Jean-Robert Bellande is out. After giving up in a stud pot where Jeff Duvall paired his door card King on fifth street, Jean-Robert Bellande was left with only a couple of thousand chips. These went in against Ivo Donev who managed to make kings and eights while Bellande could only manage a pair of queens.
Chris Bjorin was the only player to call Jeff Lisandro's bet which he made quickly showing the . In fact, Bjorin called him on every street, before perking up a little on the river. Their boards:
Bjorin:
Lisandro:
Showdown, and Bjorin announced, "Wheel," and that's exactly what he showed - the he held perfectly rounding out his hand. Lisandro mucked with a slightly peeved expression.
We join this hand on 4th street between Yuval Bronshtein and Brandon Cantu. Bronshtein bets his open pair of and Cantu calls with . Bronshtein then bets when he picks up the and Cantu gets the and again Cantu makes the call.
On 6th street Cantu picks another ace to give him a board of and bets with Bronshtein making the call showing . Both check the river and Cantu says, "Just aces." Bronshtein turns over for two pair to win the pot.
Cantu lets out an anguished sigh as he flips for a missed wheel draw as well as many other outs to scoop or at least halve the pot.
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.
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
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.