Dimitar Danchev has just eliminated Scott Baumstein from the table we have affectionately called The Table of Death and this is how it went down.
Danchev raised to 800 and Scott Baumstein three-bet to 1,900 in the next seat. A few folds later and Kirill Kruglov called in the cutoff as did Phil Ivey on the button. Back to Danchev and he moved all-in for 15,000, Baumstein also moved all-in for 9,000 and both Kruglov and Ivey folded.
Danchev
Baumstein
So Baumstein got it in good, but an ace on the turn put paid to his WSOP bracelet hopes and he was out.
During our last walk around we saw that last year's November Niner Phil Collins was all in and called by his opponent. Collins who took home a cool $2,269,599 for his main event performance last year was looking to make a memorable WSOP run this year. After the cards were tabled it didn't look like this would be the event where Collins has another great finish though.
Collins:
Opponent:
A flop allowed for Collins to hope for some kind of run run straight, but a on the turn diminished those dreams quickly. The miracle on the river gave Collins a set of eights and the winning hand. Collins now sits around 27,000.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko has just had to make a decision for his tournament life. We caught the action on the river and Timoshenko's opponent had moved all-in and had the Russian covered.
"I call," said Timoshenko.
"Good call," said his opponent as he placed his hand into the muck face down.
Jason Mercier reminded Timoshenko that he had to show the winning hand so he turned over .
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.
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.
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.
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flop allowed for Collins to hope for some kind of run run straight, but a 
on the turn diminished those dreams quickly. The miracle 
on the river gave Collins a set of eights and the winning hand. Collins now sits around 27,000.
and Timoshenko's opponent had moved all-in and had the Russian covered.
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with Andy Frankenberger, Ryan Schmidt and Joe Tehan in the pot.
and Frankenberger check-jammed, after Tehan had bet 15,000, and he made the call to hand us a three-way showdown.
. The end result being a triple up for Tehan and eliminations for Schmidt and Frankenberger.
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.
was placed on the felt and Smith was awarded the 119,000 chip pot.