We saw Garry Gates get all in preflop with one of the large stacks in the room Bret Hruby. Gates held and Hruby had . A board of came out and things were looking good for Gates, but a river sent Gates to the rail.
Michael Wojcieszek raised from early position to 2,600 and was called by Andy Frankenberger from the button. The two players saw a flop of . Wojcieszek checked to Frankenberger, who led out for 3,300. Wojcieszek made the call and the turn came . The action checked around to see a river of . It went check-check once again.
"Pair. Four." said Wojcieszek, tabling .
Frankenberger flipped up for a pair of kings, and was able to scoop the pot.
"You bet on the turn and I was going to check raise you", Wojcieszek said.
"Guess it was a bad check, then." replied Frankenberger as he stacked his chips.
Action started on the button as no one else seemed to want to play, and he raised it to 2,700. Benjamin Vinson in the small blind reraised and made it 5,600. After the big blind folded it was back on the button who moved all in for around 37,000. Vinson made the call and the table got to see the cards.
Vinson:
Button:
all made an appearance on the flop and it was Vinson's pair of nines that were ahead against his opponent's pair of fives. A put out any hopes of a run run flush draw for Vinson's opponent, and a river sealed the deal as Vinson knocked out a player.
When we got to Table 366 we found Ralph Robinson putting out a bet of 3,500 preflop. Brent Hanks was wiling to cough up the dough and both of them got to see a flop.
On a board Robinson again bet out this time making it 7,400, and Hanks smooth called. On a turn Robinson checked and let Hanks take control of the hand, or so he thought. After Hanks put out a 8,000 chip bet, Robinson immediately went all in.
Hanks was in a pickle and clearly wanted to make the call. Hanks started asking questions to Robinson about what he should do. They continued to off handily chat while the hand went on and eventually Hanks asked if he could see Robinson's cards if he folded. Robinson said yes and Hanks folded.
True to his word Robinson showed , Hanks thanked him and claimed he had an .
Hanks was left with around 20,000 in chips after the hand, but as we were writing this post we noticed he busted from the tournament.
David "The Dragon" Pham was all in on the turn with the board reading for his last 17,400 with the . His opponent called with the . The river completed the board with the and that was the end of the line for Pham.
Two players were eliminated during hand-for-hand play, causing the bubble to burst and cries of joy and applause to erupt from all around the purple section of the Amazon Room.
One of the men to be eliminated on the bubble was Joe Gualtieri, who managed to get it all in with against his opponent's . The board fell and Gualtieri's pocket kings were cracked by a set of jacks on the turn.
On another table, William Vincent got his entire stack in on a board of , holding for bottom set. Sadly he was up against his opponent's for middle set. The turn and river came and and Vincent was tragically sent to the rail.
Every player remaining in the field will be guaranteed $2,733 for their efforts.
On the flop, Martin Kabrhel fired a bet of 3,600. His opponent, Raymond Spencer, made the call to see the fall on the turn. Kabrhel fired 12,000 and Spencer tanked for a minute before folding his hand.