With 36,000 in the pot through the turn on a board, Jared Hamby checked from the small blind and his opponent on the button moved all in for more than 50,000! Hamby had a decent stack of 32,000 behind and was put to the test.
Hamby tanked for a solid three minutes, oftentimes visibly shaking. Clearly this was a tough decision and a crucial point in his tournament. He must have decided there would be a better spot as Hamby eventually laid down his hand.
When walking past Table 369, we noticed that Patrick Coughlin had four-bet to over 15,000 preflop - more enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent, who was using a toy train car as a card protector, stacked his last few chips on the mini locomotive, and pushed it forward.
Opponent:
Coughlin:
Coughlin held as the board ran , pushing his stack to an impressive 118,000 chips.
Tony Cousineau's 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event has come to an end. He was just eliminated by Grant Hillman in the following hand.
Action folded to Cousineau in the cutoff seat and he raised to 1,025. Hillman was in the small blind and when action got to him, he three-bet to 2,525. Play got back to Cousineau and he four-bet all in. Hillman called.
Hillman:
Cousineau:
The flop, turn and river ran out to keep Hillman's aces in the lead. At the final count, Hillman's 20,050 was more than what Cousineau began the hand with and he was eliminated from the tournament.
From early position, Lars Bonding raised to 900. Action folded around to the player in the small blind and he reraised to 2,400. Bonding made the call and then the dealer ran the flop. The small blind continued with a bet of 3,400. Bonding called.
The turn brought the and the small blind fired 6,200. Bonding called again to see the river.
The paired the board on the river and the small blind fired all in for 20,475. Bonding began to tank after getting a count from the dealer. Bonding tanked for several long minutes before finally making what looked to be a very painful fold.
Just as Ivan Demidov got himself all in, the ESPN cameras swarmed, and it sort of bumped us out of a line of sight. We only have tidbits. Demidov was all in with , and Beth Creedmoor was slightly behind but drawing live to the knockout with her .
The board was... well, we're really not too sure. But we did see the somewhere in there, and that was all Creedmoor needed to send the 2008 runner up on his way. You'll see the rest on TV, we suppose.
Alex Kravchenko's table (which he shared with Jeff Lisandro) was moved to the mothership feature area but the Russian has since been eliminated from the tournament, there will be no repeat of 2007 for him this time.
A player in middle position opened for 800, the player to his left called, and it folded around to Joseph Cheong in the big blind who called as well.
The flop came . Cheong checked, the preflop raiser bet 1,500, the third player called, and Cheong called as well. The turn was the . Cheong checked again, and the raiser kept at it, firing 4,000 this time. His neighbor to his left folded, and Cheong considered the situation. He asked what his opponent had left -- about 11,000 -- then called the bet.
The river brought the , a possible filler of straight or flush draws. Cheong didn't hesitate at all, setting out a column of chips totaling 37,000, well above what his opponent had left. About 15 seconds later, his opponent's cards were heading to the dealer face down, and the pot was being swept to Cheong.
After that one, last year's third-place finisher in the 2010 WSOP Main Event is now sitting with about 54,000.
The board read when we arrived at Steven "PiKappRaider" Burkholder's table. He was heads up with an opponent who checked, and Burkholder tossed out 2,100. His opponent check-raised to 6,000, and Burkholder tank-called.
Burkholder's opponent mucked, and Burkholder opened up for top two pair.
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board, Jared Hamby checked from the small blind and his opponent on the button moved all in for more than 50,000! Hamby had a decent stack of 32,000 behind and was put to the test.
, pushing his stack to an impressive 118,000 chips.
to keep Hillman's aces in the lead. At the final count, Hillman's 20,050 was more than what Cousineau began the hand with and he was eliminated from the tournament.
flop. The small blind continued with a bet of 3,400. Bonding called.
and the small blind fired 6,200. Bonding called again to see the river.
paired the board on the river and the small blind fired all in for 20,475. Bonding began to tank after getting a count from the dealer. Bonding tanked for several long minutes before finally making what looked to be a very painful fold.
, and Beth Creedmoor was slightly behind but drawing live to the knockout with her 
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somewhere in there, and that was all Creedmoor needed to send the 2008 runner up on his way. You'll see the rest on TV, we suppose.
. Cheong checked, the preflop raiser bet 1,500, the third player called, and Cheong called as well. The turn was the 
. Cheong checked again, and the raiser kept at it, firing 4,000 this time. His neighbor to his left folded, and Cheong considered the situation. He asked what his opponent had left -- about 11,000 -- then called the bet.
, a possible filler of straight or flush draws. Cheong didn't hesitate at all, setting out a column of chips totaling 37,000, well above what his opponent had left. About 15 seconds later, his opponent's cards were heading to the dealer face down, and the pot was being swept to Cheong.
