Steve Sung raised to 4,800 before the draw, and Matt Perrins three-bet shoved for 19,100 total. Sung spent some time considering before making the call with his covering stack. Each player drew one card.
Perrins turned over as he waited for his draw, and Sung showed . "I hope you pair," he said. Sure enough, Perrins pulled a from the deck. Now he needed Sung to pair, but a from the deck gave Sung the winning ten-seven to send Perrins packing.
On his way out the door, Perrins patted his fellow-Brit and table mate Sam Trickett on the shoulder and wished him luck.
Jeffrey Lisandro tossed out a raise from under the gun and Brandon Cantu made it 9,800 to go from the small blind. Lisandro re-raised all in for 25,600 more and Cantu made the call.
Cantu stood pat and tabled . Lisandro drew one, though, showing but was unable to catch up when he flipped up a . This pot boosts Cantu up to around 133,000 in chips.
Well, the table of awesome has lost its first player.
Nikolay Evdakov opened to 9,700 under the gun, and it was all he had left. David Williams called from the small blind, and he patted his . Evdakov needed to draw one, showing up ... to send him to the rail.
From the button Nikolay Evdakov made it 3,500. Phil Hellmuth three-bet from the big blind up to 10,000 and Evdakov made the call. Both players drew one card and Hellmuth checked to Evdakov. Evdakov fired out 8,000 and Hellmuth called.
Evdakov showed to Hellmuth, saying "I drew your hand!". Hellmuth showed an ace and it was good enough to beat Evdakov's pair of nines.
We missed most of the hand, but a big pot just went from Shaun Deeb to Joe Cassidy. There was more than 100,000 in the pot when we saw Cassidy table , and a frustrated Deeb smacked his cards onto the felt face-down. We think he said he had , but that's just conjecture. Either way, his hand was second-best, and Cassidy climbs to about 145,000 courtesy of that pot.
David Williams raised to 4,000 from early position and was called by Mercier from the hijack and Phil Hellmuth from the small blind. Hellmuth drew one, Williams took two, and after drawing one, Mercier tossed out a bet of 6,800.
"Must be nice, buddy" Hellmuth said as he sent his cards into the muck. Williams made the call but was behind the of Mercier. This pot boosts Mercier's stack up to 100,000 while sending Williams down to 44,000
as he waited for his draw, and Sung showed 
. "I hope you pair," he said. Sure enough, Perrins pulled a 
from the deck gave Sung the winning ten-seven to send Perrins packing.
to Hellmuth, saying "I drew your hand!". Hellmuth showed an ace and it was good enough to beat Evdakov's pair of nines.
