Ryan Laplante was seen walking away from the table as his flush draw did not get there against the top pair of his opponent, David O'Neill. Laplante's fell to the on a board that ran out .
Brandon Caldwell shoved all in from early position. A player in middle position asked for a count, and when the dealer confirmed 67,500 he then shoved all in behind. Action then folded around to the player in the small blind who also shoved, but was the shortest stack of the three.
Brandon Caldwell:
Middle Position Player:
Small Blind Player:
The board ran out , which kept Caldwell's overpair in the lead and eliminated both players since he had them covered.
Quoc Le was seen pulling in a large pot. Table-mate Kenny Nguyen was commenting how Le was down to 15,000 in chips not much longer than an hour ago and has now risen to one of the larger stacks in the whole room.
Phil Hellmuth raised to 6,000 from the small blind and he was promptly three-bet by Paul Lee in the big blind to 30,000. Georgios Kitsios moved all in from middle position for his remaining amount of about 70,000.
It folded back around to Hellmuth who went on a mini-rant about what he was about to fold before laying it down. Lee immediately called the all in and turned over which was dominating the of Kitsios.
The run out brought a little sweat as three hearts appeared on a run out before a blank secured the Greek's elimination and Lee pulled in new chips as Hellmuth looked on glad that he did indeed fold.
On a board that read , Kelly Minkin called a bet of 17,000 from her opponent. The river was the . This time her opponent checked as Minkin stared him down. She then surveyed the board and thought for a few moments before betting 30,000 which got a call.
Minkin turned over the for top two pair which was good enough for the pot as her opponent mucked his hand.
A story of an odd hand was retold by Jarod Einsohn. According to him the player in seat 1 under the gun bet 80,000 of his stack of 85,000, leaving just 5,000 behind. Einsohn made the call from under the gun plus 2.
However Einsohn believed that the player had moved all in so he exposed his hand after making the call when everyone else had folded. He exposed . The flop came . The player in seat 1 checked and Einsohn bet all in to force the player to put in his last 5,000. But instead the player folded his hand. Effectively handing Einsohn 80,000 free chips.
The player was already gone from his chair when the story was relayed, clearly having busted in subsequent hands.