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 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.
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.
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.
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.
They announced the winner of the WSOP Hot Seat for this event and the winner was seated at Table 387 Seat 9. The whole Amazon Room turned their heads to see who it was. At first glance it appeared to be Barry Greenstein but after further counting of chairs we realized he was sitting in the Seat 8. Greenstein laughed and blurted, "Just my Luck" as Nolan Dalla commented on Greenstein being the bubble of the hot seat.
The winner was in fact Amir Rastkhiz from Phoenix, Arizona. He will get $100 deposited into his wsop.com account when he signs up for an account and the site becomes legal for real money players. If only Rastkhiz signed up for wsop.com he would have received $500 for signing up and wearing the WSOP sponsored patch.
If you have not gone already then go sign up for wsop.com and get ready for this site to become legal in the upcoming months. If for no other reason you have a chance to win $500 if your a hot seat player and also chances to win seats into bracelet events. Sign up today, now, or on your next break.
Max Pescatori is only been playing for an hour but he has already almost doubled his starting stack. He's up to 8,800 now after just eliminating a player with preflop all in against . Pescatori hit an ace on the turn and river to send his opponent packing. "Nice job dealer" said the player with a big wink and laugh after being eliminated. Pescatori didn't laugh and just focused on stacking his chips.
. 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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
. Baumstein turned over his 
on the river.
. Pescatori hit an ace on the turn and river to send his opponent packing. "Nice job dealer" said the player with a big wink and laugh after being eliminated. Pescatori didn't laugh and just focused on stacking his chips.
