Dan "Jungleman" Cates was down to just a tenth of a starting stack earlier in the day but has since climbed back to above starting stack.
In a heads-up pot against recent double Dealer's Choice champion Chad Eveslage, Eveslage checked on the 8♦4♠4♦ flop and Cates checked back. Eveslage checked again on the A♣ turn and folded when faced with a bet from Cates.
Greg Mueller raised on the button and Brian Rast and Matthew Ashton called out of the blinds.
Ashton and Rast checked on the 8♣4♥A♠ and called a bet from Mueller. The two checked again on the 9♦ turn and Mueller once again bet. Rast called and Ashton check-raised. Mueller three-bet and Rast and Ashton both called.
Rast and Ashton checked on the J♦ river and called a final bet from Mueller, who tabled 8♦8♥5♥3♠ to win the high with a set of eights as Rast showed 6♣3♥2♠2♣ to win the low.
Scott Seiver: 4♥4♦J♣/4♣J♥10♥9♣
Talal Shakerchi: 7♦J♦K♦/6♠6♦5♦5♣
Anthony Zinno: XxXx/2♦
Anthony Zinno brought it in with the 2♦. Talal Shakerchi put out the first bet. Scott Seiver called and Zinno folded.
On fourth street Shakerchi bet and Seiver called. On fifth street the action went bet and call again. Sixth street brought the same bet and call and seventh street was no different with a bet and call again.
Seiver made a boat and scooped the pot with no low by either player.
Picking action up on the 7♠2♥4♣ flop in a raised pot with josh Arieh in the big blind and Chris Moneymaker in the cutoff, Arieh bet 16,000 and got a call from Moneymaker.
The players checked the 9♣ turn, but on the 6♣ river, Arieh flicked in a bet of 10,000. Moneymaker shook his head slightly and tossed his cards to the muck.
In other news from Table 118, Dan Smith has joined the field after his 6th place finish in the $250,000 Super High-Roller event.
Ben Lamb: XxXx/7♥A♥7♦9♠/Xx
Felipe Ramos: 10♠5♠2♣/K♠J♦J♠Kx
Ben Lamb completed and called a raise from Felipe Ramos. Lamb then led out on fourth street and Ramos called. Ramos checked after pairing his jack on fifth street and Lamb checked back. Ramos then bet on sixth street and Lamb called.
Ramos checked on seventh street and Lamb checked back as Ramos tabled the winner with kings and jacks.
After Tony Gregg raised in the hijack to 6,500, Paul Volpe three-bet to 19,000 on the button. Gregg toom some time to make his decision and then called and patted his hand.
Volpe remained pat as well, and after their non-draw drawing round, Gregg checked. Volpe took a moment and then checked back to see Gregg's 9x8x7x6x4x, while Volpe could only show a ten-low, sending the pot to Gregg.
Meanwhile, David Williams and and Daniel Zack have joined the field.
Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman has seen the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in all of its iterations. Harman won two bracelets when the World Series played at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas and made several final tables after the transition to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the mid-2000s.
Now, 27 years after her first WSOP final table in 1996, Harman finds herself at yet another World Series rendition at the rebranded Horseshoe Casino on the Strip. And while the golden U-shaped emblem outside the hotel is by and large the same, Harman said the modern venue doesn't compare to the WSOP's original home.
"It was such a cool atmosphere playing at Binion's; it's just nothing like that," Harman told PokerNews. "Now it's just like, you know, poker blew up and it's more ... it's still a really cool atmosphere, but it's just different. It's not a small room, musty, that kind of stuff. But it's still really cool. Poker's still really popular, so that's a pretty awesome thing."
PokerNews caught up with Harman last week as she played Day 1 of Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 WSOP to ask about her summer schedule, pick for the Poker Hall of Fame and her memories with the late Doyle Brunson.
