Ruzicka raised to 450 in the hijack seat, Jerry Yang called in the cutoff and the big blind also called. The flop was , the big blind checked, Ruzicka bet 550 and Yang folded. Ruzicka then threw his hand into the muck and the dealer went to hand him the pot. This was, of course, before the player in the big blind reminded everyone that he was still playing! Own goal by Ruzicka, because as the dealer told him, "I can't retrieve your hand from the muck darling." The pot was given to the big blind by default and Ruzicka was left looking redder than a radish.
Vojtech Ruzicka has already cashed three times in this series and has 17k in chips.
We have just noticed Ali Eslami in the field. Eslami finished 3rd in last night's epic $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event featuring the heads-up clash between Phil Ivey and Andy Frankenberger.
Eslami has just received a congratulatory tweet by none other than Mr Ivey himself.
"Congrats also to @AliEslami who came right behind me last night. Watch out for him in the future! #WSOP --PI"
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Andre Akkari is riding high with a stack of 45,000. We wandered over to ask Akkari how he managed to obtain such a big stack so early on and he told us that he is slowly grown it over a lot of pots. He did give us one big hand though.
The button raised to 350 and Akkari three-bet to 750 from the blinds and his opponent called. The flop was Akkari bet 1,100, his opponent raised to 3,900, Akkari moved all-in and his opponent called. Akkari turned over and his opponent held . The four-flush stayed away and Akkari now has 45,000 chips.
Andrea Dato has just eliminated Arnaud Mattern. Dato opened to 325 and Mattern moved all-in for 2,500. Dato made the call and won the showdown with versus .
Kevin Iacofano has had a good start to the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) with two cashes so far and today has started just the same way. He has eliminated the 2010 WSOP Player of Year Frank Kassela and this is how.
Kyle Bowker raised to 325, Iacofano called, Kassela jammed to 3,525, Bowker folded and Iacofano called.
Iacofano
Kassela
The board remained jackless and Kassela was eliminated.
As we were chatting to Lex Veldhuis he sat down to play his big blind. The action got folded to Mickey Petersen who raised to 300 from the button and Veldhuis opted to shove for his last 2,700 chips. Petersen snap-called and we got ourselves an all in showdown.
Lex Veldhuis
Mickey Petersen
The board showed giving Petersen the broadway straight. Veldhuis was eliminated and he headed to the cash game area.
We were watching Jason Mercier moving all-in, on a separate table, when our attention was averted to the commotion involving Daniel Negreanu and Jay Conley.
Negreanu was leaving but a very happy Conley filled in the white space for us.
It was a three-bet pot with Conley holding and Negreanu holding . The flop was , Conley checked, Negreanu bet 1,000, Conley check-raised to 2,500, Negreanu moved all-in and Conley called.
It was the club draw versus two pair and the turn and gave Conley a boat, a Negreanu bust-out story and 28,500 in chips.
Footnote: Jason Mercier's all-in bet was not called and he has around starting stack.
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, the big blind checked, Ruzicka bet 550 and Yang folded. Ruzicka then threw his hand into the muck and the dealer went to hand him the pot. This was, of course, before the player in the big blind reminded everyone that he was still playing! Own goal by Ruzicka, because as the dealer told him, "I can't retrieve your hand from the muck darling." The pot was given to the big blind by default and Ruzicka was left looking redder than a radish.
Akkari bet 1,100, his opponent raised to 3,900, Akkari moved all-in and his opponent called. Akkari turned over 
and his opponent held 
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and Negreanu holding 
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gave Conley a boat, a Negreanu bust-out story and 28,500 in chips.
