After a series of preflop raises, Nathan Gamble and Matt Gregoire had all-in buttons sitting in front of them and the cards were face up on the table.
Matt Gregoire:
Nathan Gamble:
The flop came and Gamble picked up an open-ended straight draw. The turn brought the , giving Gamble a straight, but Gregoire also completed his flush. The hit the river and both players would chop up the low hand, sending three-quarters of the pot to Gregoire.
Lars Nickolai immediately doubled after being reseated at the table of chip leader Christopher Carey. It seems that he won another pot, and in this battle, he chopped it up with Carey.
Carey raised to 6,000 and Nickolai called. A third player called as well. The flop was and Carey continued with a pot-sized bet of 20,000. Nickolai potted himself to 80,000 and was left with just a couple 100 chips. The third player in the pot folded and Carey made sure every single chip of his opponent went in the pot.
Lars Nickolai:
Christopher Carey:
The runout was and and they chopped the pot, each expanding their stack by 10,000.
The action folded around to James Alexander who raised it up to 5,000 on the button. Eddie Blumenthal three-bet to 17,000 from the small blind and Alexander called. The flop came and Blumenthal made a pot-sized bet of 36,000. Alexander stuck in enough chips to raise and the two players got all of the chips in the middle.
Eddie Blumenthal:
James Alexander:
Alexander flopped two pair but Blumenthal had an overpair and a straight draw. Just as he cheered for a ten, the landed on the turn and Blumenthal made a straight. The on the river changed nothing and Blumenthal scooped the entire pot to double up through Alexander for a total of 78,800.
Lars Nickolai was on Table 409 when they broke and he took place at Table 402 with Phil Hellmuth, Jon Turner, and chip leader Christopher Carey. Carey amassed his big stack by winning a huge 275,000 pot off Frank Visser and eliminating the Dutch mixed game player.
As Nickolai sat down at his new table, he had to immediately post the big blind and that left him with just 15,000 behind. It folded around to Carey who bet 7,000, and when the small blind folded Nickolai, he pushed all in for a total of 17,000 and Carey called.
Lars Nickolai:
Christopher Carey:
The board was dealt and that meant a full double-up for Carey.
Kyle Miaso opened from middle position and Mark Gregorich put in a three-bet on the button. The blinds folded and Miaso called to go heads up to a flop of . Miaso checked-called a bet from Gregorich and the landed on the turn.
Miaso checked again and Gregorich counted out a bet. Miaso check-raised and the two players got all of the chips in the middle with Gregorich being the one at risk. Miaso tabled and Gregorich showed .
"You would have a hand like this," Miaso said. The river brought the and Gregorich took down the high with a pair of aces while the two players chopped the low with ace-deuce.
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Jon Turner and Calen McNeil got all their chips in the middle on the flop.
Calen McNeil:
Jon Turner:
The dealer put down the turn and the river and that meant the end for McNeil his run in this tournament. Turner started stacking the chips he just won.