We arrived on the flop as we saw Scott Baumstein check-raise JJ Liu allin: . Liu made one of the fastest calls in the history of poker as she was the proud owner of the nuts: . Baumstein turned over his and wouldn;t improve: on the turn and on the river.
Kathy Liebert just opened the hijack with a raise to 400, and called as her neighbor made it 1,075 to go from the cutoff. Liebert checked on and called when the cutoff shoved allin for 2,500. Liebert turned over the speculative which had made her a pair of eights. She was in great shape against the cutoff's but her hand wouldn't hold. The on the turn gave her a flush draw on top of her already leading hand, but the filled up the cutoff's straight and secured him the pot.
In rapid fashion we've cleared the Pavilion Room today. Tables are broken every couple of minutes and we suspect that in about 20 minutes no one in the Pavilion Room is playing the $1,500 event anymore. There's still enough players in this room though, but that's Daily Deepstack, cash game players, satellites and sit & go's going on.
On the table were five community cards already: | | . In front of one player were two 500 chips, in front of Max Silver's stack five 1,000 chips. Silver had put the pressure on but wasn't ready for what would follow: all in. The player had moved all in over Silver's raise for not that much more, but Silver had no intention of calling. He folded and without a showdown lost half his stack.
Four players took a flop with each putting 700 chips in the middle preflop. One of those players was Barry Greenstein out of the big blind. The flop came . Player 1 checked, Player 2 (Greenstein) checked, and player 3 pushed all in for 2,900. Player 4 called the 2,900 and Player 1 folded. Action was then back on to Greenstein who re-shipped all in for a few thousand more. Player 3 called Greenstein's all in and the three players cards were flipped.
Greenstein:
Player 3:
Player 4:
According to PokerNews Poker Odds Calculator Greenstein had a 95% chance of winning the hand with his flopped full house. The turn brought the and that increased Greenstein's odds to 97.62%. Only a three would win it for Player 3. The river was the and Greenstein locked up the hand.
Greenstein knocked out Player 3 and Crippled Player 4. He is now up to 15,000 in chips.
On a flop Cary Katz got his last chips in with . Unfortunately for him his opponent had for the higher flush draw. Both hit their draws on the turn () which left Katz drawing dead. "Yeah, I hit my flush!" he laughed while he already excited the tournament. We're not sure if he ever saw the on the river, but it couldn't save him anyway.
We spotted Shannon Shorr as he must have late registered. As soon as we saw him he was all in against an opponent. His was racing against his opponents . The flop brought no help with the but the turn changed things a bit with the . Now Shorr just needed to dodge a ten and he would be safe.
The river... and just like that Shorr was out faster then he came.
Eddie Struckman was behind preflop when he went all-in with his last 1600. His opponent called and turned over . To his disappointment, Struckman turned over .
Luckily, the flop came , not only hitting Struckman's set, but also giving him fives full of jacks. The turn was the inconsequential .
The river really rubbed it in when the dealer laid down the , making quads for Struckman and doubling him up to 3500 to stay alive in today's tournament.