Brent Wheeler moved all in on a raise and a call preflop. Matt Moore made the call and the cards were flipped.
Wheeler:
Moore:
The flop could not have been worse for Wheeler as it came . That gave Moore the nut flush draw and top pair. The turn did not help Wheeler and he needed a nine to survive. The river, the , and that ended the day for Wheeler. Moore can be seen as a big stack with 215,000.
The name Mazin Khoury hasn't been featured in these updates much yet, but that's going to change. Khoury, a well known (online) player, just made a nice call in moderate pot. It's impossible to write anything about table dynamics and history, and on top of that we only wrote down the river action. It's still impressive though. The board read | | and Khoury had checked to his opponent. That gentleman bet 14,000 with just 19,000 behind. Khoury thought for not to long before calling. "Ace high" his opponent said, showing in the process. Khoury tabled and took down the pot.
John Racener made it 6,000 under-the-gun plus one, leaving him just 30,000 behind. He found one guy to see a flop with; Yury Gulyy on the button. Both players checked on the flop and they did so as well on the on the turn. The river was the and Racener bet 20,000, leaving him with just 10,000 for the moment. Gulyy didn't think to long and folded.
A player under the gun pushed his short stack all in preflop. Another player re-raised all in and then Simon Cremniter, an Athanasios Polychronopoulos look-a-like, moved all in as well. Everyone else folded and Cremniter was the shortest of the three all ins.
Cremniter:
Short Stack Opponent:
Other Opponent:
Cremniter was in the lead and held it throughout the hand as the board ran out . Cremniter tripled up to 55,500 after the hand.
Alex Bolotin opened from middle position and got a three bet by the player in the small blind. Bolotin thought about his options, and ended up raising to 40,000. "Ok, I'm all in" said the small blind, putting effectively 77,500 in the middle since that's what Bolotin had at the start of the hand. Bolotin made the call with his and was up against .
Bolotin flopped an ace on and didn't get in trouble after that with the on the turn and on the river.
Jed Hoffman and his opponent were all in preflop. Hoffman held and was well in front of his opponents . The flop came which gave Hoffman's opponent a flush draw. The turn did not change anything. The river won the hand for Hoffman and eliminated his opponent. With that Hoffman went up to 125,000 in chips.