Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Brock Parker has been eliminated.
He was knocked down to 700 after losing a big pot to Bruce Levitt. It began when the under-the-gun player opened with a raise and three others, including Parker and Levitt, called. When the flop came down , the small blind checked and Parker bet 250 from the big. The original raiser then raised to 500, Levitt made it 750 to go, and the small blind folded. Parker four-bet to 1,000, the under-the-gun player called, and then Levitt capped it at 1,250. Two calls followed.
Both Parker and the under-the-gun player check-called a bet of 500 on the turn and then checked the river. Levitt bet another 500, and Parker shook his head before making the call. The other player got out of the way.
Levitt rolled over the for the nuts, and Parker mucked his cards. Parker would fall a few minutes later.
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Ami Barer was eliminated from the six-max tournament and jumped into the $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low on a very chatty table. He was betting ace-high with a flush draw, but his opponent called. Barer and his opponent exchanged some banter on seventh, and eventually turned over their cards.
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The pot was shipped to the opponent and Barer has only a few bets left.
We picked up the action on fourth street when Ted Forrest bet 300, another player raised to 600, and Chau Giang folded. Forrest made the call and then check-called a bet of 600 on fifth. When he paired his eight on sixth, Forrest led out for 600, his opponent called, and both players checked on seventh.
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Forrest flashed the for eights and deuces, but then mucked when his opponent tabled tens and deuces.
We only caught the action when all cards were already showing and Adam Friedman was shaking his head, not believing what had happened. Mihails Morozovs called it a "funny hand," winning the high pot. His opponent won the low one.
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Both Friedman and Morozovs had a ten-high flush, but the second card played for Morozovs to give him 50% of the pot.
Sammy Farha was short-stacked early on and scooped a pot against Justin Bonomo to climb up to almost two times the starting stack. We didn't see the action until seventh, but Farha called the single bet of Bonomo and they turned their cards.
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The current WSOP POY Race leader could not beat the two pair of Farha and fell below starting stack.
Action folded around to 2010 WSOP Main Event runner-up John Racener in the cutoff and he raised to 600. Bruce Levitt defended the big blind, but then check-folded to a bet of 300 on the flop.
"Paul," Racener said to Paul Volpe one table over. "You took Negreanu's seat."
Indeed, Volpe had taken the spot of the recently departed Negreanu, who fell in unknown action. What we do know is that Negreanu will be taking a day off after busting this tournament.