Brandon Shack-Harris is one of the most well-respected mixed-game players in the Midwest, but now he's showing the poker world he has some legitimate PLO chops in Event #3.
Matt Ryan just wrested the chip lead from Joe Monro in a massive pot. After Ryan bet out on a flop, Monro raised him. Ryan repotted, and the two got it all in.
Ryan:
Monro:
Ryan had flopped a monster with two nut draws and bottom two, but he trailed Monro's set of queens. Things flipped on the turn, which gave Ryan a straight. Monro's outs were slim with Ryan holding two blockers, and the left him sending the majority of his stack to Ryan.
We missed the preflop action, but we do know that Nick Kallenbach got his short stack all in while Greg Merson and Allan Le created a side pot.
When the flop came down , Merson bet the pot and Le shook his head before folding.
"I have quads," Merson joked and tabled his hand — . If he could use three cards from his hand he would have had quads, but as it stood he found the case ace to make top set. Merson took down the side pot, but there was still 40,000 or so in the main. Kallenbach tabled the for a flush draw, and he actually hit it on the turn.
Kallenbach just needed to avoid the board pairing on the river to more than triple, which he did when the peeled off.
Jason Rosenberg check-raised pot after a bet from Andrew Paterson on a flop. Paterson pushed all in, and Rosenberg called.
Rosenberg:
Paterson:
It was a classic Pot-Limit Omaha spot, as Rosenberg had top set but Paterson had heaps of outs with a combo draw to the nuts and a draw to a higher set. He hit two of his outs as the was followed by the .
"Whaddya gonna do?" Rosenberg asked rhetorically before wishing the other players good luck.
With the concurrent elimination of Leif Force at a neighboring table, the players are redrawing for the final three tables.
Nick Guagenti raised from the cutoff and the big blind defended to see the flop. Guagenti fired 8,000 after the action got checked to him and received a rather quick call. Both then checked the turn and the river completed the board. The big blind bet 15,000 and Guagenti moved all in. "Ah man. You got it," the big blind said before releasing his cards.
Joe Munro opened for a raise and got repotted by Loren Klein. Munro called off his stack and failed to catch Klein's aces despite flopping a pair and a flush draw.
Raymond Di Donato opened from under the gun to 14,000 and only had about 30,000 behind. The action folded all the way to Brandon Shack-Harris in the big blind and he raised pot to get the short stack all in. Di Donato called with and was unable to overcome the pocket kings of Shack-Harris, the latter in fact turned a full house.