Big O
David "ODB" Baker and Ryan Leng arrived at the river with Leng all-in.
Ryan Leng: 
David Baker: 
Leng took down the pot with his two pair on the 
runout, putting Leng up to 81,000 chips and leaving Baker with 51,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
81,000
18,200
|
18,200 |
|
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|
51,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
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Level: 16
Limit Flop / Draw: 1,500/3,000
Stud Games: 700-ante, 1,000 bring-in, 3,000 completion
No-Limit & Pot-Limit: 800/1,600/1,600-big blind ante/ 2,400-ante
Badacey
Jack Rice and Benny Glaser got through all three draws with a significant pile of chips in the pot. Rice put in a final bet and Glaser called. Rice tabled his hand and Glaser took a good look.
"You have the nut-nut?" Rice did indeed have the best possible badacey hand with the 
, scooping the pot and improving to 87,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
87,000
59,000
|
59,000 |
|
80,000
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
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A-5 Triple Draw
Danny Noam got 10,000 of his 10,500 in from the big blind before the draw, with David "ODB" Baker and Josh Arieh playing to the first pull as well. Noam and Baker took two and Arieh one. Noam bet the last 500, Baker called and Arieh raised. Baker called and everyone drew the same number. Baker check-called in the side pot. Noam still needed two, Baker one and Arieh patted.
Baker check-folded and Arieh showed 
. Noam laughed and showed 
then spun the rest of his cards to the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
117,000
2,900
|
2,900 |
|
||
|
|
85,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Five-Card Draw
There was about 10,000 in the pot and Nikolai Yakovenko was all in from under the gun. His opponent in the big blind threw away two and Yakovenko thought awhile and mucked four.
The big blind showed 
but didn't improve with 
.
Yakovenko rolled over the 
and peeled one by one: , , 
. That left him needing another pair or a deuce on the river. He squeezed out something he said was paint.
"Hiya!" he shouted, slapping down the 
.
After the hand, he admitted he drew it out for drama.
"Because I'm an honest guy, I'll admit I knew I had a queen," he said. "I'm really bad at sweating those out. I knew what card I had."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
9,900
20,100
|
20,100 |
Badacey
Steven Uccio put in a bet for the last of his chips after the second draw, with Ben Yu and Steven Friedlander both calling.
Uccio drew two, with both Yu and Friedlander drawing one. Yu put in a bet for a side pot with Friedlander and got the call.
Steven Uccio: 
Ben Yu: 
Steven Friedlander: 
Uccio was out of luck on this hand, as Yu's seven-badugi chopped with Friedlander's six-high , which was the winning A-5 low hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
165,000
134,000
|
134,000 |
|
|
||
|
32,000
300
|
300 |
|
Busted | |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
187,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
170,000
83,000
|
83,000 |
|
|
||
|
140,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
||
|
135,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
128,500
67,500
|
67,500 |
|
||
|
126,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
||
|
125,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
|
120,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
|
106,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
101,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
|
||
|
100,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
100,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
80,000
44,800
|
44,800 |
|
|
||
|
36,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
230,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
164,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
150,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
||
|
132,000
79,600
|
79,600 |
|
|
||
|
105,000
38,900
|
38,900 |
|
|
||
|
100,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
96,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
||
|
94,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
||
|
93,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
84,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
|
81,000
44,100
|
44,100 |
|
|
74,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
|
||
|
70,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
|
|
||
|
58,000
26,200
|
26,200 |
|
|
||
|
|
52,000
113,000
|
113,000 |
|
|
||
|
50,000
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
35,000
20,100
|
20,100 |
|
6,200
81,800
|
81,800 |
|
|
||
No-Limit Hold'em
A big pot had accumulated by the time Jesse Martin and Jim Collopy got to the river. With the board reading 
, Martin put in a bet for 17,000 and Collopy went into the tank for several minutes.
Collopy eventually made the call, looking agonized when Martin turned over for the rivered flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
91,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
|
|
||
Players are now off to a 60-minute dinner break.
