We caught up to find Alex Queen heads up in a pot with the flop reading . Queen checked to his opponent who bet. Queen, however, opted to toss out a raise and his opponent called.
Fourth street was the and Queen continued out with another bet. His opponent mucked his hand and Queen was able to grab the pot.
On a flop, Roland Israel checked and the player under the gun checked as well. A middle position player bet and Israel called. The under the gun player put out a raise which was called by both players.
The turn brought the and Israel led out with a bet. His under the gun opponent called and the middle position player got out of the way.
The board completed with a and Israel bet out. His opponent raised and Israel waited about thirty seconds before three-betting. His opponent called but mucked his hand when Israel turned up for the nuts.
Daniel Ospina just won a nice pot to get his stack to just under 100,000. We caught the action with Ospina betting under the gun with a flop that read . He got two callers, and the hit the turn. Ospina bet out again, and one of his opponents raised all in. The other folded, and Ospina made the call.
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Ospina fell way behind on the flop, but shot back to the lead on the turn. His opponent could only catch the case jack to win, but he didn't get it, as the on the river gave him a lesser full house, rubbing salt in the wound. After that pot, Ospina is sitting on 94,000.
Action folded to a late position player, and he raised it up. Alex Queen put in a third bet, and his opponent called, leaving himself just 300 left. Those chips went into the middle on a flop, and Queen's had out flopped his opponents . Queen would need to fade an ace to win the pot, and he did that on the turn, the . That did give his opponent an inside straight draw as well, but the on the river was safe for Queen. He collected the bounty, and upped his stack to 158,000.
Jennifer Harman raised in the cutoff, and she got just one call from the small blind. The dealer fanned out a flop of , and Harman was check raised. She just called, and the turn brought another three, the . The small blind stayed aggressive, betting again, but this time, Harman raised. The river was the , and the small blind check called a bet from Harman, who shwed for a full house. Her opponent mucked, and Harman jumped up to nearly 70,000.
We caught up with the action on a flop that read , with Al Barbieri heads up against an opponent in position. It was checked to Barbieri, who fired out a bet. He was check raised, and he made the call. The turn was the , and that's where the fire works happened. The betting was capped on the turn, ending with Barbieri sticking the last of his chips in.
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Opponent:
Barbieri's nut flush had his opponent's smaller flush drawing dead to the for the straight flush, and that miracle didn't come on the river, the . After the pot, Barbieri is up to 73,000.
Jennifer Harman raised it up in middle position, and she was raised by a late position opponent. She made the called, then proceeded to check call bets on every street, as the board ran out . Her opponent showed for rivered broadway, and Harmen tossed her cards into the muck. She dropped back down to around 60,000 after the hand.