Friday, June 25, 2010 5:10 PM Local Time
Stud-8
Steve Billirakis: (X-X) / / (X)
Marco Johnson: (X-X) / / (X)
John Hennigan: (X-X) / / (X)
We caught up with the action on fourth, when Johnson led with a bet, and Hennigan and Billirakis both called. Johnson bet again on fifth, and Hennigan raised. Billirakis three-bet, and the other two called. Billirakis moved all in with his last few thousand on the next street, and Johnson called. Hennigan raised it to a full bet, and Johnson called that as well. He check-called one last bet on the side, and it was time for a complicated showdown. Billirakis showed , and queens full of tens was good for the high half of the main pot. Hennigan's gave him the low of the main and side pots, and Johnson had made a straight to take half of the side pot.
The end result left Billirakis with 200,000, Hennigan with 200,000, and Johnson with 560,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 5:03 PM Local Time
Stud
Brandon Adams got his last chips in on third when he completed, Richard Ashby raised, he three-bet, Ashby four-bet, and he called all in.
Adams: / /
Ashby: / /
Adams split aces held and he doubled to 210,000. Ashby dipped to 470,000 after paying him.
In another stud hand, Steve Billirakis was all in by fifth against John Hennigan.
Billirakis: /
Hennigan: /
Hennigan picked up the next, giving him a heart draw to go with his pair of sixes. Billirakis caught the on sixth, meaning he'd need any ace, queen, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, or diamond to double. And the fit the bill, giving him 140,000 and the chance to see another hand. Hennigan was left with 210,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:53 PM Local Time
Several players are hanging on by their fingernails with barely-there stacks. Keep in mind, a big bet is 36,000.
Brandon Adams - 95,000
Steve Billirakis - 85,000
Marco Traniello - 75,000
Roman Yitzhaki - 60,000
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:49 PM Local Time
Stud
Steve Billirakis had just folded on sixth in a razz hand, leaving himself only 35,000. When the game switched to stud, he was all in on third with / against Brandon Adams' / . The boards fell:
Billirakis: / / (X)
Adams: / / (X)
Billirakis was ahead until Adams peeled the on seventh to make top pair. Billirakis squeezed his last card and turned over the , giving him a straight to stay alive. Billirakis is still short with 85,000, and now Adams is short as well with 95,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:42 PM Local Time
Razz...err, Stud
Matt Glantz: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen completed, and Glantz called. He called again when Mortensen bet on fourth and fifth. The Matador checked sixth, then called a bet from Glantz. Both players checked on the end. Mortensen tabled , saying "Eight." He did indeed have an eight-low. Too bad the game had switched from razz to stud. Glantz held and won the pot with a pair of fives. He's up to 700k while Mortensen's mistake dropped him to 400k.
After the hand, Carlos asked the dealer to move the placard that displays the game so that he could see it.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:36 PM Local Time
Razz
Roman Yitzhaki: (X-X) / / (X)
Nick Schulman: (X-X) / / (X)
Yitzhaki led with bets on fourth and fifth, and Schulman called. Both checked sixth, and after looking at his final card, Schulman bet out. Yitzhaki folded, flashing the (ax2x) he'd started with and the third he'd caught on seventh. He is down to 100,000 now and in need of help.
The same round, Marco Traniello lost a big razz pot to Scott Fischman to find himself in similar difficulty.
Schulman: (X-X) /
Traniello: (X-X) / / (X)
Fischman: (X-X) / / (X)
Traniello led on fifth, and when Fischman raised, Schulman folded. Marco called, then bet out on sixth. Scott flatted. Traniello checked seventh, and Fischman bet. Traniello called to see that Fischman had caught a wheel. Fischman is up to 560,000 while Traniello is down to 127,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:27 PM Local Time
Omaha-8
On an flop, Steve Billirakis got his last chips in, and Michael Chow called him. Billirakis held for top pair with a gutshot. Chow showed for the full straight draw. But neither the turn nor the river brought a third Broadway card, and Billirakis doubled up to 220,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:22 PM Local Time
Omaha-8
Brandon Adams raised from middle position, and John Hennigan three-bet behind him. Adams called to see the . He check-called Hennigan's flop bet and did the same after the on the turn. The on the river bricked low draws but filled in just about every other draw. Hennigan put in one last bet, leaving himself 2k behind. He turned over for trip sixes. Adams couldn't beat it with . Hennigan doubled to 260k, leaving Adams with 230k.
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:17 PM Local Time
Table 373
Seat 1: Steve Billirakis - 90,000
Seat 2: Michael Chow - 615,000
Seat 3: Marco Johnson - 660,000
Seat 4: Ian Gordon - 530,000
Seat 5: Brandon Adams - 350,000
Seat 6: John Hennigan - 115,000
Seat 7: Eugene Katchalov - 1,060,000
Seat 8: Richard Ashby - 635,000
Table 376
Seat 1: Roman Yitzhaki - 165,000
Seat 2: Nick Schulman - 570,000
Seat 3: Marco Traniello - 230,000
Seat 4: Cuong Do - 465,000
Seat 5: Scott Fischman - 415,000
Seat 6: Brian Townsend - 453,000
Seat 7: Matt Glantz - 520,000
Seat 8: Carlos Mortensen - 385,000
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:09 PM Local Time
Omaha-8
Robert Mizrachi and Nick Schulman have been going after each other all day, both verbally and on the felt. Things came to a head on a flop, where they got three bets in. After the turn put a low on the board, Mizrachi fired again. Schulman raised him, and Mizrachi called all in.
Showdown
Mizrachi:
Schulman:
Mizrachi held a nine-high flush and an 8-5-4-3-A low. But he was drawing dead to Schulman's nut flush and nut low. Schulman took out his nemesis in 17th place and built his own stack to 610,000.
Down to 16, the rest of the field has paused to redraw to the final two tables.
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:58 PM Local Time
Omaha-8
Roman Yitzhaki raised it up from under the gun with Matt Glantz and Richard Ashby making the call in the blinds.
The flop landed and Glantz led out with a bet. Ashby folded and Yitzhaki made the call.
Both players checked the turn before the landed on the river. Glantz checked, Yitzhaki fired a bet and Glantz made the call.
Glantz opened but Yitzhaki scooped with his for top two pair and seven-low. Yitzhaki is up to 240,000 with Glantz slipping to 315,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:53 PM Local Time
Stud-8
Michael Chow: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen: (X-X) / / (X)
Brandon Adams: (X-X) / / (X)
There was already nearly 200,000 in the middle when Carlos Mortensen bet out on sixth street. Brandon Adams raised him, and after playing the previous streets passively, Michael Chow tanked, then three-bet. Both his opponents were visibly surprised, but paid for one more card. It checked around on seventh, and Show turned over for aces and sevens. "One time," he said quietly as the other two squeezed their cards. Mortensen mucked, and Adams let out a slow breath before following suit.
Chow scooped the massive pot, moving from fairly short to 530,000. Mortensen fell to 270,000 and was forced to dip into the top tiers of his chip sculpture. And Brandon Adams is down to 200,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:50 PM Local Time
Robert Mizrachi doesn't seem to have many fans at his table. At the start of a stud hand, he stopped the dealer and told her that the way she was holding the deck, he could see the bottom card. The rest of the table didn't believe him and told her to keep dealing. The floor was called over, and Mizrachi told them he'd seen an ace while everyone else said he was just trying to stall.
"I think he's just full of it," Nick Schulman said. "I'm the f*#^king bring in, and I'm fighting this."
In the end, the floor decided they had to kill the hand and start over, and asked the dealer to handle the deck more carefully. Still, they suggested Mizrachi "stop costing us time." The grumbling continued well into the next hand. "I see a nine of diamonds in the middle of the deck," Schulman said. "Better redeal."
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:29 PM Local Time
Stud
The short stack of Todd Brunson was all in with his tournament life on the line against Brandon Adams. The boards were spread:
Brunson: ( ) / / ( )
Adams: ( ) / / ( )
Neither player had a pair until Adams paired up on the river for a pair of kings to eliminate Brunson in 18th place. Adams is at 240,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:03 PM Local Time
Since they ended with an odd number of levels last night, we get a 20-minute break after only one today. Back at 4:20.
Friday, June 25, 2010 3:00 PM Local Time
Razz
The courageous run of Scotty Nguyen has come to an end with his elimination in 19th place. Nguyen was all in on third street against Carlos Mortensen with the boards running out as follows:
Nguyen: ( ) / / ( )
Mortensen: ( ) / / ( )
Mortensen made a seventy-six low and Nguyen bricked out to send the Prince to the rail in 19th place. Mortensen has created one of his famous chip tower structures, so it's rather difficult to count at the moment, but we'll guess around 500,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 2:59 PM Local Time
Razz
The Prince of Poker is on death watch now that he's lost any breathing room he'd bought himself in the last hour.
Scotty Nguyen: (X-X) / / (X)
Michael Chow: (X-X) / / (X)
Chow bet every street, and Nguyen called down through sixth. He peeked at his final down card and had to fold to one last bet. Having missed his expensive draw, Nguyen left himself with 45,000, less than two big bets.
Friday, June 25, 2010 2:44 PM Local Time
Omaha-8
Marco Johnson raised from the cutoff and Todd Brunson flat-called in position on the button.
Johnson fired three streets of value on the board of with Brunson calling him down.
Johnson showed for a full house and nut low to scoop as Brunson sighed and mucked.
Brunson is down to around 115,000 with Johnson now into the chip lead with 770,000.
Friday, June 25, 2010 2:36 PM Local Time
Stud-8
Pawel Andrzejewski and Michael Chow tangled in a hand of Stud-8 with Andrzejewski all in by sixth street.
Chow: ( ) / / ( )
Andrzejewski: ( ) / / ( )
Chow made a pair of nines and only low to scoop and eliminate Andrzejewski in 20th place.
Friday, June 25, 2010 2:36 PM Local Time
Hold'em
The short stack of Abe Mosseri was all in preflop during hold'em against Matt Glantz.
Mosseri:
Glantz:
Glantz was in a dominant position and it stayed that way on the board of . Mosseri is out as Glantz stacks up 230,000 chips.