Ted Forrest was all in preflop with his tournament on the line with against the of his opponent.
Forrest had to wait for the ESPN cameras to capture the moment as the flop landed .
"Wow!" was all that Forrest could say as the flop was about as bad as it could be without pairing his opponent. With hearts and a jack added to the mix, it got worse as the hit the turn. Forrest realized he was down to just one card in the deck to save himself but it didn't arrive on the river. Forrest is eliminated.
Steven Burkholder called his opponent's all-in bet on the flop of with two black kings. His opponent held the . The turn was the and the river the . Burkholder's now up to 150,000 in chips.
One player checked the flop of to Ralph Perry. He fired a bet of 5,000 and Sandra Naujoks made the call. The other player folded.
The turn card brought the and Perry checked. Naujoks fired 5,000 and then Perry fired back a raise to 15,000. After a minute in the tank, Naujoks mucked her hand and dropped to 40,000. Perry moved up to 140,000.
On a flop of , Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis fired a bet of 1,800 which his opponent called, before the hit the turn. Karamalikis fired 4,000 but his opponent clicked it back to 8,000. Karamalikis called, and then again for another 8,000 on the river.
Karamalikis' opponent tabled for two pair which was good as Karamalikis mucked and slipped to 135,000.
With a raise to 1,500 from early position in front of him, Scotty Nguyen popped it up to 5,000 from middle position. His opponent responded by moving all in for about 40,000 with Nguyen happy to make the call.
Nguyen:
Opponent:
A cooler in favor of the "Prince of Poker" and he stayed ahead on the board. Nguyen is now up to 120,000.
On a flop of Jeff Fenech fired out 6,000 into a pot of slightly less.
His opponent in the cutoff bumped it up to 16,000 only to have Fenech respond with a three-bet to 41,000. The cutoff moved all in for 45,775 and Fenech made the call for the additional few thousand.
Fenech:
Opponent:
The turn and river landed the and to see Fenech double his opponent up while slipping to 31,000 in chips.
Daniel Alaei was all in preflop with , and that's not a very good thing when your opponent calls with .
There was an ace on the flop! But, unfortunately, also an eight. The board ran , and Alaei's day is done.
Daniel won another bracelet this year, his third overall, and that puts him in some fairly elite company. He won't be adding a fourth this year, though, not unless he plans on making the trip to London for the WSOPE in the fall.
Two more hours of poker are in the books at the WSOP Main Event and 729 of today's 2,412 starters have already seen their Main Event dreams come to an end. Two former world champions--Berry Johnston and Tom McEvoy--exited this level along with Andre Akkari, Liz Lieu, Amnon Filippi, David "The Dragon" Pham, and Haralabos Voulgaris.
On the other end of the spectrum, Dragan Galic and Robert Mizrachi are still one-two in the chip counts. This level saw the rise of Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who won a series of pots to take him up to 220,000 as well as Cole South, who doubled up with a set of aces over a set of nines to take his stack up to 223,000. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was also able to reclaim some lost chips, taking his stack from 50,000 to 97,000 in this level.
This break will be a bit longer than the usual 20 minutes, as there is a massive color-up scheduled. All of the green 25-denomination chips will be removed from play, so expect action to pick back up in about half an hour.
against the 
of his opponent.
.
hit the turn. Forrest realized he was down to just one card in the deck to save himself but it didn't arrive on the 
river. Forrest is eliminated.
with two black kings. His opponent held the 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
. Burkholder's now up to 150,000 in chips.
and Perry checked. Naujoks fired 5,000 and then Perry fired back a raise to 15,000. After a minute in the tank, Naujoks mucked her hand and dropped to 40,000. Perry moved up to 140,000.
, Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis fired a bet of 1,800 which his opponent called, before the 
hit the turn. Karamalikis fired 4,000 but his opponent clicked it back to 8,000. Karamalikis called, and then again for another 8,000 on the 
board. Nguyen is now up to 120,000.
and 
, and that's not a very good thing when your opponent calls with 
.
