Joe Awada was recently seen laying down 
to an opponent who had bet enough to put him all in. Awada, who only had 12,175, was consoled by the table that is was a good lay down.
"I know, you think I don't know that, he has only played one hand," Awada responded. The man was kind enough to show Awada that it was, in fact, a good laydown when he revealed pocket kings.
We caught Fatima de Melo firing 15k into a 23k pot on the river of a board reading 
. Her opponent called with 
for three pair, and de Melo couldn't beat it. She mucked and fell to 16,000.
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was in the big blind and called a bet of 1,500 from the small blind on the 
flop. The under the gun player then raised to 8,400, the small blind folded and Mizrachi made the call.
Both players checked the 
on the turn and the 
came on the river. Mizrachi led out for a bet of 20,000 and his opponent called. Mizrachi showed 
and took down the pot. He is back up to 97,000.
Leo Margets was all in for just more than 10,000 before the flop, and she was called down by a big-stacked opponent with . Margets turned up 
, and the race was on.
Margets left her opponent in the dust on a flop of 
, and the on the turn shot her out of her chair and into the arms of her Spanish media friends surrounding the table. The filled out the board, and Margets has found her double up, back to about 24,000.
Preflop action had built a pot of about 7,500 between Annie Duke (on the button) and her opponent in middle position. The flop came 
, Duke's opponent checked, she bet 6,500, and her opponent called.
The turn was the 
. The middle position player again checked, and Duke tossed out a bet of 13,500 this time. The action was back on her opponent, who after a short while declared he was all in for the 25,000 or so he had left. Duke didn't waste too much time letting her hand go.
Duke now has 84,000.
Over on the Orange Feature Table we found Jonathan Aguiar calling an opponent's all in.
Aguiar: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
to see Aguiar eliminate his opponent and approach 100,000 in chips.
By the turn, the pot was about 20,000 in chips between Yevgeniy Timoshenko and his opponent. The board read 
and action was checked to Timoshenko. He fired 12,000 before his opponent check-raised all in for 45,000. Timoshenko snapped him off holding the 
for a flush, with straight flush possibilities. His at-risk opponent held the 
and wasn't dead yet. He would need to pair the board on the river to double through. The river completed the board with the 
and Timoshenko's flush held up.
On the next hand, a player opened with a raise preflop to 1,500 from under the gun and Timoshenko flatted from middle position. The big blind came along as well to see the flop come down . The big blind and original raiser checked. Timoshenko fired a bet of 3,000. The big blind made the call and the other player folded.
The turn card produced the and the big blind checked. A bet from Timoshenko worth 7,500 was good enough to win him the pot. After all of this action, Timoshenko is now up to about 220,000 in chips.
If you don't know much about Timoshenko, here's a brief look at his career highlights. Timoshenko is the winner of the $25,000 WPT Championship in 2009 where he earned $2,149,960 for his victory. He has over $3.27 million in live tournament earnings and also won the World Championship of Online Poker's $5,200 Main Event in 2009 for over $1.7 million.
Ruben Visser got the last of his chips in on an 
flop and his opponent in the two seat made the call. Visser's queens were behind his opponent's and he didn't find any help on the 
turn. The moment the 
hit the river Visser bid a hasty retreat out of the Amazon Room.
A player under the gun raised to 1,500, and Peter Feldman made the call behind him. The small blind then made it 6,525 to go. The big blind folded, then the original raiser bumped it up again to 19,500.
Feldman -- who had about 100,000 to start the hand -- then declared he was reshoving all in. The small blind got out, but the UTG player called, thereby committing his entire stack of 70,925 to this one.
Feldman turned over while his opponent showed . The board came 
, and Feldman tumbles all of the way to 28,000.
Catching the action on the turn, Jonathan Karamalikis had a short-stacked opponent all in on a board of . His opponent tabled for trips but Karamalikis revealed 
for the flush.
The river bricked the and after starting the day with only around 20,000, Karamalikis is now up to a commanding 147,000 chips.
