Sam Trickett opened for 25,000 under the gun and received calls from Andrew Robl and Brian Rast on the button and big blind respectively. When the flop came down , Rast checked, Trickett bet 35,000, and both his opponents made the call.
Action then went check-check to Robl on the turn, and he put out a bet of 115,000. Rast made the call, Trickett got out of the way, and the rolled off on the river. Rast checked and Robl followed suit. Rast then revealed that he'd flopped a set with , which was good enough to win the pot.
Brian Rast raised to 26,000 from early position and Jonathan Duhamel called from the cutoff seat. On the button, Bill Perkins called and everyone else folded.
The three players all checked the flop to see the land on the turn. After Rast checked, Duhamel bet 63,000. Perkins and Rast folded to give Duhamel the pot.
Action folded to Robert Bright on the button and he put in a raise to 25,000. Phil Hellmuth reraised to 55,000 from the small blind and Daniel Negreanu made the call from the big blind. Bright also called and the flop came down . After Hellmuth checked, Negreanu bet 105,000. Bright raised to 230,000 and Hellmuth folded. Negreanu called.
The turn was the and Negreanu checked. Bright bet 230,000 and Negreanu called. The river went check, check after the fell.
Negreanu announced two pair and Bright showed the for a flush. Negreanu mucked and Bright won the pot.
"Don't mess with that man!" yelled out Chamath Palihapitiya after the hand, pointing at Bright. "That man's won about two million off me, running over eights with kings and stuff like that. That's Bob Bright!"
A minute or so passed while Bright stacked up his chips and the dealer dealt the next hand. Palihapitiya piped up again and said, "I'm just glad I'm not the first one out, now we can play some poker! Seriously, you can quote me on that, it takes the pressure off for sure."
Cary Katz opened to 22,000 from under the gun, Giovanni "Malibu" Guarascio called, and Phil Ruffin called as well. The flop fell , and Katz led out for 63,000. Both Guarascio and Ruffin called.
The turn was the , and the action checked to Ruffin, who fired 100,000. Only Gurascio called.
The completed the board, and Gurascio checked again. Ruffin reached for green T25,000 chips, cut out twelve, then fired 300,000 into the pot. Gurascio shrugged, made the call, and Ruffin took a drink from his coffee before tabling his cards and saying, "Nuts."
Ruffin showed two red threes for quads, and raked in the pot. Gurascio is very short, with just about a half million chips.
We picked up the action on the turn with 270,000 in the pot and a board reading . Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who just won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship a few days ago for the second time in three years, was first to act and checked, opening the door for Daniel Negreanu to bet 105,000.
Mizrachi proceeded to check-raise to 225,000, Negreanu called, and the was put out on the river. Mizrachi grabbed about a third of his stack and fired out a bet of 325,000.
"You got kings full?" Negreanu asked aloud as he's prone to do. "I shouldn't even be tanking this long," he added after a few moments and tossed in the call. Mizrachi signaled that it was a good call and mucked when Negreanu turned over .
To most people, $50,000 is life-changing money, or at least year-changing money, but not here today. Each of these players forked over $1,000,000 to take part in poker history, and $50,000 seems to pale in comparison.
Interestingly, this is somewhat symbolized over at Table 409 where Gus Hansen has been sitting with a $50,000 brick of cash... which he's simply set on the floor for "safekeeping." We're not sure where it came from our what it's for, but it's certainly the largest amount of money we've ever found laying on the ground.
From under the gun, Frederic Banjout limped in. Andrew Robl limped from the next seat and then action folded to Brian Rast in the cutoff seat. He raised to 45,000. After play folded through the next few players, Banjout and Robl called.
The flop produced the and Banjout led into his opponents with a bet of 95,000. Robl called and Rast tossed his hand into the muck. The river was the and both players checked.
Banjout turned up the and Robl the . The two chopped up the pot and essentially split up Rast's money.
Dan Shak opened to 30,000 in late position, and John Morgan three-bet to 85,000 from the button. Shak called, and the flop fell . Shak checked, Morgan tossed out 105,000, and Shak tanked before check-raising to 475,000.
Morgan tanked for the better part of a minute, then folded his hand.
Sam Trickett opened, for what amount we're not sure, and Frederic Banjout raised to 85,000. Trickett responded with a four-bet to 285,000, Banjout called, and the flop came down .
Banjout proceeded to call a bet of 330,000 before calling another bet of 575,000 on the turn. When the appeared on the river, Trickett bet 725,000 and Banjout hit the tank for a solid two minutes before making the call with . Unfortunately for him, Trickett turned over for the winner.