After a raise to 900 and one call, Sam Higgs three-bet to 2,200 from the button. The initial raiser folded but the cold-caller moved all in for 18,000 chips with . Higgs called with and faded the flush draw of his opponent on a board of .
Shortly after he was involved in another pot after calling a raise to 1,000 and then also tossing in the extra 2,000 chips after the squeeze of the player in the cutoff. Higgs check-called 2,200 on the flop and 3,200 on the turn before both checked the river. The opponent showed and Higgs mucked.
A preflop raising war resulted in Canada's Mike Leah getting his stack of 10,000 all in preflop against John Moffitt.
Leah:
Moffitt:
Leah was in dire straits with the underpair, and he failed to catch as the board ran out a clean . With that, Leah became the first post-dinner casualty while Moffitt chipped up to 70,000.
As the other tables emptied, the final hand on Table 29 lasted 10 minutes into the dinner break. Asa Smith had raised, and there were two callers before Michael Addamo squeezed out of the big blind. Smith then four-bet to 5,900, and only Addamo called.
After the flop, Addamo check-called a bet of an unknown amount, and did the same on the turn for 11,500. The fell on the river, and Addamo checked. Smith asked Addamo for his stack size before moving all in for 38,675. Smith stared at the table just in front of him while Addamo was in the think tank for well over five minutes.
Eventually, Addamo threw a yellow T5,000 chip to the middle of the table and made the call for the vast majority of his own stack. Addamo would only muck his cards, though, as Smith showed the for top two pair. Addamo quickly left the tournament area, and Smith stacked the chips with shaky hands before also heading into the break.
Tobias Reinkemeier was already enjoying a great start on Day 1a of the Main Event and that just got even better.
Ashley Mason raised to 700 from under the gun, and the German three-bet to 1,800. Mason pondered about his next decision for a while, and then four-bet shoved for what looked like 11,000.
Reinkemeier snap-called and tabled the . Mason was in bad shape with the , and the board changed nothing to send him to the rail in the last hand before the dinner break.
After a player opened for a raise, Mike Leah three-bet jammed for 5,150 from middle position. George Sotiropoulos then called from the big blind and the original raiser folded.
Sotiropoulos:
Leah:
The flop gave both players a pair of aces, but of course Sotiropoulos' kicker had him out in front. That changed though as Leah paired his kicker on the turn. The river failed to help Sotiropoulos and he sent some chips over to Leah.
We happened upon the action with 10,000 or so in the pot and a board reading . Scott Wilson checked from the small blind and Sam Higgs, who recently won a bracelet in the WSOP APAC $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, bet 8,525 from middle position. Wilson thought for a few moments and then called.
"Good call," Higgs admitted, which prompted Wilson to tabled the . Higgs mucked.
. Higgs called with 
and faded the flush draw of his opponent on a board of 
.
flop and 3,200 on the 
turn before both checked the 
river. The opponent showed 
and Higgs mucked.
. With that, Leah became the first post-dinner casualty while Moffitt chipped up to 70,000.
for top two pair. Addamo quickly left the tournament area, and Smith stacked the chips with shaky hands before also heading into the break.
, and the 
flop gave both players a pair of aces, but of course Sotiropoulos' kicker had him out in front. That changed though as Leah paired his kicker on the 
turn. The 
river failed to help Sotiropoulos and he sent some chips over to Leah.
