On a flop that read , the player in the big blind, Matt Jarvis and the player on the button all checked around before the dealer produced the turn of the .
The big blind checked again to Jarvis, who led out for 2,500, leaving about the same behind. The button called, as did the big blind and then the big blind checked again on the river of the . Jarvis checked to the button who bet the pot, forcing the big blind out of the way before Jarvis called all-in.
However, the button mucked and the 2010 WSOP Main Event eighth-place finisher doubled up after he tabled for the straight.
David "Devilfish" Ulliott limped under the gun only to have the next player to act raise it to 1,800. Action folded back around to Devilfish and he made the call. Both players proceeded to check the flop, as well as the turn. When the peeled off on the river, Devilfish bet a modest 1,500 and his opponent made the call.
Devilfish rolled over for trip aces, which was good enough to win the pot. Ulliott is up to 19,000.
On a board of David "Bakes" Baker checked, the player in the big blind bet 2,200 and Phil Galfond in the cutoff called. Bakes however may have been stronger than he let on at first and he check-raised the pot to about 10,000. Both players folded and he took down the pot. Galfond is down to around 15,000 but after that nice little check-raise, Bakes is up to around 25,000
As we wandered past table 11, 2005 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem let out an anguished cry and started berating a player on table six.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Hachem cried. The player on table six looked up from his iPad and smiled, as did Hachem. Turns out that it was all in jest, only because the table six player had beaten him at another hand of Chinese Poker (yes, there's an app for that).
"Do me a favor," Hachem said to our reporter on the scene. "Get an axe and axe him, will ya? He gets a royal on me, every time!"
Over on table 16, our PokerNews reporter picked up the action between Joseph Cheong, an opponent in middle position and Erick Lindgren on a flop that read . Cheong and the middle position checked to Lindgren who opened for 2,000; Cheong called, but the middle position player check-raised to 11,000 total.
Lindgren quickly re-potted it, forcing Cheong out of the way and putting the middle position player all-in before the cards were tabled:
Lindgren:
Middle Position:
Despite the middle position player having flopped top pair and still having a plethora of outs, the poker gods smiled upon Lindgren and improved his hand to two pair after the turn and river ran out , . And with that, another one bites the dust.
We came into the hand on a flop of where three players were all in including Eric Cajelais and Mike Ellis. Jason Mercier had all three players covered by just a little bit with about 18,000.
It all happened kind of fast so it was hard to get everyone's hand, but Cajelais had , one player had for top set, and Mercier had for a couple of backdoor flush draws and as he put it, "I think I have like 1% equity."
But, slim equity or not, the turn and river came and Mercier binked himself a nice little 50,000 chip pot and three knockouts. Mercier has a bracelet in PLO, so with some chips he'll certainly be dangerous as we get deeper into the tournament.
Vanessa Selbst is now up to more than 86,000 after taking out another opponent.
We caught up with the action with a board that read ; Selbst led out for a bet of 6,000 and her female opponent called before Selbst bet enough to put her all in on the river of the .
The opponent called, but she mucked after Selbst announced she had a flush and rolled up . Yep, that'd do it!
A player in the cutoff raised to 1,000 only to have Jeffrey Lisandro reraise to 3,250 from the big blind. The cutoff made the call and watched the flop come down . Lisandro fired out 6,000, the cutoff folded, and Lisandro took down another pot.
Interestingly, Lisandro is seated at Table 18, which is also home to last year's runner-up Kevin Boudreau in the $5K PLO event. While that isn't special in and of itself, the fact that Chance Kornuth was recently moved there sort of is; after all, Kornuth is the man who defeated in Boudreau for the title just one year ago.
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, the player in the big blind, Matt Jarvis and the player on the button all checked around before the dealer produced the turn of the 
.
. Jarvis checked to the button who bet the pot, forcing the big blind out of the way before Jarvis called all-in.
for the straight.
flop, as well as the 
turn. When the 
peeled off on the river, Devilfish bet a modest 1,500 and his opponent made the call.
for trip aces, which was good enough to win the pot. Ulliott is up to 19,000.
David "Bakes" Baker checked, the player in the big blind bet 2,200 and Phil Galfond in the cutoff called. Bakes however may have been stronger than he let on at first and he check-raised the pot to about 10,000. Both players folded and he took down the pot. Galfond is down to around 15,000 but after that nice little check-raise, Bakes is up to around 25,000
where three players were all in including Eric Cajelais and Mike Ellis. Jason Mercier had all three players covered by just a little bit with about 18,000.
, one player had 
.
. Yep, that'd do it!
