From the hijack seat, Brian Roberts raised to 14,000. Jonathan Duhamel called out of the big blind, and the flop produced the . Duhamel checked, and Roberts checked.
The turn was the , and both players checked again. Then, the paired the board on the river. Duhamel checked, and Roberts bet 21,000. Duhamel folded, and Roberts picked up the pot.
Over on table eight there was only one flop between Mike Leah and Mohsin Charania in a battle of the blinds whereas most other hands were either decided via preflop raise or successful three-bet. Then, Leah raised to 12,000 and Michael Egan moved all in for 109,000 from the button. Both players in the blinds quickly folded and Leah called.
Egan:
Leah:
The IveyPoker pro didn't find any help on the board and Egan doubled up.
On the flop, two former World Series of Poker Main Event champions locked horns in 2010 winner Jonathan Duhamel and 2012 winner Greg Merson.
Merson bet 18,000, and Duhamel made the call to see the land on the turn. After Merson checked the turn, Duhamel bet 35,000. Merson called, and the dealer completed the board with the on the river. Merson grabbed some chips and bet 47,000. Duhamel had 210,000 behind and took some time. He eventually made the fold, though, and Merson won the pot.
We're not sure how the chips went in, but a big three-way pot went down between David Steicke, Richard Lyndaker, and Mike Watson. The former two were all in, with Lyndaker being the shortest stack.
Watson:
Lyndaker:
Steicke:
Watson was ahead, but not after the flop gave both Lyndaker and Steicke a pair of aces. Lyndaker was best thanks to his kicker, but Steicke was ahead in the side pot. Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Lyndaker tripled, Steicke collected the side pot, and Watson was left with just 11,000.
In the next hand, Lyndaker raised to 12,000 from the cutoff and Watson called off for 10,000 from the small blind. Andrew Hinrichsen came along from the big and the two active players checked the flop. When the appeared on the turn, Lyndaker called a bet of 7,000 from Hinrichsen and then folded to one of 9,000 on the river.
Hinrichsen tabled the for two pair, and it was good as Watson held .
Andrew Hinrichsen opened with a raise and then called when Jarred Graham three-bet jammed.
Hinrichsen:
Graham:
The flop kept Graham firmly in the lead, but the turn gave Hinrichsen a straight draw to a nine to go with his over. Wouldn't you know it, the spiked on the river to give Hinrichsen the straight and send Graham out the door via a bad beat. With that, just 16 players remain and are redrawing down to the final two tables.
[Removed:17] made it 11,000 to go from under the gun. Mike Leah called from the cutoff seat in the next chair, and then Sam Khouiss closed the action with a call out of the big blind. On the flop, Khouiss checked, and Yan bet 16,000. Leah and Khouiss folded, and Yan picked up the pot.
From the hijack seat, Richard Lyndaker raised to 10,500. Action moved over to Mike Watson in the small blind, and he reraised to 25,500 with 144,000 behind. In the big blind was Sean Winter, and Winter had reraising ideas of his own and stuffed in all of his chips, having both Lyndaker and Watson covered.
Lyndaker folded, leaving himself with 86,000 in chips, and Watson also gave it up. Winter pulled in the pot and moved to 550,000 in chips.