A Benji a Day Keeps the Showers Away
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A few minutes ago, as the bubble continued to linger endlessly, Paul Volpe challenged Jason Mercier to 10 hands of Open-Face Chinese Poker on the iPad app. Mercier wanted to play for $100 per point, but Volpe brought it down to $50 per point.
Well, Mercier proceeded to mash Volpe in the 10 hands, including one hand where he made a full house in the back, aces-up in the middle, and a pair of jacks up top, another where he was dealt eights full of deuces, and in the 10th and final hand, he made fantasy land. In fantasy land, he made a flush in the back, the wheel in the middle, and king-high up top.
Volpe told Mercier that he was going to go on a payment plan, and that he would give Mercier a $100 bill everyday for the rest of the series. Mercier agreed, and Volpe reached deep into his pocket for a Benjamin. He flicked it over to Mercier who snatched it off of the felt, and slid it into his own pocket.
Its been a nice bubble for me so far. Played @paulgees81 in 12 hands of ofc 50/pt. showered him for 76 PTs #printing http://t.co/CpDQUccnXQFollow @JasonMercier
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. Paul Volpe, who was in the big blind, kept his cards hidden, but told Mark Herm that he has "burgers."
. Dan checked to Steven who fired out 22,500. Dan check-potted, basically going all in, and Steven folded.
- and the flop fell 
on the turn gave Traniello a gut-shot straight draw, but Volpe held two deuces and Herm admitted to "folding a burger."
- completed the board, and Traniello doubled to 2,000.
), turn (
), and the river (
). but the action was forced to halt before cards were turned over because adjacent tables still had action. At the next table over, Ted Lawson was not aware that this was occurring, because he sat with action on his hand until he chirped up and asked the floor why the hands hadn't been tabled yet. When he learned that they would be shown once action was completed at all tables, he finally decided to fold his hand. A moment later, the hand at his table came to a close and the hands were tabled.
for trip nines, but both of his opponents had a spade for the flush. Herm showed 
but was bested by Danchev's 
. Danchev scooped the pot, Traniello became the bubble boy, and the entire field went on break.
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finished off the board on the river. Makhija was the first player to leave with cash and will collect $7,881 in prize money.
flop. The 
came on the turn and it was looking likely that Volpe would scoop a nice pot here. Unfortunately for him, the 
peeled off on the river, giving Liu two pair and Vitkind a dominating pair of aces. Liu was able to triple to 51,000 while Volpe was eliminated from play. Vitkind had him covered and took down that side pot.
but was dominated by Holst's 
completed the board and Lawson was eliminated in 23rd place.
paired the board on the turn and Minieri needed to catch an ace or a king to win the pot. Fortunately for Danchev, the river was the 
, giving Mercier both backdoor straight and flush draws, and the 
