There are plenty of small pots going back and forth right now around the tables, but it is Steven Hensley who consistently wants to play big pots with his stack able to knock players out proving a formidable weapon.
Raj Vohra had got to the turn of a board reading and Hensley checked it over to him. Vohra put out a bet and Hensley moved all in. Vohra thought about it, but in the end he laid it down to the aggression. The table wondered what Hensley had and if he would have called a raise preflop.
Steven Hensley in the small blind called a button raise of 4,600 and with the big blind out of the way it was to a heads up flop of . Hensley check-called a bet of 6,500 and they saw a turn card . Both players checked the river and when Hensley showed the , his opponent threw his in the air in exasperation.
Blake Whittington opened for 4,500 and Olivier Busquet three-bet him to 11,000. Whittington four-bet him to 24,700 and Busquet got a count of Whittington’s stack before moving all in. Their stacks were pretty similar and Whittington quickly made the call.
Whittington quickly turned over and it was a cooler for Busqet who flipped over .
The cards ran out . Whittington whistled on the turn as a flush draw reared it’s ugly head but the river bricked out and he doubled up.
Busquet thought was left with just 1,500 chips. Over the next few hand he doubled up 3 times, chopped once and folded his big blind to a raise to get up to 10,000 but it all looks a bit desperate now.
David Peters is starting to make his move here. After busting a player with kings over sevens all in on the turn of a jack high board he's now on more than 250k.
Vanessa Selbst, winner of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em and her third World Series of Poker gold bracelet, joins the show to talk about her heads-up matches, the Twitter beef with Jason Mo, and her two small dogs. Rich, Donnie, and Jason then take a look at all of the recent bracelet winners and dissect the idea of a $20 million guarantee tournament.
The chip stack building continues for Steven Hensley, who has managed to bust another couple of players and push over the 300k mark.
First he bested one player holding with just by flopping a heart draw and getting it all in and turning a pair of kings. Then he rivered an ace with against pre-flop shoving short stack's sixes.