Players are off to the final 15-minute break of the day; one more hour of play remains before bagging. Some of the best of the last two hours includes:
Players are off to the final 15-minute break of the day; one more hour of play remains before bagging. Some of the best of the last two hours includes:
Picking up the action after the turn of a ![]()
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board with about 19,000 in the pot, Mike Dentale was all in from middle position and was called by the player on his left. Alex Kostritsyn had check-raised to 37,000 from the big blind and the third player in the hand reraised all in for about 65,000.
Kostritsyn tanked for a bit before he folded.
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for the same wheel.
Dentale was freerolling, but the river was the
to chop the pot.
Kostritsyn said he folded a spade straight-flush draw.
Kevin Pollak raised to 1,400 from under the gun, and only Thomas Bauer in the big blind called.
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flop, and Bauer bet 2,500 on the
turn. Pollak called.
Bauer bet 4,500 on the
river, sending Pollak deep into the tank.
"Your story is that you flopped a flush?" Pollak asked Bauer. "If you don't have a flush, you lose."
Bauer remained nonplussed, even after Pollak took a few moments to stare Bauer down. A few minutes passed before a clock was called, and with a few seconds left on the clock, Pollak folded ![]()
faceup. Bauer mucked without showing and took down the pot.
Three players were on the turn of a board that read ![]()
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. Josh Arieh checked, Eric Kaneshiro bet 15,000, Lauren Bunch callled the 15,000 and Arieh folded. The river was the
. Kaneshiro checked and Bunch quickly checked behind and turned over the ![]()
but it was no good as Kaneshiro showed the ![]()
for the winning set.
Yunye Lu and Antonie Labat tangled in a pot which had grown to around 35,000 before they came to the ![]()
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turn. Lu was in the third position and he put in 40,000, covering Labat's remaining 18,000 or so.
Labat was on the button, contemplating a decision that could potentially result in his elimination. He opted to fold, avoiding the risk.
Angelina Rich raised to 1,500 from middle position, and Keith Lehr three-bet to 6,200 from the hijack. Rich called.
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flop was checked by both players, and Rich checked again on the
turn. Lehr flicked a 25k chip in the pot, and Rich, who had 27,600 remaining in her stack, opted to pick a different spot, folding.
On the turn the board read ![]()
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. Johnny Chan made a large overbet of 25,000. His opponent thought it out but laid it down to give Chan some chirping chips as the day heads to an end.