Maurice Hawkins opened the pot and Bill “Trey” Burton moved all in for a touch over 40,000. Hawkins had a quick glance at his opponent’s stack and called.
Bill Burton:
Maurice Hawkins
The board ran out . Burton looked a relieved man to have doubled up as the bubble creeps closer while Hawkins got back to work on the next hand opening another pot.
According to the table, Navot Golan built up his massive 345,000-chip stack by cracking aces, all in before the flop.
Golan held ace-king, and was all in against ace-ten and pocket aces. The dealer put two kings on the flop and left the other two players drawing virtually dead.
Golan now sits on a "Monster" stack and is leading his table by heaps.
Scott Baumstein was in the cutoff and raised to 4,000 and the big blind defended. The flop was and after it was checked to him Baumstein bet 5,000 and was called. Both players then checked the turn and river.
The big blind tabled for a pair of sevens and Baumstein showed for the same pair but with a bigger kicker to take down the pot.
There was an all-in shove from a late position player and a call from Satsuki Ochiai before Dong Guo moved all in as well. Ochiai called Guo's push, too, and the three players showed their cards:
First player:
Satsuki Ochiai:
Dong Guo:
The board ran out . A jack in the window gave brief hope to the short stack, but the queen on flop and river busted him while leaving Guo decidedly low on chips. The busted player took a photo on his phone as a souvenir before departing.
There was an open from early position, then Mark Wahba moved all in and was followed by another all-in push from Jalal Shamroukh. The original raiser had them covered and gave it some thought, but eventually folded.
Mark Wahba:
Jalal Shamroukh:
“Are you kidding?” Wahba asked. “Every time I go in with this I run in to the same hand.”
The flop was all clubs giving Shamroukh a freeroll draw to the nut flush, and Wahba suddenly went silent and stared at the board.
There was no club on the turn, nor on the river. The tension broke and Wahba seemed less annoyed than he had been mere seconds before.