We didn't catch the preflop action which ended up with Ben Yu in a three-way all in, but lucky for us Yu was able to relay it.
Yu opened with a raise to 1,000. A few seats over, another player reraised all in for just about 4,000 total. A few seats over from him another player reraised to 10,000. Action folded back to Ben Yu who jammed all in for just about 21,000. The player who reraised to 10,000 called and the three went to a show down, and that's where we caught the action.
Yu:
Player 1:
Player 2:
The flop was absolute gin for Yu when it came down . He had flopped the nut straight and no one else in the hand even held a heart for the flush. The board completed with a and an allowing Yu to catch the knockout, and the double up at the same time pushing him to just about 50,000 chips.
Imari Love raised to 1,000 from middle position and the player in the cutoff called.
The flop came down and Love continued for 1,500. His opponent popped it to 6,000, leading to Love shoving all in with the bigger stack. His opponent called all in for about 45,000 with , leading Love's .
The turn gave Love additional outs to a straight, while the river completed his flush draw to give him the pot. That upped his stack to about 220,000 and he had increased it further to about 245,000 before losing about 50,000 to Tobias Reinkemeier.
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The internet is currently down at the Rio due to maintenance issues off site. Seth Palansky tweeted earlier that it would only take 30 minutes or so, but it's taking longer than expected.
Unfortunately we caught the action on the river, but with the board reading we found Sam Farha left with just 1,500 in chips.
Farha and his opponent got all the chips in the middle with Farha holding against the of his opponent.
With Farha drawing dead to the , the river landed the to see him double his opponent and be left with just over three big blinds.
Two hands later Farha would move all in for his last 1,400 before one player three-bet to 2,400. Todd Terry called in the big blind before he and the other active player checked down the board with Terry tabling his , but would lose to the other player’s .
Farha rolled over his and would be forced to hit the rail shy of surviving Day 2.