Ali Imsirovic was on the button, tangling with a player in the big blind. The action was on Imsirovic with the turn reading . Imsirovic fired 7,800 and his opponent folded after a while.
"I'll show if you show," Imsirovic offered and the other player turned up . Imsirovic rolled over for a flopped Broadway.
Bart Lybaert raised to 2,000 from early position and three people called, including Day 1a chip leader Truyen Nguyen from the big blind.
The flop came down and Nguyen took the initiative and lead out with a bet of 2,500. Lybaert and another player folded, but the player on the button called.
The turn was the and Nguyen threw in 13,000. The player on the button folded and Nguyen added some more to his already big stack.
As the film crews hovered around Justin Bonomo and the rest of his table, Bonomo gave them exactly what they were looking for. A double up.
Bonomo's all in was for 52,100 and he had tabled the nuts with on an board. Richard Turner, Bonomo's heads-up opponent, matched the wager after rivering a straight with off-suit.
On the turn of , Calvin Anderson had the button and faced an 18,000-bet from a player in the big blind. Anderson tossed in calling chips and the river came . Both players checked and Anderson was shown . He couldn't beat that and continued with 49,000.
There was some confusion about the correct amounts over on table 481 after Robert Brown had held up with against the of Joseph Comins and the of Robert Goldbaum. Eventually, Brown's triple up for some 18,000 was confirmed while Comins won the small side pot.
Apparently, Goldbaum had shoved on the flop and Comins called with the open-ended straight flush draw. However, Brown's aces held up on a board of and the amounts were settled after a mere minute.
We can't tell when the money went in as the board and hole cards were already tabled when we arrived, but Kristen Bicknell scored a knockout after her hit a straight on the board. Unfortunately for her opponent, he also hit a straight but only the inferior one as he held . Bicknell is still far from par but the recent win brought her stack up to 38,000.
The table was still talking about a cooler hand that just previously occurred where pocket queens ran into pocket aces, not knowing they were about to witness another one. After a raise to 2,600 from the hijack, Edwin Alden shoved all in for just under 20,000 in the cutoff. Shinya Shimada was in the small blind and pushed all in over the top, getting the original raiser to fold.
Shinya Shimada:
Edwin Alden:
The dealer fanned the flop with the in the window. "No!" Shimada screamed, but it quickly turned into a "Yes!" when the followed it. Alden hit his ace but Shimada flopped a set of kings, leaving Alden drawing extremely thin. The turn and river were no help and Alden headed for the exit doors as Shimada scooped the pot.