Action was heavy as four players saw a {5d flop. Ted Woolridge led out and was called by Jim Pechac and Andy Seth. Matt Lefkowitz answered with a raise on the button and and Woolridge moved all in. The turn and river got checked around and the players revealed their cards. Lefkowitz showed to win the sidepot with a pair of nines. Woolridge won the main pot with for the rivered nuts to more than quadruple up.
Josh Arieh raised to 5,000 from UTG before Ryan Himes made it 7,500 in middle position. Arieh called to see a flop which both players checked. Arieh immediately fired out 5,000 on the turn and Himes rechecked his cards before reluctantly folding.
Even though the players are in the money, most of the rail plus quite a few players were just sweating the final seconds of the NBA Finals game. Now that the game is over thought, the players can get back to playing and the rail can get back to railing
"Hollywood" Dave Stann raised from late position and got calls from Robert Mougous in the cutoff and Men Nguyen in the big blind.
The flop came Nguyen bet 2,500 and got calls from Stann and Mougous.
The turn was the Nguyen checked, Stann checked, Mougous tanked for a little bit and then bet out for 5,000 and got calls from Nguyen and Stann.
The river came the Nguyen bet 5,000, and Mougous went all in for his last 2,100, and got a call from Stann as well and the cards were flipped.
Stann: for an Ace-4 low and 1/4 of the pot leaving him with 56,000
Nguyen: for two pair, the high and 1/2 the pot leaving him with 65,000
Mougous: for an Ace-4 low and 1/4 of the pot leaving him with 11,500
Ted Lawson just tripled up to about 20,000 after his won on a board of against Men Nguyen's and Francesco Barbaro's . Nguyen won a small side pot as well to make up for the main pot loss.
To kick off the 42nd Annual World Series of Poker, the PokerNews crew got together for some fun in the sun. The girls chat to some of the PokerNews team to get their predictions for the series... With a few retakes required.
James Bord has temporarily disappeared from the tournament again to go back and play the $5,000 NL event despite now being in the money in this event. Don't forget to head over to Event #4 updates to see if he makes it through the day.