David Pham is stirring up tons of action, and had he won this recent pot he would've had even more chips.
Under the gun David Pham raised to 12,500. Action folded to Fabrizio Gonzalez in the big blind who raised to 29,000. Pham Called.
The dealer put out the flop of prompting Gonzalez to bet 37,000. Phan quickly moved all in and Gonzalez snap called.
Phan:
Gonzalez:
Phan was in the lead but needed to dodge a , or to maintain that lead. The turn was a blank card keeping Pham in the lead, but the river was just what Gonzalez needed when it came the giving him a straight and scooping the lead away from Pham.
After all the chips were counted out Pham owed Gonzales 118,500 chips on top of what he had already put in preflop.
The buzz inside the walls of the Rio extends beyond just the tournaments on the 2013 World Series of Poker schedule. Online poker in Nevada is a very, very hot topic right now, and WSOP.com is making a lot of noise.
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Players 21 years of age and older who sign up for a WSOP.com account will automatically be entered into the “36-Seat Giveaway” where a randomly-selected winner will win a seat into the next day’s first WSOP gold bracelet event. One of the events eligible in this promotion is the $111,111 One Drop High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament that is expected to feature a $10,000,000 prize pool and allow you to play poker with the biggest names in the game. In total, $182,333 in WSOP seats, including a seat to the WSOP Main Event, are being given away during this one-of-a-kind WSOP.com promotion.
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With 62 WSOP gold bracelet events and three winners promised for the Main Event, this promotion includes $32,000 worth of value to those participating.
The poker tables here at the Rio have automatic card shufflers built into them, which helps to speed up the pace of play thanks to the machine shuffling a deck of cards while another is in use. Over the last five minutes we have heard the floor staff instruct the dealers to stop using the shufflers, to star using the shufflers again, to stop using them and now they are using them once more!
The problem seems to lie with one of the table's power points, which has now been rectified.
"It's not like they cost $20,000 is it," one of the players said sarcastically.
"We better play quick because it's going to burst into flames soon!" joked Matt Stout.
Hopefully, the latter won't happen and it will just be the poker action that is red hot.
David Pham raised to 9,000 from the button preflop. He was only called by Matt Berkey in the small blind.
Both players checked on the flop to the on the turn. The turn card prompted Pham to bet 12,500 chips after Berkey checked to him a second time. Berkey thought about it for a bit, then put his chips into the pot for a call.
On the river Berkey checked a third time to Pham who made a bet of 20,000. Berkey went deep into the tank but eventually mucked his hand.
"Show a bluff," someone at the table said to Phan.
Phan obliged turning over the .
"I didn't even know what card it was," Phan said. "I just grabbed one and turned it over."
Yeveniy Timoshenko opened to 9,000 from the cutoff and once the small blind had folded, Dmitry Vitkind three-bet to 20,000 from the big blind. Timoshenko sat working out all of his options before settling on the most aggressive — an all-in shove. Vitkind snapped him off and the cards were flipped onto their backs.
Timoshenko:
Vitkind:
A rare mistake from Timoshenko who got his chips in as an 82% underdog, which was very uncharacteristic of him. The final board read and Timoshenko had to hand over 149,500 of his chips, leaving himself with 92,000.
We arrived at the table to find Martin Finger and Shane "shaniac" Schleger heads up in a pot where the board read . Finger cut out a bet of an unknown amount and Schleger replied by announcing all in. Finger called for his tournament life and the hands were rolled onto their backs.
Finger:
Schleger:
Schleger was drawing to hit one of his outs in order to send Finger packing, but the river bricked out and Schleger was forced to ship 105,500 over to Finger.
Finger now sits on about 240,000 while Schleger has fallen to around 185,000.
Nikolai Sears opened the betting from early position with a raise to 8,500. The his direct left, and a new addition to the table, was Martin Finger who called. To Fingers immediate left was Jonathan Little and he called on the button. Shane Schleger was in the big blind and he said,
"Do you have me covered, Nikolai?" to Sears to which Sears replied,
"Yes sir. Yes I do."
With that information processed, Schleger raised to 21,500. Sears folded, Finger stared at Schleger for a few moments before folding, but Little called.
The flop saw Schleger lead for 23,500 and Little almost immediately flicked his cards into the muck.
prompting Gonzalez to bet 37,000. Phan quickly moved all in and Gonzalez snap called.
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to maintain that lead. The turn was a blank card keeping Pham in the lead, but the river was just what Gonzalez needed when it came the 
giving him a straight and scooping the lead away from Pham.
on the turn. The turn card prompted Pham to bet 12,500 chips after Berkey checked to him a second time. Berkey thought about it for a bit, then put his chips into the pot for a call.
river Berkey checked a third time to Pham who made a bet of 20,000. Berkey went deep into the tank but eventually mucked his hand.
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. Finger cut out a bet of an unknown amount and Schleger replied by announcing all in. Finger called for his tournament life and the hands were rolled onto their backs.
flop saw Schleger lead for 23,500 and Little almost immediately flicked his cards into the muck.