Arriving at the table on the turn, we saw JP Kelly in the big blind fire out a 3,200 bet on the turn of a board against John Dolan who was on the button.
Dolan though raised to 8,625 and Kelly called after some brief deliberation. The river was the and Kelly checked, Dolan sliding out a bet of 16,200.
This sizeable amount put Kelly deep into the tank, before he made the call after five minutes, Dolan showed him for the rivered full house. Kelly nodded and paid the November Niner a good chunk of his chips.
A slightly miffed Liv Boeree (although with 50k she's not in terrible shape) just told us how she'd doubled up Tommy Vedes, losing a nice 20k chunk of her own stack in the process. She'd raised with , and seen a flop of . It would seem fairly good, until she had Vedes all in and he showed .
First in from the button, Freddy Deeb made it 1,300 to play, and both blinds came along with him to the flop.
It was , and the action checked around. That brought them to the turn, and the small blind took the betting lead with a clumsily-handled 2,500-chip wager. The big blind folded, but Deeb called for about 1/4 of his remaining chips, looking for the last card.
It was the , and the small blind checked this time. Deeb took his cue to move all in for 9,000 straight, and his opponent open-mucked to ship the pot to Freddy.
We're going to have to hire someone to stand behind Phil Ivey and relay all of the action to us.
But until then, you're going to have to settle for just knowing that he's doubled up to 41,000 while nobody was looking. Okay, someone was looking, but they're not talking. We'd ask him ourselves, but he's kinda scary.
We missed all of the action that led to it, but John Racener moved all in on the river of a board showing . It was actually an effective bet of about 8,500, as he was putting opponent Todd Terry to the test for the rest of his chips. Terry didn't seem to like the spot, but there was a lot of money in the middle already, and he plunked the rest of his chips into the middle.
Racener turned up , and Terry said, "Hmph, I can't beat that." He flung his into the air and onto the felt face-up as he stood from his chair and headed for the rail.