Soheil Zamanian raised to 8,000 from the button, only for Andy Bloch to make it 43,000 from the big blind. With only around 25-30,000 back, Zamanian instantly shook his head dejectedly, but ultimately decided it was worth the gamble and made the call.
With versus , Zamanian will have been confident of a split pot, but what he received was ten times better. "That's not a good flop for me," Bloch correctly observed as the board came . "I have two outs." Correct again.
John Dwyer raises from the cutoff and Ian Woodley stands up passing his cards before running past me saying, "I just passed pocket fours there, I didn't want to get involved and I really need the toilet. Do me a favor, tell me what the flop is if there is one?"
As he left, Snoopy and I began to speculate what sort of flop we could make up that Woodley would actually believe.
Snoopy, "If you say 4-4-A, he won't believe that, but something like 4-4-7 sounds more likely..."
We gave up in the end, especially since the blinds both folded and Dwyer took the chips.
Short stacked (11,000) an hour ago, Arkadi Kilman had stayed out of the action, folding until positively microscopically-stacked. Finally sensing a time to push, he moved all in for 3,900 on the button when it passed to him. Both blinds, Linda Lee and Willie Tann (it was just 900 more to him) called. They checked all the way until the board stood at which point Kilman flipped but was taken out by Tann's .
Daniel Negreanu, Raced Out
While racks appeared as if out of nowhere to remove the extraneous 100 chips, a hand was still in play on Negreanu's table. He had raised preflop after one limper under the gun (Christoph Bommes). Back to Bommes, who'd then moved all in. Not having had the best of levels, Bommes now covered Negreanu, and he was faced with a decision for his tournament life. After a long think, he called.
Negreanu:
Bommes:
Flop: "Yay!" went a hitherto silent fan base on the rail.
Turn: Now the odd Negreanu fan went "Nine!"
River: And that spells the end of Negreanu's first bracelet pursuit of this WSOPE.
Soheil Zamanian raised it up to 10,500, but found action in Joseph El-Shater who came over the top from the small blind. However, it was only 5,500 more to call, and call he did flipping over in the process. El-Shater tabled .
The wasn't a bad one, and the turn and river awarded the short-stack the pot and a much needed double through.
Gray feeling a little er...blue?
John Dwyer has doubled up after his held up against Jason Gray's despite a scary looking board. The Irishman is up to about 80,000 while Gray takes a small hit.
Linda Lee - twice the chips she had a minute ago
Hovering around the 40,000 mark as the blinds rise to 2,000/4,000, ante 500, Linda Lee found a spot and a hand to get her stack in the middle. Fuad Serhan was just one of several players taking down pots with preflop raises (the previous hand he'd shown queens when given no action) and when he made it 11,000 to go, Lee moved in over the top. Around 30,000 more, Serhan tanked for a good long time, head in hand at one point, but finally made the call with ; she showed .
Flop:
Turn:
River:
And Lee allowed herself one clap for relief at doubling through, getting right back in it.
Warren Woodall raises it up to 11,000 in mid-position and Jason Gray defends from the big blind. On a flop. Woodall bets 11,000 which Gray check-calls. Both then check the turn and the river. Gray shakes his head and shows a missed as Woodall's paltry is good enough to take an almost 50,000-chip pot.
versus 
, Zamanian will have been confident of a split pot, but what he received was ten times better. "That's not a good flop for me," Bloch correctly observed as the board came 
. "I have two outs." Correct again.
, River = 
at which point Kilman flipped 
.
And that spells the end of Negreanu's first bracelet pursuit of this WSOPE.
in the process. El-Shater tabled 
.
turn and 
river awarded the short-stack the pot and a much needed double through.
despite a scary looking 
board. The Irishman is up to about 80,000 while Gray takes a small hit.
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flop. Woodall bets 11,000 which Gray check-calls. Both then check the 
river. Gray shakes his head and shows a missed 
