Event #67: MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold'em World Championship

In a heads-up pot, Rishi Makkar bet 3,000 on a flop of     and Douglas Lefreniere called from the button.

The   appeared on the turn and Makkar bet 4,000.

Lafreniere quickly raised it to 15,000 and Makkar tanked for a minute before folding his hand.

Rishi Makkar	119,000	119,000
Douglas Lafreniere	84,500	17,500

Action was picked up on the turn on a board reading     . Tammy Winters was facing an all-in shove from Srikanth Koneru.

The pot was about 55,000 and Koneru's shove was for 26,500. Winters went deep into the tank and stared down her opponent. After over two minutes, she called.

It was a good call as Koneru shook his head and said, "You are tough to play against," and showed the   . Winters tabled the    .

Koneru started to stand up and walk away but the   binked off on the river and it was Winters turn to stand up. She got up in frustration cursing her luck and Koneru collected his chips in relief.

Srikanth Koneru	108,000	108,000
Tammy Winters	16,000	-49,000

In a blind-versus-blind raised pot, the flop showed     when the small blind bet 2,500.

Joni Jouhkimainen thought about his move for a minute and raised it to 7,000.

His opponent quickly let it go.

Joni Jouhkimainen

121,000

3,000

Haris Hadziabdic raised to 1,000 on the button and was called by Dennis Phillips in the small blind and the player in the big blind.

Action checked to Hadziabdic on the     flop and he bet 1,100. Phillips then check-raised to 3,500 and it was folded back to Hadziabdic, who called.

Phillips continued for 5,500 on the   turn and Hadziabdic called.

The   completed the board and Phillips bet 10,000. Hadziabdic called after a bit of thought.

"Nice call," Phillips said as he tabled    for a busted open-ended straight draw.

Hadziabdic tabled    for top pair and he dragged the pot.

Dennis Phillips	110,000	-20,000
Haris Hadziabdic	66,000	66,000

There was three-way action after a     flop which included Mobi Fehr from the cutoff, Hossein Ensan from the button and the big blind.

Action was checked to Ensan who fired out 2,200 and then 4,300 after the   turn. Fehr and the big blind check-called both bets bring the   river.

With three diamonds on the board, action was checked to Fehr who fired out 6,500 and only the big blind called.

Fehr quickly rolled over    for the flush and collected the pot after his opponent mucked   .

Hossein Ensan	118,700	55,300
Mobi Fehr	71,200

Josh Arieh was in the small blind was in a heads-up pot against under the gun player Marios Savvides.

Arieh checked on the flop of     and his opponent checked it back. Both players checked again on the   turn and the same action took place when the   rolled off on the river.

Arieh was first to show and tabled    for king-high, but it was no good against the ace-high of Savvides with   .

Marios Savvides	100,000	38,000
Josh Arieh	75,000	-3,000

Rochard Chevalier was spotted in the field with a large stack as he was involved in a hand with the flop reading    .

Chevalier bet 3,000 over to his opponent who folded daily quickly to send a few more chips over to the man adorned in LSU gear.

Richard Chevalier

185,000

-5,000

There was heads-up action between Nick Yunis from the big blind and his opponent from the cutoff with a completed board of       showing.

With roughly 7,000 already in the middle, Yunis led out for 6,200 which was over half his remaining stack and after some time in tank, his opponent folded.

"You blogging this?" asked Yunis as he showed PokerNews    for the bluff.

Nick Yunis

19,200

2,900