Action started when Brennan Benglis opened from the hijack to 6,000. Next to act in the cutoff was Gaelle Baumann who three-bet to 18,000. It folded back to Benglis who made the call.
The flop came and both players checked their option. On the turn Benglis bet 13,000 which was called.
The completed the board and both players checked. Benglis tabled for an over pair and a surprised looking Baumann mucked her hand, awarding the pot to Benglis.
John Turner made it 4,500 in middle position, the hijack made it 12,000. Marsel Backa called in the big blind.
The flop came . The hijack bet 14,000, Backa called and Turner folded. The turn was the , which both players checked. The river came the which was checked again.
Backa tabled the which was good enough to take the pot down and the hijack mucked while Backa added more chips to one of the largest stacks in the room.
Nick Maimone raised to 5,000 and picked up calls from Carlos Loving next to him, as well as the cutoff and the small blind.
The dealer showed a flop and the four players checked. When the showed up on the turn, the small blind checked to Maimone who bet 13,000 this time and only the cutoff stayed in the hand.
The paired the board on the river and both checked. Maimone tabled for top two pair and his opponent mucked.
"HOLD! HOLD! No King!" could be heard shouted across the bally's ballroom near the main stage. Brian "Woody" Wood was all in for his tournament life with against the of Benjamin "Spraggy" Spragg. Despite picking up a flush draw on the turn, Spragg bricked out and Wood scored a double up.
"Yeah, baby! Woohoo! Yeehaw!" Wood continued as he ran around the ballroom in celebration of his double-up. The loud outburst seemed to come out of nowhere and a large crowd gathered to see what the commotion was all about.
Was it a big pot? What happened? That's his chip stack? Those were just some of the questions being asked. It was a reaction made for winning $10,000,000 and the Main Event but Wood doubled up for a measly 15,000 chips, leaving him well below the average.
As the TV crews gathered around, the charade continued with Wood being the centerpiece. "I asked Chris Moneymaker to go for dinner the other day but he said he didn't know me."
Just then, Moneymaker showed up at the table from overhearing his name. As the two players embraced, more screaming and loud noises came from Wood.
"What is going on over here?" Joey Ingram was the next person to scope out the situation, checking up on Spraggy.
"What's your name?" Wood asked as many players and media burst into laughter.
In preflop action, Niv Decalo raised to 5,000 from under the gun and received a call from Jared Hyman to his right along with both of the blinds. The flop came down and Decalo bet 5,000, which was raised to 14,000 by Hyman. Both of the blinds folded and Decalo called.
A showed up on the turn and Decalo check-called Hyman's 18,000 bet.
Both checked the on the river and showed their hands. Hyman flipped up which was no good against Decalo's pocket pair that took down the pot.