Isaac Haxton was the only player to call a bet of 1,200 on a flop of . He called another 2,200 on the turn and 3,200 on the river. At showdown, his opponent turned up an ace, , for aces and fours. Haxton rolled over for a full house to collect the pot.
Chino Rheem opened to 300 and found two callers to see a flop fall and Rheem check the action.
With Rheem's apparent weakness, one player fired out 650 and the other made the call, only to have Rheem check-raise to 2,100. The preflop aggressor made the call to take the hand heads up to the turn with the dealer dropping the .
Rheem fired out 3,800 and was again smooth-called before the river landed the .
Rheem shuffled some chips and paused for a moment before firing out 7,800 to prompt an eventual fold from his opponent to collect the pot and move to 36,000 in chips.
On the flop of , Alex Wadley got all the money in up against one other player. Wadley held the and was up against the for his opponent. After the turn came the and he river the , the aces went down and Wadley boomed his way to 65,500 in chips.
With around 2,500 in the pot and the flop reading , Ralph Perry fired out 1,000 from the button only to be check-raised to 2,000 by his opponent.
Perry paused for a moment before making it 6,000 to with his opponent quickly calling as the landed on the turn.
Perry's 8,000-chip bet was check-called as the dealer produced the on the river.
After yet another check, Perry moved all in for 16,100 and was called.
Perry:
Opponent:
Both players chopped the pot up, but Perry headed to break disgusted at his flush-draw freeroll as he moved back over his starting stack to around 33,000 in chips.
Just before the break, the ESPN cameras were rolling at the Orange Section feature table, where Players' Champion Michael Mizrachi was part of a three-way flop that he had raised to 500 pre-flop. Action checked to Mizrachi on a flop of . He continued for 750, folding one player. The third player then check-raised to 2,025. Mizrachi called.
The board paired sevens on the turn, . Mizrachi's opponent checked and called 2,025 on that street and another 6,000 on the river. That's when Mizrachi turned over to show down a full house, eights full of sevens. He's back to the starting stack of 30,000.