Gregorich bet every street from the small blind into button Phil Ivey, who called him all the way. Just one bet per street, but the pot was a reasonable one now that the blinds are 800/1,600. At the river, the board stood and Ivey showed after calling, chucking them to Gregorich's x.
"I was looking for a Jack and I got two of them.." chuckled Ivey.
"Now I see how you got your chips," needled Gary Jones. No dent in Ivey's smiling armour noted.
Gus Hansen has silenced Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow in a hand that took plus just after the players returned from break. Here's the hand as told by Isaac Haxton, aided by Jason Gray:
Action folded around to Gus in the small blind who put in a raise. Gus then bet every street as the board filled out and Mike called him down the whole way.
At the showdown, Gus tabled a pocket pair of threes for a full house; Mike showed for air.
A four-way pot between Greg Howard, John Kabbaj, Barny Boatman and Spencer Lawrence witness a flop. Howard leads out, Kabbaj folds, Boatman raises, Lawrence reraises and Howard makes it four bets. Boatman caps the betting, which causes some discussions of having seen a capped pot in the last couple of days. Lawrence passes and Howard calls with just 200 behind, which goes in on the turn.
Boatman:
Howard:
"Come on the spades," says the New Zealander and he gets his wish but it's the . "Flush!" exclaims Howard "...And he makes his house."
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Howard Lederer - Less Happy Than PicturedOmaha 8:
Phil Ivey raised preflop, called by small blind Howard Lederer before big blind Sherkhan Farnood reraised. Two calls.
Flop: Check to Farnood, who bet; again two calls.
Turn: Check to Farnood, who bet, Ivey called and then Lederer raised to 3,200. That got rid of Ivey, but not Farnood.
River: Now Lederer fired the 1,600 and after a bit of a pause, Farnood made the call, although he didn't look too happy about it.
Lederer shrugged and could only table for A-K high, while Farnood's took the pot. Lederer down to 20,000.
Then...
Paul Jackson's turn came (this time for high and low) on a board against super-short-stacked Gary Jones. Jones had called on the flop, they'd both checked the turn, and now he paid off Jackson's 1,600 on the river only to see his precious chips move away as Jackson showed .
Having lost a couple of pots at the start of the level, Brandon Cantu bet out on a flop and was set in by Yuval Bronshtein. Cantu called for his last couple of hundred chips as Bronshtein flipped over for the current nuts. Cantu showed and was drawing dead. Bad news for Cantu, but also for the massage girl behind him who just lost one of her best customers.
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Howard Lederer - 35,200
Sherkhan Farnood - 31,000
Gary Jones - 6,200
Phil Ivey - 54,800
Mark Gregorich - 28,000
Paul Jackson - 26,300
Phil Hellmuth - 54,000
Short stacked Adam Heller looked like he'd been biding his time, but with less than 6,000, when he raised preflop it meant he was probably not going anywhere. Indeed, he picked up caller Sherkhan Farnood and carried him all the way through.
He bet the flop - , called, the turn - , called, but the river he was the one flat calling the 1,200 from Farnood, leaving himself just 300 chips.
Farnood showed an and was rewarded with the flip of a pair of face-cards, I think they were , before they sailed into the muck. I blinked, and Heller's last 300 had gone.
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and Ivey showed 
after calling, chucking them to Gregorich's 
x. 
and Mike called him down the whole way. 
for air.
Check to Farnood, who bet; again two calls.
Now Lederer fired the 1,600 and after a bit of a pause, Farnood made the call, although he didn't look too happy about it.
for A-K high, while Farnood's 
took the pot. Lederer down to 20,000.
board against super-short-stacked Gary Jones. Jones had called on the flop, they'd both checked the turn, and now he paid off Jackson's 1,600 on the river only to see his precious chips move away as Jackson showed 
for the current nuts. Cantu showed 
, called, the turn -