After being crippled to three big blinds by Daniel Negreanu earlier, Sorel Mizzi ran his stack up from about 10,000 to more than 150,000. However, he recently busted.
Picking up the action after a flop, Mizzi and Negreanu checked to Bobby Baldwin who bet 40,000. Chris Klodnicki folded, leading to Mizzi check-raising all in for about 150,000. Negreanu folded, Baldwin called, and the hands were revealed.
Mizzi:
Baldwin:
The turn and river were paint, but the and were no help to Mizzi, ending his tournament.
"All in and a call," we heard a dealer announce. We made our way over just in time to discover Scott Seiver flipping for his tournament life against Amit Makhija.
Seiver:
Makhija:
According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Seiver had a 56.65% chance of surviving the hand and Makhija would win 42.95% of the time. The flop kept Seiver firmly in the lead and increased his chances of winning to 75.25%, while the turn pushed it up to 86.36%. All Seiver needed to do was dodge a king and ace on the river to double, but he couldn't do it as the spiked.
Seiver shook hands with Makhija and then made a beeline toward the exit.
When we reached the feature table, Phil Ivey had a three-bet of 35,000 sitting in front of him. Marvin Rettenmaier cold four-bet jammed for 145,000 out of the big blind, the original raiser folded, and the action was back on Ivey.
He checked his cards a second time, then sat back in his seat. He shot Rettenmaier a disapproving glance, then turned his attention back to his own stack. The nine-time bracelet winner cut enough chips out of his stack to make the call, slammed them back into the stack, and folded.
Faraz Jaka was all in preflop for 54,500 and up against Daniel Alaei, who had pushed out Bill Perkins by making it 100,000 to go.
Alaei:
Jaka:
Jaka got it in good and was looking to dodge an ace. Much to his dismay, the appeared in the window and was followed by the and . Alaei made two pair and suddenly Jaka was in need of some help. The turn gave him a little by providing a straight draw, but the river failed to fill it.
We heard a commotion at the feature table and made our way up to discover a board reading . Bill Chen had moved all in with and John Juanda called with . The river was a useless and Chen exited the feature table area.
You're more likely to find Gus Hansen and Ben "bttech86" Tollerene playing at the same table on the virtual felt, but today's tournament was special as the two online legends squared off in the live realm right here at the World Series of Poker.
According to Jason Koon, the dynamic duo recently went up against one another that saw one of them hit the rail. It began when Tollerene opened for 7,500 under the gun and two players flatted. Hansen then three-bet to 34,500 from the small blind, Tollerene four-bet to 90,000, the two limpers folded and the "Great Dane" made the call.
After the flop fell , Hansen checked and Tollerene bet 80,000. Hansen tanked for five minutes before calling and saying, "I'm sorry."
Hansen then checked the turn and snap-called when Tollerene moved all in. Hansen tabled the for a flopped set, and Tollerene was drawing dead with the . The meaningless river was run out and Tollerene was bounced from the tournament.