With over 30,000 chips in the pot, the board was between Thibaud Guenegou and Robert Mizrachi. Guenegou checked the river and Mizrachi bet 11,000. Guenegou check-raised to 41,000. Mizrachi tanked for a bit and then gave it up, allowing Guenegou to win the pot.
Our very own EricRamsey (taught him all he knows) reported earlier how a slice of luck resulted in McLean Karr dodging an early crash. Since then he has increased his WSOPE ME net worth to 152,000 by decimating the stack of Lari Sihvo.
Karr raised to 5,000 in the cut-off and Lari Sihvo defended his big blind. The flop had more spades on it than a graveyard's annual convention - - and Sihvo check-called a 6,700 Karr c-bet. The turn was the and Sihvo once again checked to Karr. The only part of Karr's body that moved was his hands as he moved 12,600 chips into the middle and Sihvo called. We had one more card to come and Sihvo had 54,000 when he checked. Karr made his third bet and it was 28,800. Sihvo did not like this bet, one bit, and went into the tank. Meanwhile Tony G sat down and after a period of five-minutes called the clock on Sihvo. The floor was called and Sihvo called before he could start counting. Karr neatly turned over for top set and Sihvo folded and handed over the chips.
Hoyt Corkins came into the pot raising with his big stack, and Carlo Savinelli three-bet shoved for 36,500 total. Corkins quickly called with , and Savinelli was in a bad way with .
One-by-one, though, the dealer placed the flop cards out on board: ... ... ! That's a good start for Savinelli, and the turn and river secured his unlikely double. He's back around 80,000, while Corkins slips down into the pack a bit with 360,000 or so.
From under the gun plus one, Matt Waxman raised to 5,000. Thibaud Guenegou called from the hijack seat, Sergey Tikhonov called from the small blind and Tom Bedell called from the big blind. All four players saw the flop come down and action checked to Waxman. He bet 6,500 and Guenegou folded. Tikhonov and Bedell came along to see the turn.
The turn paired the board with the and Tikhonov led out for 12,000. After Bedell folded, Waxman made the call.
The river completed the board with the and Tikhonov moved all in. Waxman quickly called and showed the for a full house. Tikhonov mucked his hand and Waxman won the pot. He was all in on the river for 32,400 and is now over 130,000 in chips.
Dan Smith has been involved in a lot of all-in contests today and he was just in another. This time he was on the winning end of things and sent Vadim Ifergan to the rail.
The two players were all in preflop. Ifergan held the to Smith's . The board ran out and Smith's full house won the pot.
First into the pot, Artem Litvinov raised to 5,200. Next door was Mike "GoLeafsGoEh" Leah, and he stuck out a big three-bet -- it looked like 35,200. Litvinov had about 65,000 chips left in his stack, about half what he began the day with. He spent a couple long minutes in the tank, fiddling with a silver coin in his lap. Finally, he flipped it into the air, caught it, checked the face, and quickly open-mucked .
"You should have let it hit the floor," Leah said with a smirk.
John Duthie limped in from early position and Michel Carvin limped from the button. In the small blind was Matan Krakow and he raised to 10,500. Freddy Deeb folded his big blind and then Duthie and Carvin both folded as well to give Krakow the pot. He showed just the and claimed, "I had it."
John Eames has not had a bad WSOPE. He made the final table of Event #2, €1,090 NLHE where he finished in 7th place for €22,449 and also cashed in Event #6, €1,620 Six-Max PLO in 32nd place for €2,616. Today he has a tough task because he is playing the 26BB stack, meaning he is going to have to get lucky, somewhere along the way, if he is to join Shawn Buchanan as a three-time 2011 WSOPE casher. Here he is trying to find some of that luck but not getting any eventual need of it.
Anthony Lellouche raised to 5,400 in the hijack and and when it folded around to Eames in the big blind he moved all-in but Lellouche folded instantly.
Dan Smith just doubled another player up in Michel Carvin. After Smith opened with a raise to 5,500 from the hijack seat, Carvin moved all in from the small blind for 38,200. Smith called with the . Carvin held the .
The board ran out and Carvin made a straight to double up.