It was a short and not-so-sweet stay for Andy Frankenberger in Event #4: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, which was his first tournament of the summer. Find out what happened and what his next event will be.
WSOP Circuit regular Arkadiy Tsinis limped under the gun and action folded all the way to Joe Serock, who limped from the small blind. The big blind checked his option and the three players saw a flop of .
Serock was first to act and led out for 150, which inspired the big blind to fold. Tsinis made the call and then the dealer burned and turned the . Serock slowed down with a check and then folded when Tsinis shoved all in for 875.
It was a good thing he did, too, as Tsinis showed the for a set.
We saw Joseph Cheong sitting with a decent stack, and as we were counting it he got involved in a preflop raising war with an unknown player. Eventually the chips got in the middle and Cheong, who had the bigger stack, tabled the . His opponent held , and the board ran out a clean to give Cheong the knock out.
2014 SCOOP Player of the Series Calvin Anderson joins the PokerNews Podcast to talk about going deep in the $25,000 buy-in Mixed-Max event, playing non-hold'em games, and more. Rich and Donnie then discuss some of the robberies taking place at the Rio, and a feature on Mike "The Mouth" Matusow.
WSOP bracelet winner and former Octo-Niner Jeremy Ausmus was seat at Table 7, which also played host to the slim and trim Greg "FBT" Mueller. For those who may not know, the "FBT" stands for "Full Blown Tilt."
Anyway, the two tangled and only one survived. We missed the hand, but the winner of it was kind enough to fill us in.
According to him, a short-stacked Ausmus opened for 200 and Mueller defended from the big blind with . After the flop fell , Mueller checked and Ausmus bet 300. Mueller proceeded to check-raise all in and Ausmus, who had less than 1,000, called off with .
Ausmus was in a great spot to double, and stayed in the lead on the turn. Unfortunately for him, the river was a and Mueller took it down with a full house.