Kara Scott opened to 4,800 from early position and Joe Elpayaa came along for the ride from the hijack position. Scott made a 5,400 continuation bet on and Elpayaa made the call. Scott hit the brake on the turn and knocked on the table indicating a check. This was the sign for Elpayaa to bet and he put 9,900 in. Scott made the call and again checked on the on the river. Elpayaa cut out, what looked like, 13,200. Scott thought for a couple of minutes and eventually said 'Call' without putting chips in or turning her cards up just yet. Elpayaa had a disgusted look on his face and told Scott she made a good call. Elpayaa mucked and Scott showed her although she didn't have to.
A player walked by us standing near another table, and we overheard him saying to a friend something along the lines of "I just ran kings into aces preflop for the chip lead." We went to investigate his table, and sure enough, we saw Brandon "The Romantic" Yu stacking up a wave of big chips. Once he stacked it all up, we pegged his satack at 480,000, which is more then 200,000 clear of the rest of the field!
Even crazier, we were told that on the big hand, one player at the table folded queens and another folded Ace-King!
Jeremy Ausmus just opened the button and his opponent in the big blind shoved for 52,700. After some thinking he made the call, but would soon find out he had a lot of catching up to do. Ausmus had and was up against . The board didn't help Ausmus: | | . "I raise your hand every single time" Ausmus said with a smirk, explaining why he had to call the shove with a reasonable hand like pocket sevens.
Jeremy Ausmus shoved under-the-gun plus one for 42,500. Action quickly folded to the big blind who made the call with his . Ausmus tabled and was in the lead after the flop: . The on the turn didn't make a difference and neither did the on the river. Ausmus, with the higher full house, doubles to a little over 90,000.