Action folded to Guy Laliberté on the button and he raised to 63,000. Haralabos Voulgaris made the call from the small blind, the big got out of the way, and it was heads-up action to the flop, which both players checked.
When the dealer burned and turned the , Voulgaris bet out a modest 65,000, which proved enough to take down the pot.
Daniel Negreanu was all in preflop for 364,000 with the against the for Paul Phua. Negreanu had moved all in from middle position and Phua called on the button.
Negreanu:
Phua:
The board ran out and Negreanu had to wait until the river to get his double up. He moved back to nearly 800,000 while Phua was kicked below 500,000.
Daniel Negreanu opened to 52,000 from early position, and the action folded to Paul Phua who moved all in for 418,000 from the cutoff. The button and blinds released, and Negreanu made the call.
Negreanu:
Phua:
Negreanu's wired eights held as the board ran out , and Phua was eliminated.
"Sorry Paul," Negreanu offered after the hand.
Phua made a quick pit stop at Table 401 to perhaps give Richard Yong a bad beat story, then exited the Amazon Room.
We don't know the exact details, but one of our field reporters just told us that Nick Schulman doubled through Erik Seidel holding pocket kings. Schulman is now around 1.7 million chips, while Seidel slipped to about 135,000.
We came on a hand in which the board showed , Tom Marchese had just fired a river bet, and Ben Lamb was deep in the tank contemplating what to do. At last Lamb folded, and when he inquired of Marchese what he had, Marchese had an excuse for why he couldn't show his hand.
"I would have to give him $1,000," said Marchese, jerking a thumb toward Vivek Rajkumar sitting on his right. When Lamb pressed for details, it sounded like it the pair had made an agreement that if Marchese showed a hand, he'd owe Rajkumar a grand (and not vice-versa).
"I gave him a freeroll," said Marchese. Then he added, "That river was very bad for me."
Nick Schulman leaned forward at that. "Gotta solve a f*ckin' riddle every time... what did you have?!?"
The table laughed at Schulman's exasperation as the next hand began, during which they became aware that Paul Phua had busted in 44th. At that news, Marchese pulled out a small wad of hundreds fastened with rubber bands and tossed it to Lamb, settling yet another side wager.
Not sure exactly what the payment was... perhaps $10K? To those of us watching without much practice handling or wagering such sums, it's a riddle.
flop, which both players checked.
, Voulgaris bet out a modest 65,000, which proved enough to take down the pot.
against the 
for Paul Phua. Negreanu had moved all in from middle position and Phua called on the button.
and Negreanu had to wait until the river to get his double up. He moved back to nearly 800,000 while Phua was kicked below 500,000.
- and Shakerchi led out for 425,000. Schwartz called, and the 
fell on the river. Both players checked.
, and Phua was eliminated.
, Tom Marchese had just fired a river bet, and Ben Lamb was deep in the tank contemplating what to do. At last Lamb folded, and when he inquired of Marchese what he had, Marchese had an excuse for why he couldn't show his hand.
flop, Perkins check-folded to a bet of 250,000 from Rast.
