David Pham raised to 75, Paul Lee three-bet to 200, Russ Medlin made the call as did Pham. So a menage a trois heading to the flop and the dealer showed everyone .
Pham checked, Lee bet 300, Medlin raised to 800, Pham folded and Lee moved all-in. Action back to Medlin who incredibly folded pocket kings face-up. Was it a good read? Yes it was because Lee showed pocket aces!
"He's the best," said David Pham in admiration of the Medlin fold.
Sam Trickett has got two mighty towers of green 25 chips signifying his level of activity. That level of activity must be paying dividends as he currently has 15,000 chips despite losing this pot.
Trickett raised to 250 in the hijack seat and both the cutoff and the big blind joined in the fun. The flop was and Trickett bet 375 once checked to, but was forced to lay down his hand after a 700 raise from the cutoff.
James Mackey, one of the youngest WSOP bracelet winners of all time when he was just 21 and four months old, just busted Kevin Saul. Saul and Mackey were sitting next to each other, and in a blind battle things heated up.
Mackey told us Saul limped from the small blind and with the bracelet winner decided to raise. His raise got called and the flop brought out with two spades. Saul check-raised the 200 bet to 550 and Mackey put his opponent all-in for a total of 2,500. Saul called with and was trailing against . No help for the former WPT Bellagio Cup winner and Mackey raked in the chips.
Chino Rheem is having a great time in the field today. He is pushing out a great vibe and his table are all playing along. We just joined the action with Rheem facing a quirky decision. There seemed to have been a raise from under the gun from a short stack and Rheem had three-bet, one seat to his left, making it 625 to play. The original raiser had clicked it back to 1,225 and Rheem was laughing as he contemplated his thoughts openly to the table.
"I am 99% sure that I do not have the best hand," laughed Rheem.
His opponent only had around 1,250 in front of him.
"I can fold right?" Said Rheem.
Eventually Rheem made the call and asked the dealer for a very specific flop. In the meantime his opponent had moved all-in in the dark.
Flop:
"I call," said Rheem.
"You got Jacks?" Asked his opponent.
Rheem turned over and his opponent turned over . Rheem was still apologising when the dealer put a four flush out there with the on the turn. The on the river didn't change anything and Rheem had doubled up his opponent.
Phil Ivey stole the shine of Phil Hellmuth who also decided to play the first event this summer. Hellmuth snuck in quietly and currently he is sitting in the Amazon Room. The 11-time WSOP bracelet winner has 6,600 chips and with his sunglasses and headphones on he looks to be extremely focussed to do good in this first event.
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and Trickett bet 375 once checked to, but was forced to lay down his hand after a 700 raise from the cutoff.
the bracelet winner decided to raise. His raise got called and the flop brought out 
with two spades. Saul check-raised the 200 bet to 550 and Mackey put his opponent all-in for a total of 2,500. Saul called with 
and was trailing against 
and his opponent turned over 
. Rheem was still apologising when the dealer put a four flush out there with the 
on the turn. The 
on the river didn't change anything and Rheem had doubled up his opponent.
