The PokerNews Podcast crew covers several huge stories, including the PokerStars sale, Mike Matusow's penalty, and the decline of pot-limit hold'em. They are then joined by defending Main Event champion Ryan Riess to talk about his banner, his recent run bad, and much more.
Antonio Esfandiari was all in on a flop of with to his opponent's . The dealer dropped an on the turn and completed the board with a river , and Esfandiari scored the double up.
After the hand, Antonio said "I guess I won't be making the 10K before dinner..." and then followed that up with, "I'd love to get it in dark with somebody."
On a flop of , Mark Reilly was thinking of what action to take with a bet of 2,000 sitting in front of his opponent, Allen Kessler. After a minute, he raised to 6,500 and Kessler snap-shoved hardly a second after the raise hit the felt. Reilly called and showed the nut flush draw with to Kessler's flopped set with . The turn was the to add a straight draw to Reilly's outs. The river fell and Reilly completed the straight to win the pot, eliminating Kessler from the tournament.
"So disgusting," Kessler muttered as he walked away from the table.
We didn't see any of the action but, when we arrived at the table, Liv Boeree was all in and Rostislav Tsodikov and an opponent were battling heads-up in a side pot. With the board reading , Boeree tabled . It was not good as Tsodikov flipped over and the other player in the hand mucked. Boeree was sent to the rail and a large pot was pushed towards Tsodikov.
A unanimous decision was cast at table #10 in the blue section of the Brasilia room, that David Jackson should buy a lottery ticket tonight. Some even offered to cover a piece of the action.
Apparently David has been running hot lately.
We arrived at the table on the river, with Jackson covering two players all in and three sets of cards on their backs.
Jackson had , the shortest stack had , and the other opponent had . Jackson had flopped a one-outter giving him a set of nines and it held to bust both opponents and scoop the large pot.
Jonas Mackoff, better known as "donut604" online, pushed his short stack all in from middle position, and the player immediately to his left pushed over the top with barely any more chips. Everyone else folded and Mackoff turned over in resignation. His opponent had him beat with his . The flop came and the kings were still good. The turn was the . The river was yet another diamond, but neither player held one to match in their hand to complete the flush. It was the and Mackoff won the pot with the highest pair.
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with 
to his opponent's 
on the turn and completed the board with a river 
, and Esfandiari scored the double up.
, Mark Reilly was thinking of what action to take with a bet of 2,000 sitting in front of his opponent, Allen Kessler. After a minute, he raised to 6,500 and Kessler snap-shoved hardly a second after the raise hit the felt. Reilly called and showed the nut flush draw with 
to Kessler's flopped set with 
. The turn was the 
to add a straight draw to Reilly's outs. The river fell 
and Reilly completed the straight to win the pot, eliminating Kessler from the tournament.
, Boeree tabled 
and the other player in the hand mucked. Boeree was sent to the rail and a large pot was pushed towards Tsodikov.
. The flop came 