Kevin Vandersmissen, Steven Silverman and Ben Lamb each put 675 in preflop before the dealer rolled out the flop. Vandersmissen and Silverman checked, then Lamb fired 850. Vandersmissen called, and Silverman folded.
The turn was the , and both players checked to see the pair the board on the river. Vandersmissen led with a bet of 2,375, and Lamb called.
Vandersmissen showed the for tens full of nines, and Lamb mucked his hand.
Eric "E-Fro" Froehlich was on life support just a few minutes ago, when his was beat by a flopped straight, in a hand that the longtime games player took to Twitter to celebrate after losing the minimum.
Just a half hour or so later, however, and Froehlich's stack has been returned to its former health. We saw E-Fro dragging a large pot his way, and with a player departing his table in a hurry, it was clear the two-time WSOP bracelet winner had notched a knockout to pad his stack.
We stuck around to catch Froehlich win a few more small pots, and after dodging elimination earlier in a spot many amateurs would have gladly gone bust, the former Magic the Gathering great has played his regrowth card to perfection, returning from the graveyard after an early clash.
From the cutoff seat, Elio Fox opened with a raise to 525. Christian Harder called on the button, then Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier called from the small blind. In the big blind, Steve O'Dwyer reraised to 2,400. Fox and Harder folded, but Grospellier had other things in mind. After some thought, he moved all in for 11,750. O'Dwyer tanked for a bit, then called.
O'Dwyer saw the bad news when Grospellier showed the and had his dominated. The flop, turn and river ran out , and Grospellier doubled up.
We saw more than 5,500 in the pot and no flop to be found, with Brain Rast facing what looked to be an all-in bet of 11,625 by Ben Hamnett. Rast stood to count out the wager, and cut the appropriate amount of chips from his already doubled stack.
After a minute or so of thought, Rast plunked in the excised stack turned over his . That's when Rast discovered that Hamnett, who you may remember as the winner of the 2012 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event ($818,847), still had a thousand or so chips remaining behind his water bottle.
"I put him all in then," said Rast, apparently having placed more than enough in the pot for such a raise anyway. "I didn't see the extra chips though."
With Rast's overpair already tabled, Hamnett could not have liked calling off with his , but he was pot committed at this point and his last chips went into the middle.
Flop:
Just like that, the deck delivered for Hamnett, and when the turn () and river () brought no third ten on board, Rast was forced to ship half of his stack across the table.
We happened to catch the action at Daniel Negreanu's table where he and two other opponents were involved in a three-way pot on the flop. The board read .
The first opponent bet 575, and the second opponent folded the action to Negreanu. The first opponent almost threw his cards into the muck, thinking that the action was over and that he had won the hand. Negreanu immediately spoke up.
"Hey, hold on, I'm still in the pot...and I'm gonna raise you," announced Negreanu, taking advantage of the awkward moment and getting a few laughs from the crowd.
He must have known his opponent was weak, and Negreanu took down the pot while flashing a red queen.
The board read by the turn, and Mizrachi had all of his chips pushed to the front for an all-in bet. Radoja snap-called and revealed his for a set on the turn, which had Mizrachi looking pained as he flipped over an inferior set in . The on the river changed nothing, and Radoja doubled his 13,675 through Mizrachi.
flop. Vandersmissen and Silverman checked, then Lamb fired 850. Vandersmissen called, and Silverman folded.
, and both players checked to see the 
pair the board on the river. Vandersmissen led with a bet of 2,375, and Lamb called.
for tens full of nines, and Lamb mucked his hand.
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