Mario Ho brought it in with the , Vladimir Shchemelev completed with the , and Paul Volpe raised on his direct left with the . The action folded back to Shchemelev who called.
Volpe check-called bets on both fourth and fifth street, and both players checked on sixth. The two checked again on seventh, and the hands were rolled over.
Volpe
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Shchemelev
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Volpe turned over , for absolutely nothing, and Shchemelev showed for a pair of deuces.
We picked up the action on this hand on fifth street. Andrey Zaichenko was first to act with his pair of jacks and he bet. Marco Johnson called and then Dan Kelly raised. Zaichenko reraised and that knocked Johnson out of the way. Kelly called.
On sixth street, Zaichenko checked and Kelly bet. Zaichenko called. On seventh street, Zaichenko checked again and Kelly bet again. Zaichenko called.
"Straight," announced Kelly before he turned over the for a seven-high straight. He also had a seven low and Zaichenko mucked his hand.
Christopher George has begun the tournament with a nice start. He's already up to 20,000 in chips, which is a profit of 5,000 on the day so far. Just recently we witnessed George scooping a nice pot with for a pair of tens and an eight low. His opponent couldn't beat either and mucked his hand.
Andy Bloch was moving tables recently, and he bumped into his friend Mike Matusow. Matusow was happy to see Bloch, and congratulated him, but was alarmed to see that Bloch had already lost a third of his stack.
"How the hell did you lose 10K already?" Matusow asked.
"I lost nine actually," Bloch answered. "And I had deuce-four-five-six and three diamonds one hand, and bricked."
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A player with the completed, Owais "oerockets" Ahmed completed with the showing, and the player who completed called. Ahmed picked up the , and his opponent the . The player check-called a bet, and then check-folded on fifth street.
We caught up with the action on fourth street, where Duke bet out with a pair of queens. Both of her opponents called, and she made trips on fifth. Duke led out again, and Lisandro and the third player called. Duke bet one more time on sixth, both players called, and all three players checked on seventh.
Duke went to open the rest of her hand, but Lisandro showed for fives full of sixes. Both Duke and the third player mucked, and Lisandro scooped the pot.