There's a four-way pot between Jason Gray, Erik Albinsson, Mike Matusow and Martin Vallo. All four players check the flop before Albinsson bets the turn. Vallo calls and the other two fold. Both check the river.
Albinsson:
Vallo:
Vallo's sixes and fours are good enough to take the whole pot.
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Former $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. runner-up Bruno Fitoussi has just been eliminated from Event 2 by Bruce Yamron. Yamron's two pair (sixes and fives) bested Fitoussi's single pair of kings in a hand of Omaha 8 and Yamron now has right around 40,000 in chips.
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We're already down to 48 players from 56 and thus we've lost our first table of the day. As a result, Table 5 has gotten some new additions in the form of Joe Beevers and David Williams. Here's the new-look Table 5:
Seat 1: Woody Deck
Seat 2: Joe Beevers
Seat 3: David Williams
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius
Seat 5: Erik Albinsson
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu
Seat 7: Robert Williamson III
Seat 8: Kelly Kim
Yuval Bronshtein brings in with the showing, it's passed all the way around to Andy Bloch who raises with the before Jean-Robert Bellande reraises with the . Bronshtein folds and Bloch makes the call.
Their boards end up as follows:
Bloch:
Bellande:
Bellande is the initial aggressor betting his on fourth street, but when he catches the queen, Bloch takes over and bets every street all the way to the end. With the final bet put in, Bloch turns over for a 6-5-3-2-A low and Bellande shows a 7-6-4-2-A and says, "I hate Razz."
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Williams, Generous With All But his ChipsOmaha 8:
With six player so far fallen from the HORSE, as it were, the Omaha round continued to ship chips to David Williams. He played out an interesting hand against Brandon Cantu just now, betting a flop after calling Cantu's preflop raise, getting raised, and putting in a third bet which Cantu flat called in position. The on the turn was check-called by Williams, but he then bet out the river.
Williams showed for the straight and a decent low, but I spotted the in Cantu's hand before the cards were all whisked off and the pot chopped, so I am assuming a better low made the split happen.
The very next hand Williams won a pot from Phil Ivey, raising preflop again and betting until by the turn, the board , Ivey gave up.
No hard feelings, though, as Williams produced a tube of hand cream (riffling chips is so hard on the hands) from what I delightedly noticed was a man-bag and shared it with his opponent.
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As players filter down from the broken table, Phil Ivey filters on to Phil Hellmuth's table. Gus Hansen is moved to shout, "HOWARD! Is Phil the seventh best or the eighth best player at the table? Yesterday he was the best player at his table and today - seventh or eighth?"
Howard Lederer declined to comment.
"You've gone from the penthouse to the outhouse all in a day!" continued Hansen, undaunted.
"What?" asked Phil, removing one ipod headphone having realized someone might be talking to him.
"Tough table!" said Hansen, receiving the enigmatic response from Hellmuth: "I've only played five hands." Here it is, in all its toughness:
Howard Lederer
Sherkhan Farnood
Gary Jones
Adam Heller
Phil Ivey
Mark Gregorich
Paul Jackson
Phil Hellmuth
Yuval Bronshtein brings in with the , Jeff Madsen completes with the and Marc Goodwin raises to 1,200 with the . Bronshtein and everyone else fold while Madsen makes the call.
Goodwin proceeds to bet every street of his board including the river, with Madsen calling him down with a board. On seventh street Goodwin throws out another 1,200 and Madsen recounts his chips and only has about 4,500 left. He decides to preserve them instead and folds. Goodwin shows for Aces up.
"Look at all those low cards," said David Williams after Robert Williamson III was charged with the bring-in holding the . Action then folded around to Patrik Antonius who completed the bet, making it 600 to go showing the ; Williamson called.
(Fourth street)
Antonius:
Williamson:
Upon receiving an ace on fourth street, Williamson took the lead in the betting, firing a 600 bet; Antonius called.
(Fifth street)
Antonius:
Williamson:
The queen on fifth slowed R-Dub down a bit and he checked to Antonius who continued to play fast, betting 1,200; Williamson called.
(Sixth street)
Antonius:
Williamson:
Sixth street saw another check-bet-call sequence, bringing us to seventh, at which point both players checked opting to move straight to the showdown:
Antonius: [ X ] [ X] [ X ]
Williamson: [] []
As Williamson squeezed his seventh street card, he exclaimed, "Ooh! It turned into a ten (low)!" and Antonius mucked.
After the hand, Antonius was left with 19,100, while Williamson improved to 24,000.
Jan Lundberg completed (600) showing the , called by Andreas Krause with the and Simeon Tsonev with the . He was then pretty much out of chips, and with less than two bets was all in on fourth street. Fifth saw off Krause as Tsonev bet the 1,200 showing a pair of nines, and they were left to get the rest of their cards with no further action.
Lundberg [ ] ... ...
Tsonev [ ] ... ...
So his Queen-high straight sends Lundberg to the rail.
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From our desk, Mike Matusow can be heard clamoring about the structure, purportedly suggesting that the levels are too long. Table 5 is also within earshot of 'The Mouth,' and at it, Daniel Negreanu, Robert Williamson and David Williams all seem to disagree with Mike, saying that the structure offers the players great value for their money.
Negreanu even added something along the lines of, "He's complaining about something that's good for us!"
Currently, Mike is pleading his case with Tournament Director Jack Effel, who's doing his best to defend the configuration of the tournament, which he likely had the heaviest hand in designing.
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flop before Albinsson bets the 
turn. Vallo calls and the other two fold. Both check the 
river.
showing, it's passed all the way around to Andy Bloch who raises with the 
. Bronshtein folds and Bloch makes the call.
for a 6-5-3-2-A low and Bellande shows a 7-6-4-2-A and says, "I hate Razz."
river.
, Jeff Madsen completes with the 
and Marc Goodwin raises to 1,200 with the 
board including the river, with Madsen calling him down with a 
and Simeon Tsonev with the 
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