Pot-Limit Omaha
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when Steve Billirakis bet 17,000 into Shawn Buchanan, who tanked for a long time before making the call.
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and his nut flush took down the pot, leaving Buchanan with very few chips.
Pot-Limit Omaha
The board read ![]()
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when Steve Billirakis bet 17,000 into Shawn Buchanan, who tanked for a long time before making the call.
Billirakis showed ![]()
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and his nut flush took down the pot, leaving Buchanan with very few chips.
Limit Hold'em
Scott Seiver check-called a bet from Ofir Mor on a flop of ![]()
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, then check-called one more on the turn (
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completed the board, and Seiver showed ![]()
for a flopped set of sevens, and Mor mucked his hand.
"What's it like, Scott?" Paul Volpe needled his tablemate, who smiled.
Pot-Limit Omaha
Two-time Poker Players Championship winner Michael Mizrachi got short and shipped it in on a ![]()
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flop against three opponents.
None called and the grind back began for Mizrachi.
Limit Hold'em
Talal Shakerchi, Chun Lei Zhou, and Alex Bilokur were three handed on a flop of ![]()
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. Shakerchi checked, Zhou tossed out a bet, and both Bilokur and Shakerchi called.
The turn was the
, Shakerchi checked again, and Zhou fired out a bet. Bilokur made it two bets, Shakerchi folded, and Zhou raised to three bets. Bilokur called.
The Russian called one more bet from Zhou on the river (
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for jacks and nines. Bilokur mucked.
Pot-Limit Omaha
We saw Brandon Shack-Harris, who won his first WSOP gold bracelet this summer and is in contention for Player of the Year, sitting with a big stack of 400,000. He was kind enough to fill us in on how he got a good portion of them.
As he told it, Kevin Song opened for 3,500 and Shack-Harris called. James Obst called from the big blind and three players saw a flop of ![]()
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with two diamonds. Obst checked, Song bet the pot, and Shack-Harris made it 35,000 to go. Obst folded, Song shoved for roughly 100,000 total, and Shack-Harris made a quick call.
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Song got it in with top two pair, while Shack-Harris held aces with a flush draw. The
turn gave him the said flush, and the
river failed to pair Song. That resulted in Song hitting the rail and Shack-Harris vaulting to the top of the chip counts.
Pot-Limit Omaha
2011 $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner Brian Rast got short and after Eli Elezra potted it preflop, he made the call from the small blind. Justin Smith also called from the big, but after the ![]()
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flop, Rast shipped his stack in.
Smith folded, but Elezra made the call with the double-suited ![]()
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. Rast held ![]()
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and top pair was good after the ![]()
runout.
Razz
John Juanda: ![]()
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Juanda led out on fourth street, Mor called, and the five-time WSOP bracelet winner fired out bets on fifth, sixth, and seventh. Mor called him until seventh, when he tossed his cards into the muck.
Pot-Limit Omaha
Matthew Ashton won this event last year to put his name on the map for good, but this year things didn't go so well for him. Ashton came into the day with a ton of chips, but doubling up Phil Ivey cost him early on and just now his last chips went to John Monnette.
Ashton raised to 5,000 and Monnette called in position after which the flop brought out ![]()
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. Ashton bet pot, which was 15,000, and Monnette did not waste a lot of time before putting in a raise to 50,000.
Ashton tanked for quite a bit before calling all in for 37,000 and the cards were turned face up.
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The turn brought the
and the river the
knocking Ashton out as Monnette raked in the pot.