Preflop Jeff Carris opened with a raise. Action folded to Darren Elias who moved all in for roughly 15,000. Action folded back around to Carris who made the call.
Carris:
Elias:
The board ran out giving Carris the nut flush and removing Darren Elias from the tournament.
Chris Johnson jammed 10,500 from late position, and Riley Fuller made the call from the big blind.
Johnson:
Fuller:
The flop bore fruit for both players: . Fuller had flopped a pair, but Johnson had an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. The turn came , completing Johnson's flush and ending the hand.
Eric Baldwin fired a bet of 7,200 after an opponent checked to him on an board. His opponent thought for a bit before calling. The river was an , completing a diamond flush possibility and pairing the board. Baldwin's opponent checked, and Baldwin checked behind him. Baldwin's opponent showed , and Baldwin mucked.
Andreas Hoivold opened with a raise to 2,300. Nacho Barbero called before Andrew Teng reraised to 8,700. Only Barbero called.
The flop came down and both players checked. The turn was the and both players checked again. On the river Barbero put out a bet of 12,300.
Teng went into the tank and he was there for nearly three minutes. Finally he grabbed a stack of chips and made a reraise to 25,000 even.
This put Barbero into the tank. "Could you have ace king?" he asked. "That's the only hand I'm beating." Eventually Barbero threw in several chips signifying a call.
"If you have a straight you're good," Teng said, turning over his for trips. Barbero did have a straight, he turned over for a a turned broadway straight and he scooped the big pot.
Bret Martin and Zohair Karim took a flop of . Karim bet 7,300 and was called by Martin. On the turn both players checked a . The river came the . It was on Karim who started shuffling chips for quite sometime. Then with a crooked armed movement Karim bet out 20,900. This was a pot size bet. Martin decided to call and find out Karim's holdings.
Karim showed the for a pair of kings which was good for the win. Martin went down to 38,000 while Karim went up to over 100,000.
We were hanging around Jesse Sylvia's table when we saw his good friend and the woman with the most earnings in poker, Vanessa Selbst, come give him a chat.
She greeted him by remembering, "I was watching you in the hall when you took out Jeremy Ausmus with Ace-Nine. I nearly cried!"
She was referring to Slyvia's 2012 Main Event Run when he knocked out Ausmus when he called with a pair of nines and eliminated Ausmus in fifth place. They had a good laugh and smile about the good old days and then Slyvia wished Selbst good luck in the Seven Card Stud Event and they parted ways.