It looks like they're getting used to flat calling each other's raise from the button - just now when Daniel Negreanu raised it seemed that Barry Shulman's chips were in the pot as fast as the raiser's. Both players checked the flop, and Shulman proceeded to take it down with a bet on the flop. Again, no thinking time noted, just decisiondecisiondecision next hand.
The heads-uponauts saw an flop and Shulman checked. Negreanu bet, and Shulman check-raised another 500,000. Back to Negreanu, who announced all in. Just a moment's pause from Shulman, and the pot went to Negreanu.
1. Walk for Barry Shulman. Unusual for this heads up, actually, for either player to get a walk.
2. Shulman raises on the button, Negreanu calls. Both players check until the river with the board then standing at which point Negreanu bets out 200k, and Shulman folds.
3. Negreanu raises on the button and then wins the pot with a bet on the flop.
A pretty big pot just grew between the sole survivors of this WSOPE Main Event, and it had a twist in its tail which saw Daniel Negreanu drop to nearly his lowest chip position since becoming the mid-day leader.
Barry Shulman bet out 200k on a flop, which Negreanu called. On the turn, Shulman checked, but called quickly when Negreanu bet 300k.
The river brought the and two swift checks. When Shulman said, "Seven," and turned over his hand - - Negreanu winced and shook his head, in the manner of someone to whom the river had not been kind.
Shulman raised to 200,000 from the button and Negreanu made it 600,000. Call. Interesting...
But both players checked the board all the way down, and Shulman turned over to take the pot. Negreanu seems to have showed, but woefully we couldn't see his hand from the bloggers' perch.
Shulman minimum-raised to 200,000 and Negreanu called to see a flop. Negreanu checked -- and then announced all in to Shulman's 200,000 bet. Instafold.
Another few hundred thousand were whittled off Negreanu's stack as he was called (200k) on the turn of a board by Barry Shulman. Shulman bet an amount the dealer didn't even have time to count out before Negreanu had mucked on the river.
Shulman and Negreanu saw a flop and Shulman bet 200,000. Negreanu made it 450,000, and Shulman called.
As has so often been the case in this heads-up extravaganza, though, both players then eased off and checked down the turn and river. Shulman turned over for a flush draw that never came, and Negreanu took the pot with a mere .
As is the most common pattern for hands between these two, the button (this time Negreanu) makes it 200k, called immediately by the big blind. On the flop (this time ) the big blind checks, and the button bets and the big blind folds before the bet has fully settled.
200k seemed like such a lot of chips just a day or so ago, and now it's the size of the smallest regularly repeated victory they gain.