Kevin Saul just got up from his seat, and Ludovic Lacay told us how the former chip leader got knocked out after having almost 100,000 chips after two levels.
Lacay had managed to double through Saul at first, and that went down like this. Lacay raised with aces pre flop and both Saul and Men Nguyen called. The flop came down with two hearts and Lacay checked to Saul who bet 1,750. Nguyen called and Lacay raised it up to 6,000.
Saul wasn't slowing down and he made it 12,000. Nguyen folded and Lacay made it 19,000. Saul moved all in and Lacay called. Saul had for a flush draw, but he didn't get there.
Later on he lost a big pot against the player in seat one, Trey Taylor. Lacay eventually took his last 10,000 chips when he hit a queen with versus . Saul is done, Lacay is done well and Taylor is leading the way over on Table 4.
A player opened the betting to 1,200 and Liv Boeree called from the cutoff. Jonathan Jaffe made it 6,200 from the big blind and the original raiser folded. Boeree called and the flop fell .
Jaffe took a moment before continuing out for 4,400. Boeree called. The turn was the and Jaffe turned up the pressure with a bet of 8,200. Boeree studied long and hard before calling once again.
The river was the . Jaffe sat motionless for over a minute before moving in all of his large denomination chips, a bet that put Liv Boeree all in. Boeree took a deep breath and called, showing for a rivered pair of kings. As it turns out Boeree was ahead the whole way as Jaffe showed .
We found Sam Stein open the action to 800 only to have Nacho Barbero three-bet to 3,200 from the button. Stein called and the two saw fall on the flop.
Both players checked the flop and the landed on fourth street. Stein checked and Barbero bet out 2,700. Stein put in a raise and Barbero's hand instantly hit the muck. The action happened so fast that we were not even able to gather the amount of the raise because Stein was able to pull it back so quickly.
"That was fun! I'm going to play PLO 8," Daniel Negreanu said to us as he rushed out of the Brasilia Room. We made our way over to his former table to discover that Nick Maimone had busted Kid Poker and added more to his ever-increasing chip stack.
Maimone told us that he opened with a preflop raise and Negreanu moved all in for around 7,000 with . Maimone called with and won the flip to send Negreanu over to play the 5:00 PM tournament. Maimone now boasts a stack of around 160,000.
This event attracted a total of 474 players, and that's exactly how many runners there were last year. Right now there are 372 players remaining, and here's what they are fighting for.
with two hearts and Lacay checked to Saul who bet 1,750. Nguyen called and Lacay raised it up to 6,000.
for a flush draw, but he didn't get there.
versus 
. Saul is done, Lacay is done well and Taylor is leading the way over on Table 4.
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and Jaffe turned up the pressure with a bet of 8,200. Boeree studied long and hard before calling once again.
. Jaffe sat motionless for over a minute before moving in all of his large denomination chips, a bet that put Liv Boeree all in. Boeree took a deep breath and called, showing 
for a rivered pair of kings. As it turns out Boeree was ahead the whole way as Jaffe showed 
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fall on the flop.
and won the flip to send Negreanu over to play the 
