On the flop of , Phil Ivey was up first and checked. Nicolas Levi checked next and then action fell on Anton Wigg. He fired 7,200 and Ivey made the call. Levi got out of the way.
The turn brought the and Ivey checked. Wigg also checked to see the roll off on the river. Ivey checked and Wigg bet 13,700. Ivey went into the tank for several long minutes. He paused his iPod, took off his headphones, asked Wigg to see his stack, leaned over and looked and studied Wigg for awhile, all while tanking. He eventually went back to checking his hand and then tossed it away, allowing Wigg to pick up the pot.
Wigg moved back to 100,000 and Ivey dropped to 265,000.
And all the way back down and out for Ludovic Lacay, who had 3-bet preflop on the button against Daniel Steinberg's cutoff raise before continuing his aggression on the flop once Steinberg had checked.
Steinberg though check-raised Lacay's 10,400 bet to 27,500 to which Lacay pushed all-in. Steinberg tanked for a minute before calling off his stack with but his read was right as Lacay only had which couldn't improve on the turn or the river. Steinberg picked up a 200,000 chip pot as a result.
Lacay busted soon after, all-in with against Guy Gorelik's and failing to spike.
"I just lost a 120K pot," reported a disappointed Karim Jomeen. "Aces versus kings. Against Nam Le. Win that and I've got like 100 big blinds, but as it is, I'm down to 20,000."
Patrik Selin is up to over 180k after doubling through the unlucky Fabian Quoss. Quoss opened to 3,800 from the hijack to face a 11,000 three-bet from Selin in the SB. Quoss asked for a count of his opponent's stack and when he found out it was about 90,000 he four-bet to 30,000. Very quickly Selim moved all-in and Quoss shook his head and groaned. He was halfway through asking for an exact count but then an called. Show down:
Selin:
Quoss:
Selin smiled at being slightly caught at it and said "It's okay, I'm lucky. I'm lucky."
The board ran to make trips for Selin. Quoss shook his head while Selin continued "It's better to be lucky than good!"
Quoss counted out the extra he needed to pay and then stared down at his decimated stack which is currently at 27,000.
A frustrated Will Failla has been relieved of the rest of his stack.
"The Thrill" got his last 27,000 into the middle with ace-king, and he was racing for double or nothing against Rudy Blondeau's pocket queens.
Failla "won the race" as he says, hitting a king on the river. He lost the hand, though; Blondeau flopped a flush draw with the in his hand, and the river was the wrong out for Failla.
His day is done, though we hope he's sticking around to cause some trouble in London for a few more days.
Barry Shulman was down under 25,000 when he got his money in with , running his suited ace into Guy Gorelik's .
Board:
That's all she wrote for the defending champion of this event, despite getting off to a good start yesterday. He's out with about 90 players left, and we'll have a first-time WSOPE Main Event winner later this week as Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, and now Shulman have all failed in their bids for a repeat title.
Daniel Negreanu has never truly got going today, but his latest double through could be the one to see him hit that next gear.
All in on a flop, Negreanu announced "Nine high" as he showed .
"Ah, the 'nine high'," added another player.
I believe JC Tran was the man holding top pair, his ahead, but vulnerable against Kid Poker's opened-ended straight flush draw.
With the turn coming the to improve his hand to two pair, Negreanu had more outs than a tennis match, one of which duly arrived on the river to double him through.
A quick glance down at his chips reveals that Negreanu now has something around the 85,000 mark.
Viktor Blom opened to 3,700 from early position, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko shipped it in for 21,300 a few seats over. Blom looked snakebitten, agonizing over a decision for what was just a fraction of his chips. Eventually he called, simultaneously pleading, "Small pair?"
Timoshenko turned over , though, and Blom was thrilled.
"I'm good!" he said, flipping over his live .
The dealer was on Timoshenko's side, though, running out a safe board of to secure his double up. That puts him back up to about 45,000.
"That'll put a dent in your stack," Corkins said to Blom as the two men chuckled. Blom is doing just fine, thankyouverymuch; he's still got about 430,000 and the chip lead.
Ludovic Lacay, who has seen more ups and down than a honeymooner's bed just got very lucky to double up through reigning WSOPE champion Barry Shulman. All the chips went in on a flop, Lacay holding but Shulman not only had the best hand but the best draw also, holding .
Shulman improved to trips on the turn but somehow the dealer put out the on the river to jump over 100,000 while Shulman was left with just 25,000.
Farzad Bonyadi has been eliminated by Eric Baldwin after a pre-flop all-in show-down. Bonyadi moved all-in for 18,200 from mid-position and was called by Baldwin in the SB.
Bonyadi:
Baldwin:
The board ran but Balwin wasn't paying too much attention as he was too busy talking about Viktor Blom with Eli Elezra and others. He paused his conversation for a moment to shake Bonyadi's hand and then back to talking about the chip leader.
, Phil Ivey was up first and checked. Nicolas Levi checked next and then action fell on Anton Wigg. He fired 7,200 and Ivey made the call. Levi got out of the way.
and Ivey checked. Wigg also checked to see the 
roll off on the river. Ivey checked and Wigg bet 13,700. Ivey went into the tank for several long minutes. He paused his iPod, took off his headphones, asked Wigg to see his stack, leaned over and looked and studied Wigg for awhile, all while tanking. He eventually went back to checking his hand and then tossed it away, allowing Wigg to pick up the pot.![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
flop once Steinberg had checked.
but his read was right as Lacay only had 
which couldn't improve on the 
turn or the 
river. Steinberg picked up a 200,000 chip pot as a result.
against Guy Gorelik's 
and failing to spike.
to make trips for Selin. Quoss shook his head while Selin continued "It's better to be lucky than good!"
, running his suited ace into Guy Gorelik's 
.
river to double him through.
flop, Lacay holding 
turn but somehow the dealer put out the 
but Balwin wasn't paying too much attention as he was too busy talking about Viktor Blom with Eli Elezra and others. He paused his conversation for a moment to shake Bonyadi's hand and then back to talking about the chip leader.