With , Allan Le busted two more players on a board of . Le had rivered a deuce-six straight for the high and it was also good for the low, scooping the pot.
We got to the table with a mountain of chips sitting in the middle, a board of and three hands face up while the dealer worked on figuring out who won what and splitting the pot appropriately:
Seat 7:
Michel Abecassis:
Tim Burt:
Burt and Seat 7 both had aces and queens to split the high. Abecassis and Burt had a 6-5 low with their ace-deuce's to split the low, meaning Burt would take half the pot with the other two splitting the remainder. That pot pushed Burt back above the 100,000 chip mark. He now sits with 125,000 while Abecassis takes a hit, but still sits with a top stack of 200,000.
Team PokerStars Pro and Team BlueShark Optics member Humberto Brenes joins the podcast to talk about his eight cashes thus far in the 2014 WSOP, chasing records, and Costa Rica's success at the FIFA World Cup. Rich, Donnie, and Jason then break down all of the latest news at the Rio, including the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship, and play an impromptu game that Jason and Rich fail miserably at.
Phil Ivey is up to 200,000 in chips after - in his own words - "winning a lot of pots", while Tyler Patterson is distancing himself from the field with more than double what his closest competitor has:
With a pot of 73,500 and a board reading , Jeff Madsen check-called a bet of 33,000 from an opponent in the cutoff seat. The was dealt on the river and both players checked. Madsen tabled for a rivered set of kings and after about ten seconds, his opponent mucked. Madsen now sits among the leaders.
A short-stacked Miami John Cernuto got the last of his chips in preflop and was facing Allan Le.
Cernuto:
Le:
The flop came , giving Cernuto a low draw. The turn was the and Cernuto was ahead with his ace with queen kicker. The river was the , giving Cernuto a pair of queens, but it was a club to give Le the ace-high flush and the pot.