We weren't able to see what happened, but after watching Ivey scamper away from the tournament with no more chips in front of his seat we know that he was eliminated. After a little digging we found out that he got all in preflop with against an opponent who held .
A flop basically shut the door on Ivey's tournament life, unless the case nine could make an appearance on the turn or the river. That didn't happen as a and a rolled off respectively.
The table of death is no more. It was fun while it lasted but the superstars of poker have eradicated themselves like human beings like to do from time to time. The latest casualty is Jason Mercier who has been card dead all day long. He eventually found and it went into the middle against the of his opponent and he was out. That left Phil Ivey and Yevgeniy Timoshenko as the two superstar names left on the tables hence the removal of the death tag.
Wait…there's hope! Dan Smith has just taken the place of Jason Mercier and the table of death is back on.
It has just come to our attention that Daniel Negreanu is in this event. It took us this long to realize this because currently he is making a deep run in Event 5: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em. Negreanu who is one of the top ten chip stacks in that tournament has been putting most of his effort their, only coming over to play here during his short breaks. With about 16,500 in chips in this mixed max event, Negreanu is one of the shorter stacks.
We don't know exactly what the action was, but we do know when we got to table #12 Jean-Robert Bellande was all in against Shannon Shorr. Bellande held while Shorr possessed .
A looked to be just want Bellande wanted, but a on the turn caused Bellande to lose the lead in the hand. Bellande called for a fifth heart to hit the board and force a chop, but instead received the causing Shorr to hit two pair and the winning hand. Bellande wished all good luck in the tournament and graciously made his exit.
Walking by we noticed a fairly normal hand forming at Gavin Smith's and McLean Karr's table. Karr put out a bet of 2,950. Action folded around to the player in the small blind who raised to 7,700. Smith in the big blind then moved all in for about 36,000.
Action was back on Karr who took his time making this hard decision. After a few minutes passed he made the call. The player in the big blind snap called and everyone flipped over their hands.
Smith:
Small Blind:
Karr:
The winner of this hand was going to have one of the top chip stacks in the room. Lucky for Smith he had the lead at the moment and was in prime position to win the hand. After the dealer spread a flop Smith's aces were still the best. The small blind was going to need the case king, and Karr was going to need a run run straight to pull this one out.
A turn eliminated Karr, and put Smith even closer to having over 100,000 in chips. A river was placed on the felt and Smith was awarded the 119,000 chip pot.
Someone, somewhere is getting their ear chewed off with a bad beat story from Phil Hellmuth. He opened up the action with a raise to 1,300 and Hiren 'Sunny' Patel three-bet to 2,850. Back to the legend and he four-bet to 4,850, Patel jammed and Hellmuth called for his remaining 8,000.
Patel turned over and Hellmuth had him dominated with . That domination lasted until the flop when a jack appeared to crush Hellmuth's hopes of adding another WSOP bracelet to his impressive string of results.
Joe Tehan is doing a fantastic job of destroying the fans hopes of getting another table full of popular and talented faces. How about this for a table:
Seat 1
Brian Hastings
Seat 2
Andy Frankenberger
Seat 3
Ryan Schmidt
Seat 4
Joe Tehan
Seat 6
Martin Staszko
Seat 8
Martins Adeniya
Not bad eh? That was the set up before Joe Tehan just dismantled it on his way to extending his chip lead.
We joined the action on the flop of with Andy Frankenberger, Ryan Schmidt and Joe Tehan in the pot.
Frankenberger checked, Schmidt checked and Joe Tehan bet 3,000. Back to Frankenberger and he check-raised to 7,500. Schmidt then moved all-in for 9,225 and both Tehan and Frankenberger made the call.
The turn card was the and Frankenberger check-jammed, after Tehan had bet 15,000, and he made the call to hand us a three-way showdown.
Tehan
Schmidt
Frankenberger
Tehan was an 83% favourite, Schmidt was drawing dead and Frankenberger had a 17% chance of hitting a spade. The dealer turned the final card over and it was the . The end result being a triple up for Tehan and eliminations for Schmidt and Frankenberger.
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flop basically shut the door on Ivey's tournament life, unless the case nine could make an appearance on the turn or the river. That didn't happen as a 
and a 
rolled off respectively.
and it went into the middle against the 
while Shorr possessed 
.
looked to be just want Bellande wanted, but a 
on the turn caused Bellande to lose the lead in the hand. Bellande called for a fifth heart to hit the board and force a chop, but instead received the 
causing Shorr to hit two pair and the winning hand. Bellande wished all good luck in the tournament and graciously made his exit.
turn eliminated Karr, and put Smith even closer to having over 100,000 in chips. A river 
was placed on the felt and Smith was awarded the 119,000 chip pot.
