Five players saw a flop of and Gabriel Ramos bet the pot for 1,000 from the small blind. Action folded around to the button and he raised to put Ramos to a decision for the remainder of his stack. He called to put himself at risk and the two players tabled their hands.
Gabriel Ramos:
Button:
Ramos was ahead with aces and the nut-low draw and his opponent needed to improve in order to stack him. The on the turn gave Ramos the nut low but made his opponent's flush. After the fell on the river, they split the pot.
Five players saw a flop of and both blinds checked before the player under the gun bet 800. Allyn Shulman, who was on the button, was the only caller.
The turn brought the and the under-the-gun player checked. Shulman bet 2,500 and her opponent called.
The hit the river and the under-the-gun player bet enough to put Shulman to a decision for the remainder of her stack, which was just over 6,000. She called and her opponent tabled for the nut flush and second-nut low. The dealer quickly swept away her and Shulman made her exit after the stacks had been verified.
Shulman exercised her option to re-enter and was just spotted sitting with a fresh stack.
Brian Hastings raised to 450 and two players joined him to the flop. Hastings continued for 1,000 and a player on the button pumped the price to 2,200. Barry Werthman folded in the big blind and Hastings pushed all in for 2,975, earning a call.
Hastings:
Opponent:
The turn gave Hastings' rival a huge draw but the river was a blank and Hastings doubled his short stack.
Courtesy of Allen Kessler who came to our table to let us know about some crazy action happening on his table, we were able to see a four-way all-in situation develop following a flop of .
Eric Rodawig had bet 1,200, Brian Hastings made it 5,450 to go, then Barry Werthman moved all in. On top of that, Joseph Ebanks also put all his chips in and Rodawig was baffled by the situation in which he found himself. Eventually, he said, "Okay, I'm all in," and Hastings placed in his remaining hundreds in the middle as well. No less than 16 hole cards were turned up.
"I flopped the nuts," Werthman said while the other players all had an ace-deuce plus a spade draw in their respective hands:
Werthman:
Ebanks:
Rodawig:
Hastings:
The turn filled the low draw, then the river sealed the massive high-half of the pot for Werthman.
It took about five minutes to figure out all the logistics of side pots and chops, but the players helped the dealer to make everything right. Werthman walked away from the crazy all-in confrontation as the biggest beneficiary.