Action folded to Mitch Schock in the small blind and he raised it up to 30,000. Carter Gill made the call from the big blind and the duo watched the flop come down . Schock was first to act and checked, opening the door for Gill to bet 55,000.
"Really?" Schock asked as he looked at Gill.
"I'll show you," responded Gill. Schock took the deal, folded his hand, and watched as Gill flashed the .
David Lestock raised to 20,000 under the gun and was met with a three-bet to 75,000 from [Removed:326] on the button. Both blinds got out of the way and Lestock made the call. "Pot," Lestock announced after watching the flop fall . [Removed:327] beat him into the pot with his entire stack, just 17,000 more, and Lestock made the call.
[Removed:327]:
Lestock:
[Removed:327] held aces, which would have been good had the hand ended right there, but Lestock had numerous outs including straight and flush draws. [Removed:327] seemed to know dodging so many outs was unlikely, but that is what he did as the hit the turn, followed by the river.
"Wow, how do you dodge all that?" Joe Hachem asked after the hand.
It's all got very cagey on the remaining two tables with few flops. The highlight of the last few minutes was Carter Gill getting out his iPad and playing "Hotel California" by the Eagles.
You can refer to "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski for this reporter's opinions on the Eagles.
On a flop of , Joe Hachem checked from the big blind and [Removed:326] bet 50,000. Tyler Patterson made the call, Hachem folded, and it was heads up to the turn. [Removed:327] continued to bet, this time 150,000, and again Patterson just called.
[Removed:327] must not have liked the river as he checked to Patterson, who moved all in. [Removed:327] just shook his head as he flung his cards to the muck. [Removed:327] dropped to under 300K while Patterson is up to 970,000.
A massive pot just developed that saw Joe Hachem raise to 35,000 under the gun, [Removed:326] reraise pot, and Jan Collado four-bet pot from the small blind. Both Hachem and [Removed:327] called off their stacks and it was what one might expect:
Hachem:
[Removed:327]:
Collado:
With the aces and kings taken, this seemed to be one of those hands that'd be determined by the other cards in their respective hands. Sure enough, the flop fell , giving Collado trips and the nut flush draw, putting Hachem and [Removed:327] in a bad spot.
The turn didn't change a thing. The rail leaned in close as Hachem and [Removed:327] both awaited their fate on the river. Burn . . . .
The river improved Collado to a flush, which was good enough to take down the pot and send his two opponents to the rail. Hachem began the hand with the short stack, so he'll be awarded 12th place; consequently, [Removed:327] finished in 11th place.
Jonas Mackoff is back up to 450,000 after he was all in for 220,000 preflop with against Jan Collado's , the board came to put our short stack back into the game.