Keith Sexton moved all-in for around 10,000 in early position and JP Kelly was the only player who felt like taking him on. So heads up and Kelly was in a dominating position.
JP Kelly
Sexton
Board:
The nine on the turn confirming the demise of Sexton and JP Kelly moves back up to 63,000
We joined the action late in the hand and here was the situation.
Laurent Perrin was seated in the small blind and he had moved all-in for 16,000. The action was back onto Andrew Lichtenberger who must have opened from the hijack seat but also in the hand was JP Kelly seated in the cutoff. Lichtenberger made the call and JP Kelly mucked his hand. When the cards were over turned Kelly looked like he wanted to have his hand back.
Perrin
Lichtenberger
Board:
Perrin moved up to 44,000, Lichtenberger moved down to 37,000 and JP Kelly moved down to 49,000. During the post hand conversation we believe JP Kelly folded pocket nines.
Two experienced professionals just clashed in a big pot right after the money bubble. It was Brent Hanks, three time WSOP finalist, who raised the action to 2,400 and he got called by the player to his left. From the blinds Ryan Welch, 2010 WSOP bracelet winner, who opted to three-bet to 7,000.
Hanks didn't have folding on his mind and four-bet to 18,500. The caller in the middle folded his cards and Welch moved all-in. Hanks was far from happy but after giving it some thought he made the call for 37,800 total.
Brent Hanks
Ryan Welch
The board ran out giving Welch the win and Hanks was left behind with just 13,500 chips. The player that folded pre flop after having called Hanks's raise was overly excited and he claimed to have throw his ace-king suited into the muck.
Joseph Cino raised to 2,500, in first position, before Chester Adamson moved all-in one seat to his left. Giorgio Fiory was next to act and when he peeked at his cards his face looked as if it had just seen a ghost. He threw his cards to the dealer as if they had been touched by a leper and we were back to Cino who also mucked.
"I had pocket queens," said Fiory.
Adamson didn't say anything and quietly collected the pot.
Terrence Chan has just handed the majority of his stack to Derek Wolters in a cooler. Wolters was seated in the small blind holding and Chan was in the big blind holding . You do not need to have a steeped poker education to understand what happened next!
John Eames has just been eliminated two places shy of a min-cash. He opened up to 2,500 in early position and found himself the subject of a late position three-bet to 6,000. Eames decided his moment had arrived and he moved all-in and his opponent quickly called. Eames had and his opponent had . No magical permutations or aces for Eames and he was left looking for a ride.