From the big blind Loni Harwood led out and got raised to 31,000 by Andrew Sapiro on the turn card of a board reading .
Harwood made the call and the river card was the . Harwood checked and Sapiro went for a bet of 32,000. Harwood cut out the chips and slid them forward for a call but mucked when she saw the trips of Sapiro.
The winner of the 2014 $50,000 Poker Players' Championship, John Hennigan, has just been eliminated. He reraised all in after a short stack was all in from early position and had the opponent covered.
Hennigan also held the better hand in versus but the board ran out to leave him ver short with only 3 big blinds. We were not back at the media desk when we heard the payout from his table and saw Hennigan standing up.
Viktor Skoldstedt was able to score another nice pot with pocket queens on a board and extracted value on the flop and river. The opponent mucked and claimed to have had jacks in the spot. There are also two other familiar faces on the same table as well and you can find their chip counts below.
Vinny Pahuja raised, Jeff Blenkarn three-bet and then called the four-bet of Pahuja for 23,000 chips. On the flop, Pahuja made the continuation bet and Blenkarn moved all in - snap call from Pahuja with pocket aces. Blenkarn showed the for a gutshot and got there thanks to a seven on the river.
"You gotta get lucky one time, right?" Blenkarn asked. In seat one, Mihails Morozovs joked "well you used that one time now, right" and the table burst in laughter. "Yes, one time against each player," Blenkarn replied. "He wasn't supposed to have aces there." Ah well, that's poker.