The flop read with four players involved. Sonny Franco checked in the blinds and Dermot Blain bet 1,300 under the gun. Manny Gayle made the call and Siddharth Gandhi followed on the button. Franco let it go.
The turn brought the and Blain sent another bet for 3,800. Once again, Gayle and Gandhi called.
The river was the and Blain fired 11,700. Gayle shoved and it was enough to win the pot as both Gandhi and Blain quickly folded.
Yesterday, the PokerNews Cup returned with an $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Main Event at Golden Nugget Las Vegas. There are still two starting flights left on Saturday and Sunday to take a shot at the guaranteed seven-figure prize pool.
The PokerNews Cup is part of the Golden Nugget 14th Annual Grand Poker Series, which features 81 events and offers over $3 million in guaranteed prize money from May 31-July 3. The tournament, which runs June 24-28, will be live reported here on PokerNews, and there will also be a live-streamed feature table on Day 2 as well as final table action on Tuesday’s Day 3 finale.
The man responsible for making it happen, as well as giving away 100 seats to the tournament, was Director of Poker Operations Andy Rich, a longtime poker industry veteran. As part of PokerNews’ continuing Industry Insiders series, we caught up with Rich to learn more about the man making things happen in downtown Vegas’ last remaining poker room.
Action was picked up on the turn in a pot between Jeremy Ausmus in the small blind, a player in the big blind, and one player in the hijack.
The board read and Ausmus bet 1,000 which folded out the player in the big blind and the player in the hijack called.
The river rolled off the and Ausmus sized up to 1,300 which his opponent called. "I have the nuts," stated Ausmus as he turned over for a turned nut straight and rivered nut flush. His opponent mucked and the four time bracelet winner took down an early pot.
Very few in the poker world have the hustle during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) that Shaun Deeb has, which is why Deeb is the latest PokerNews WSOP Player of the Week.
At the halfway point in the series, Deeb has cashed 11 events for a total of $311,064 in earnings. Three of those cashes have been from deep runs in $10,000 buy-in championship events in just the past seven days.