Adams checked a third time and Young bet 2,800. Adams called and Young tabled a busted flush draw: . Adams tabled the winner, and raked the pot to climb to 39,000 chips.
Young is still the table leader with 45,000.
After strolling round the room we found Jeff Lisandro's chair empty and consequently spoke to one of his tablemates on the details of his bustout.
Holding , Lisandro saw all his chips enter the pot on a ten-high board, but unfortunately saw his opponent make the call and table .
The turn and river blanked out and Lisandro hit the rail.
We missed the exact action of the hand, but we know Phil Gordon opened preflop and Jonathan Little called out of the big blind.
The flop fell X and Little open shoved. Gordon called tabling aces and Little opened for an open-ended straight draw.
Unfortunately for Gordon a queen turned, eliminating him from the tournament.
On the very next hand, Little gave some of those chips away when Taylor “GreenPlastic” Caby doubled through him.
Little is down to 16,000 chips and Caby sits with 22,000.