James Obst completed with a and Frank Kassela called with his . Obst then check-called a bet on fourth before both players checked fifth. On sixth, Obst bet, Kassela called, and the both players checked seventh.
Obst: / /
Kassela: /
Kassela ended with a 7-6-5-4-2 low, and it was good as Obst mucked.
Scott Seiver completed with a and then called when Todd Brunson raised with a of his own. Seiver proceeded to call bets from Brunson on every street until the later was all in for his last 50,000 on seventh street.
Seiver: /
Brunson: /
Brunson ended up with a J-7-3-2-A low, but it was no good as Seiver had made an 8-6-5-4-3 low. Brunson took home $115,447 for his 11th-place finish.
James Obst raised in the hijack, Allen Kessler and Jesse Martin called out of the blinds, and the flop fell . Kessler led out, Martin folded, and Obst raised. Kessler reraised, Obst called, and the turn was the .
Obst called a bet from Kessler, then another on the river (), and Kessler showed for the nut low and a full house.
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Jesse Martin raised from under the gun, Chun Lei Zhou called out of the small blind, and Allen Kessler defended his big blind. The flop fell , Zhou led out, and only Martin called.
The turn was the , Zhou fired out another bet, and Martin called. Martin called one last bet on the river (), then mucked when Zhou showed for kings full of nines.
John Hennigan completed with the and Brandon Shack-Harris called with an eight of his own. Both players proceeded to check fourth and then Shack-Harris called a bet on fifth. That action repeated itself on sixth, and then Hennigan tossed out a bet on seventh. Shack-Harris raised it, and Hennigan tanked for a bit before making the call.
Hennigan: /
Shack-Harris: /
Shack-Harris had essentially bluffed with his eights, and Hennigan sniffed it out as his eights and fives proved best.
Chun Lei "samrostan" Zhou opened for 35,000 under the gun and Matt Glantz three-bet all in for 100,000 or so from the small blind. The big folded and Zhou wasted little time in making the call.
Zhou:
Glantz:
Glantz was in trouble, and his best bet to survive was to catch an ace. That didn't happen on the flop, nor did it come on the turn. An ace and an ace only would save Glantz on the river, but it was not meant to be as the blanked.
Glantz, who had made the final table of this event two times in the past, was denied his record third appearance and had to settle for 12th place and a $99,388 consolation prize.
Matt Glantz was the first player to act, and he put in a raise. Allen Kessler called on the button, James Obst defended his big blind, and the trio was of to the first draw.
Player
Draw One
Draw Two
Draw Three
Obst
2
Folded
Glantz
1
1
1
Kessler
1
Pat
Pat
The action checked to Kessler after the first draw, and he bet. Only Glantz called, and the three-time $50,000 Poker Players' Championship finalist check-called another bet after the second draw.