Dylan Hortin brought it in with a king and Mike Leah completed to 250 with his ace. Bruno Portaro called with a three, Hortin came along, and it was off to fourth street. Leah kept the lead and bet another 250, which prompted both his opponents to fold.
"Pair, pair?" Leah asked his opponents. "I think everyone paired."
Leah then showed a in the hole for a pair of his own. Not much of a hand, but it gave us a goo excuse to update you on their counts.
Meanwhile, George Danzer has taken a seat in the tournament.
We picked up the action on fifth street when Vanessa Rousso bet 400 and Dylan Honeyman called her. Both players then checked sixth before Honeyman led out for 400 on the seventh. Rousso announced a raise to 800, and Honeyman didn't seem too excited. He made the call nonetheless and discovered the bad news as Rousso rolled over the nuts.
We picked up the action on sixth street when Daniel Negreanu checked his aces and Jeff Madsen, who was showing four diamonds, bet 400. Negreanu stood up and began counting Madsen's diamonds on his fingers.
"One, two, three, four," Negreanu joked. He then sat back down and made the call. Negreanu checked once again on seventh, and Madsen tossed out another 400. As he is prone to do, Negreanu began to talk out the hand.
"I have the ace of diamonds," he said, ruling that out of Madsen's hand. Eventually he made the call and was glad he did as all Madsen could muster was a pair of tens.
Daniel Negreanu has been seated at Table 28 and is to the direct right of Brandon Shack-Harris. Both players are competing for the 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year title, with Shack-Harris currently in the lead.
Negreanu is usually talkative and energetic, and today is no different. "Kid Poker" was recently spotted up out of his seat shadow-boxing before he turned his sights on Shack-Harris. He approached his POY competition and began throwing various jabs accompanied by sound effects.
Shack-Harris was smiling and jokingly warned Negreanu that he probably should pick a fight with someone used to being kicked and punched. You see, Shack-Harris is an experienced fighter both on and off the felt, a fact Negreanu recognized when he let out a little laugh, finished up his routine, and retook his seat.
It does beg the question, who would win in a literal fight between the two? Negreanu has been known to do Insanity from time to time, but we're thinking that is one match where youth would prevail.
In his first hand, he raised to 300 under the gun and was met by a three-bet to 800 from Jan Suchanek in the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded, and Zheng called to see the flop. Zheng proceeded to check-call a bet of 1,100 and then both players checked the turn. When the completed the board on the river, Zheng led out for 1,700 and Suchanek wasted little time in folding his cards.
In the last hand of limit hold'em at the feature table, Roland Israelashvili had just moved over and was placed in the big blind. Oliver Gill raised to 400 from the button, Israelashvili defended from the big blind, and the two saw a flop of .
Israelashvili checked, Gill bet 200, and Israelashvili woke up with a check-raise to 400. Gill called and then folded to a bet of 400 on the turn.