Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 0
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 0
Players are now on a 60-minute dinner break and will return at roughly 9:50 p.m.
Howell Cheek limped in early position, Tai Nguyen limped, Paul Volpe made it two bets, Talon White called on the button, and Cheek and Nguyen took a flop as well. The ![]()
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flop got checked to Volpe, who bet. White called, Cheek folded and Nguyen called.
All players checked the
on the turn. The
came on the river and Nguyen checked. Volpe bet, White folded and Nguyen called. Volpe showed ![]()
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for Broadway to collect one of the final pots before the dinner break.
In a battle big blind versus button, Jesse Martin bet the ![]()
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turn and Brian Rast called to see the
on the river. Martin bet once more and Rast called to get shown ![]()
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for a rivered flush and seven-four low by Martin.
Rast carefully studied his cards and tossed them into the muck to drop to just over the starting stack.
Sampo Ryynanen raised in the cutoff and Jesse Martin three-bet on the button, Dustin Dirksen called in the big blind and Ryynanen came along to see the three-way flop of ![]()
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. All three players checked and the
turn was checked to Ryynanen, who bet and received two calls.
The
on the river completed the board and Dirksen checked. Ryynanen bet once more and Martin, as well as Dirksen, called. The Finn showed ![]()
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for a full house and that scooped the three-way pot.
Tom Koral busted at the hands of Viacheslav Zhukov.
The details of this hand were relayed to us by Dan Shak. According to Shak, he and Iraj Parvizi capped the action preflop with Shak on the button and Parvizi in the big blind.
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and all the money got in.
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The board completed with a
and a
and Shak ended up making a full house. With no qualifying low, Parvizi was eliminated while Shak took down the pot and moved over 200,000.
Phil Hellmuth lost a huge pot just before this hand and was left with right around 40,000.
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action checked around to Hellmuth who bet. Eli Elezra raised and Ben Landowski folded. Helmuth then re-raised and the two players continued raising until all the money got in the middle.
"I have ace-jack buddy, if you have queens then nice hand," Elezra said.
"Jack is good," Hellmuth said.
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The
came on the turn, ending matters quickly as Elezra made quads and the river was the
which changed nothing. Elezra got up from the table and shook hands with Hellmuth who stood up from the table very frustratedly.
"Every fuckin' day they do this to me," Hellmuth said as he walked away from the table.