Thanks to a little PokerNews Podcast run good, Jason Somerville shipped a million dollars on Friday, chopping the Bellagio $100K event with Jason Mercier, Dan Smith and Tom Marchese. The crew discusses that score, then looks at the $1 Million BIG ONE for ONE DROP with the Day 1 chip leader; Sam Trickett.
Brian Altman opened the action with a raise to 22,000 and then four-bet all in when Robert Merulla from one seat over three-net him. Merulla snap-called with the and Altman was in bad shape with the . The board failed to improve his hand and Altman is now down to five big blinds.
After the previous huge pot, Rafael Pondolfo was left very short. Neo Hoang raised to 20,000 from the cutoff and Daniel Riley called on the button, Pondolfo called all in for slightly less than that out of the big blind. On the flop, Hoang checked and folded after Riley bet 35,000.
Pondolfo:
Riley:
The board completed with the turn and the river to give Riley the nut flush and Pondolfo headed to the payout desk in the very last hand of the level.
Neo Hoang and Rafael Pondolfo just had a huge preflop confrontation. There may have been a slight language barrier as at the end of the hand several players including Pondolfo accused Hoang of a slow roll, but Hoang quietly stated that he was merely making sure that Pondolfo was indeed all in before making the call and turning over his cards.
Whatever the truth of it Hoang made the call with . Pondolfo had .
The cards ran out and Hoang won a huge pot the left Pondolfo super short.
Rafael Pondolfo has knocked out fellow Brazilian Ruly Vieira after winning a coin flip with against the pair of sixes of Vieira.
Shortly after, David Riley min-raised to 16,000 and Carlos Hey defended his big blind to see the flop. Riley got his last 97,000 chips in with and Hey called with the .
The turn was not enough yet for Riley in order to scoop the pot but the river saw him double up.
Thomas Muehloecker opened for 16,000 and folded to a raise to 40,000 from Justin Schwartz.
In the next hand Muehloecker opened again for 16,000 and got just a call from Robert Merulla in the big blind. They saw a flop of . Muehloecker bet 18,500, but folded when Merulla check-raised him to 53,500.
Merulla was involved again in the next hand tangling this time with Schwartz. Schwartz raised to 16,000 and Merulla made it 40,500. Schwartz made the call and they went to a flop of .
Merulla checked how much Schwartz had behind, a little over 200,000, and bet 80,000. Schwartz slid out the call.
The turn was the and a check from Merulla prompted Schwartz to bet 80,000. It didn’t take long for Merula to fold his face up.
“Aces are bottom of your range.” Merulla told him.
“You had no outs. It’s a good fold.” Schwartz told him
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and Robert Merulla on the button looked him up with 
.
and suddenly things didn’t look so gloomy.
. The 
board failed to improve his hand and Altman is now down to five big blinds.
.
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flop, Hoang checked and folded after Riley bet 35,000.
turn and the 
river to give Riley the nut flush and Pondolfo headed to the payout desk in the very last hand of the level.
against the pair of sixes of Vieira.
flop. Riley got his last 97,000 chips in with 
and Hey called with the 
.
face up.