Kevin MacPhee just leaned back and told someone at a different table that he just lost a huge pot. We made our way over to his table and were just in time to write down all the cards. MacPhee had still in front of him in the small blind. The under-the-gun player was the owner of and had hit the turn pretty hard: | | . The 180,000 (preflop all in) pot went to the under-the-gun player and Kevin MacPhee has to continue with just short of 50,000.
It was a preflop all in with three players involved. Travell Thomas had and had both Truong Nguyen () and Tristan Wade () covered. The flop helpt no one with but the was of immense help to Wade: . The river spoiled the party for Wade though. Nguyen received all of Wade's chips and received some more from Thomas.
Adam Levy has already been all in with a call for six times today he just told the table. Just now we saw him all in and he got two opponents checking the hand down. One of them was Sam Stein who rivered an ace on | | . That pair of aces was no good as Levy slammed his on the table for a flopped set. He's still short, but still in.
As we came walking by we saw Dominik Nitsche standing up from the table. Adam Levy told us what had happened. Dominik Nitsche had opened and Huy Nguyen in the big blind had made the call. and Nguyen had checked to Nitsche who had made a 5,000 continuation bet. Nguyen had made a check-raise to 14,000 and before they knew it all the chips went in the middle. Nguyen showed for an open ended while Nitsche showed . Both had a draw and the eight high was leading at the time. The didn't improve anyone and the gave both a pair. The eight kicker played though and Nguyen emerged as the winner in that big hand.
Action started with a middle position player raising it to 5,000, and Daniel Strelitz was next to act. He three bet it to 12,200, and it folded around to Tyler Cornell big blind, who moved all in for his last 52,000. The original raiser tanked folded, and it was back to Strelitz. He thought for about 20 seconds before saying "I call."
Strelitz:
Cornell:
Strelitz had two live cards, but the board didn't bring out any paint, running down . Cornell jumped up to 115,000 after that hand, while Strelitz fell to 79,000.
The button shoved for 32,800 and in the big blind Daniel Idema made the call. Idema showed and was well in front of the button's . The two remaining sixes didn't pop up ( | | ) and Idema gathered some more chips.