Andrew Brown, Shawn Buchanan, Jason Lester and a fourth opponent saw a flop of . Brown lead out, the fourth opponent called, Buchanan made it two bets, and Lester made it three bets. The action folded back to Buchanan who called, and the turn was the . Both players checked.
The river was the , and both players checked again. Buchanan tabled , Lester mucked, and Buchanan was shipped the pot.
In a three-bet pot preflop, PokerStars Team Pro's Daniel Negreanu and Anton Allemann saw a flop of against a third opponent. Allemann led out, the player in the middle called, Negreanu made it two bets and Allemann made it three. The player in the middle folded, and Negreanu made the call.
The turn was the , and Negreanu slowed down, opting to just call Allemann's bet. The river was the , and it was Allemann's turn to pump the breaks. He check-called a bet from Negreanu, who opened for the nuts.
Alex Kostritsyn raised in early position, and Dario Alioto three-bet a couple seats over. Kostritsyn called, and off they went to the flop heads-up.
It came , and Kostritsyn led right back out with a bet. Alioto called there, and he called again after the turn brought the . Kostritsyn bet one more time after the river, and it was there that Alioto finally raised to two bets. Kostritsyn probably knew what was what, but he splashed the last 3,000 into the pot to see for sure.
Alioto turned over , and his queens full of aces gets him the full pot. After that exchange, Alioto is up to 40,000, and Kostritsyn is back down to 69,000 -- about where he started the day.
Just before break, David "ODB" Baker raised from early position, Jerry Buss three-bet on the button, and Jean-Robert Bellande cold-called from the blinds. Baker called too, and the flop came down . Bellande checked, Baker bet, and Buss raised, putting himself all in. Both Bellande and Baker called.
The turn was the , and Bellande bet out. Baker mucked.
Bellande:
Buss:
Buss could chop the pot with any low card, or scoop with any jack, but the river bricked and Buss was eliminated.