Vanessa Selbst raised to either 7,000 or 6,000 on the button; both Phil Hellmuth and Matthew Ashton called from the blinds. Hellmuth and Ashton both checked on a flop of , Selbst continued for 11,500 and Hellmuth check-raised to 23,000. Only Selbst called.
The turn was the , Hellmuth checked again and Selbst fired out 26,500. Hellmuth called.
The river was the , both players checked and Hellmuth took the pot with for jacks and nines.
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JC Tran raised to 9,000 on the button, Ryan Fee called out of the big blind and both players checked on a flop of . The turn was a repeat five - the - and Fee checked again. Tran tossed out 11,000, Fee check-raised to 35,000 and Tran called.
The completed the board and Fee fired out 84,000 (roughly 60% of his stack). Tran folded.
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Todd Terry opened for 10,000 from the hijack only to have Chuck Pacheco three-bet all in from the button. The blinds folded and Terry, who had the smaller stack, called off for 73,000.
Pacheco:
Terry:
Terry had the better ace, but the flop made things interesting as Pacheco picked up a flush draw. Terry sighed, but his frustration was for nothing as neither the turn nor river gave Pacheco the flush.
"Wow, what a sweat," Terry said as he counted down his stack.