After it was brought in with a , Adam Friedman completed and David Benyamine called. The latter then led out on fourth, the former called and it was off to fifth. Friedman took the lead and promptly bet, which Benyamine called. The action repeated itself on sixth, and then Friedman bet dark headed to seventh. Benyamine looked down at a second , flashed it and then folded. Friedman showed in the whole and another on seventh for a 7-6-4-3-2 low.
Adam Friedman raised from the cutoff only to have a short-stacked Konstantin Puchkov three-bet to 45,000 from the small blind, leaving himself a single orange T1,000 chip behind. The big folded and Friedman four-bet. Konstantin called off his last chip and the cards were turned up:
Puchkov:
Friedman:
"How am I going to win this one?" Friedman asked aloud after the flop fell .
"Five or nine," Greg Mueller responded. No sooner did he say it than the dealer burned and turned the . Puchkov's face dropped and he watched helplessly as the useless completed the board on the river.
Friedman won the hand with a pair of nines while Puchkov shook hands with the remaining players and then exited in eighth place.
David Benyamine made it 30,000 to go and Benjamin Scholl made the call to see a flop fall. Benyamine continued for 15,000 only to have Scholl raise. Benyamine three-bet to 45,000 and Scholl called before Benyamine bet and then called all-in on the on the turn.
Benyamine:
Scholl:
The river landed the and both players chopped it up.
Chris Klodnicki made it 30,000 to go and Greg Mueller called from the big blind. Both players checked the flop before Mueller led out when the landed on the turn.
Klodnicki called, and then bet the on the river only to have Mueller muck his for a bricked flush and low wrap-around.
Greg "FBT" Mueller raised to 30,000 from early position and Konstantin Puchkov called from middle position. Benjamin Scholl came along from the big blind and three players saw a flop of . Scholl checked, Mueller bet and Puchkov got out of the way. Scholl then woke up with a check-raise, Mueller called and the dealer burned and turned the .
Scholl bet, Mueller called and then both players checked the river. Scholl rolled over the for trip fours, and it was good as Mueller flashed before sending his cards to the muck.
David Benyamine made it 30,000 to go from early position only to have Viatcheslav Ortynskiy three-bet to 45,000. Benyamine called before check-calling 15,000 on the flop.
The turn of the was greeted with another bet by Ortynskiy for 30,000 and Benyamine made the call before opting to check-fold for 30,000 when Ortynskiy led out when the landed.
To say this final table is accomplished is an understatement. It is literally full of some of the best mixed game players in the world, many who've had success in the past and some more recently.
While this isn't mixed game per se, it does feature the five H.O.R.S.E. variants, and one man who knows how to drive a horse (both literally and as it applies to the game) is Konstantin Puchkov. Not only has he worked as a horse driver, he won the 2010 WSOP Event #31 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. for $256,820.
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. Puchkov's face dropped and he watched helplessly as the useless 
completed the board on the river.
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flop fall. Benyamine continued for 15,000 only to have Scholl raise. Benyamine three-bet to 45,000 and Scholl called before Benyamine bet and then called all-in on the 
on the turn.
and both players chopped it up.
flop before Mueller led out when the 
landed on the turn.
for a bricked flush and low wrap-around.
. Scholl checked, Mueller bet and Puchkov got out of the way. Scholl then woke up with a check-raise, Mueller called and the dealer burned and turned the 
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river. Scholl rolled over the 
flop.
was greeted with another bet by Ortynskiy for 30,000 and Benyamine made the call before opting to check-fold for 30,000 when Ortynskiy led out when the 
landed.
board was checked down with Mueller tabling his 
