On the button, Fausto Saucedo bet 2,500 after the small blind checked a flop. The button raised to 5,500, and Saucedo made it 11,000. The button came along, then checked the turn. Saucedo put his opponent all in for about 20,000, and the small blind thought for a couple of minutes before decided to look Saucedo up.
Unfortunately for the small blind, what he looked at was the nuts with a redraw, as Saucedo flipped for a straight with a flush draw.
"I can't win," the small blind said dejectedly. Indeed, he tabled and was drawing stone dead.
David Williams is making a run at WSOP gold here in the $1k.
Moments after being moved to a new table he defended his blind against a 1,600-chip open from the player on the button.
After the two went heads-up to the flop, Williams checked, allowing the button to c-bet 1,700 chips.
Williams took very little time firing right back with the check-raise to 4,200 total and it was enough to take down the pot and push him over 70,000 in chips.
JC Tran has put together a nice sized stack as play enters the late levels on the day.
He bumped it up to 1,700 before the flop only to have the big blind shove for some where near 10k. Tran made the call with and was racing versus the big blind's . Tran got the worst of the flop, but the turn certainly turned things around.
The river ensured the big blind's exit.
A few hands later, Tran bet a flop after his big blind opponent checked to him. The player called 1,800, then check-called 3,600 on the . Both players checked the river, and Tran's beat the big blind's .
Soon after he admittedly bluffed off a good chunk of his stack to a player sitting a couple seats to his left, Nguyen found himself putting Jeff Gross to a rather large test with an 8,850-chip bet into a 12k-plus pot on the river with the board reading .
Gross took his time about it, but eventually made the call, only to muck when Nguyen showed , having missed his flush draw but made one pair.
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Erik Seidel three-bet preflop to what looked to be about 4,200 out of the big blind, and he was called by James Mackey in the cutoff. Mackey called Seidel's continuation-bet of 5,800 on the flop, and both players checked through the and .
Seidel turned over but was bested by the of Mackey.
flop. The button raised to 5,500, and Saucedo made it 11,000. The button came along, then checked the 
turn. Saucedo put his opponent all in for about 20,000, and the small blind thought for a couple of minutes before decided to look Saucedo up.
for a straight with a flush draw.
and was drawing stone dead.
flop, Williams checked, allowing the button to c-bet 1,700 chips.
. Tran got the worst of the 
flop, but the 
turn certainly turned things around.
river ensured the big blind's exit.
. Both players checked the 
river, and Tran's 
beat the big blind's 
, having missed his flush draw but made one pair.
flop, and both players checked through the 
but was bested by the 
