Brian Rast raised to 6,000 under the gun and Eli Elezra reraised all in for about 23,000 from the big blind. Rast called and both players proceeded to stand pat.
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Brian Rast raised to 6,000 under the gun and Eli Elezra reraised all in for about 23,000 from the big blind. Rast called and both players proceeded to stand pat.
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Level: 14
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 500
Eli Elezra opened to 3,500 from under the gun, Scott Blackman called from the small blind and Phil Hellmuth three-bet-shoved from the big blind. Elezra folded after a few moments, as did Blackman.
Elezra held onto his cards, though, and showed Hellmuth ![]()
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Eli Elezra moved all in for 12,100 and Samuel Touil made the call from the small blind.
Touil took one card and was up against Elezra's patted ![]()
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Touil showed ![]()
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and had a lot of outs to beat Elezra's hand, but turned over
, which gave him a straight.
Christopher Mecklin opened to 3,500 under the gun and was called by Shunjiro Uchida in the cutoff and Markus Garberg in the small blind.
Garberg drew one, Mecklin drew two and Uchida drew one.
Garberg led out for 9,000, but was met with an all-in raise of 23,800 from Mecklin. Uchida folded, as did Garberg after about 90 seconds.
Christopher Mecklin just ended up all in before the draw up against Scott Abrams.
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. Abrams caught a
and Mecklin turned over a
to stay alive.
Shunjiro Uchida opened from under the gun, Scott Abrams three-bet on the button, and Uchida four-bet shoved for about 44,000. After a little while in the tank, Abrams called.
Both players stood pat and Uchida tabled ![]()
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. Abrams had a worse
and saw the pot pushed in Uchida's direction.
The action started with a raise from Steven Wolansky who made it 3,600 to go. Scott Blackman called from the small blind after Phil Hellmuth three-bet up to 9,500.
Wolansky folded quickly, but Blackman took his time.
"I'll take this one kid, you'll take the next," Hellmuth told his opponent, but Blackman ultimately made the call.
Blackman took one card and Hellmuth stood pat.
Blackman slowly looked at his card before putting in a hefty bet of 21,300.
"Come on!" Hellmuth yelled as he got up from his seat.
"They play so bad! They just try to bluff it off against the best player in the world," Hellmuth sighed.
"How do these people even get this far, calling two raises out of position and then drawing," Hellmuth added.
After a while, Hellmuth flashed ![]()
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and folded his cards, leaving himself with 38,000 chips.
With Thomas Ricketts already all in for 1,100 in the big blind, Robin Rightmire isolated the pot with a raise to 3,700 from second position.
Both players stood pat and Ricketts saw his ![]()
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