The action folded around to a player in middle position who raised to 125 preflop; his neighbor re-raised to 275, but Tom Dwan four-bet it to 650. The action then folded around to the player in the big blind, who called, but the first middle position player got out of the way, making it three-handed to the flop of .
The big blind checked to the second middle position player who bet 375 and Dwan called before the big blind folded, making it heads-up to the turn of the , where the player led out for 725. Dwan called, then both players checked down the river before the player showed .
Dwan also tabled and that resulted in an equal dividend of gaming tokens for both competitors.
Action began preflop when Sergey Rybachenko raised from the hijack and was three-bet by Shannon Shorr from the cutoff. Action folded back around Rybanchenko who made the call.
The flop fell . Rybachenko checked to Shorr who continued out with a bet. Rybachenko made the call and the two saw a turn of . Rybachenko check-called a bet once again and the river came . Shorr tossed another bet out after Rybachenko checked and it was called.
Shorr tabled and Rybachenko sent his hand to muck.
An opponent under the gun raised and the action folded around to the player in the small blind, who re-raised before the happy-go-lucky Chris Tryba slammed his stack in. "Two million!" he cried.
Of course, given that it's Limit Hold'em, he could only go to 300. The UTG player called, but the small blind four-bet it. "FIVE million!" barked Tryba as he capped the betting. The UTG player folded and the small blind called, then checked on the flop of .
"17 million!" Tryba said. The small blind called 200.
Turn: . Check. "14,000!". Call 400.
River: . Check. "I'm all in!" Call 400.
"I got aces," Tryba said, tabling . The small blind looked over at Tryba with a grimace, flashing him his cards.
"Ooh, that's a cooler, huh?" Tryba exclaimed. "Did you see? Kings! He had kings!"
We caught up to Table 109 to find Ronnie Bardah bet from early position, Hoyt Corkins raise, and Phil Laak four-bet from the big blind. Action was then back to Bardah who called, then to Corkins who also made the call.
On a flop Laak bet, Bardah called, Corkins raised, Laak called, and Bardah called. With a on the turn Laak and Bardah both agreed to check and get out of the way from a charging Corkins. Corkins then two-bet, Laak opted to call while Bardah got out of the way.
The on the river brought another check from Laak and a two-bet from Corkins. Laak then surrendered the pot to Corkins.
On a flop of , Noah Boeken's opponent checked to Boeken who fired out a bet. His opponent raised and Boeken made the call.
The turned and his opponent checked, leaving Boeken to fire out a bet. His opponent raised and Boeken three-bet the action. His opponent responded by four-betting only to find Boeken cap it. His opponent made the call and the fell on the river. Boeken's opponent check-called once last bet on the river only to muck his cards after Boeken tabled for a set of kings.
"In no-limit you would have had all of my chips," Boeken's opponent said.
"That's the good thing about limit", Boeken replied with a smile.
On a flop of , Bruno Portaro bet out from the small blind and the big blind player raised it up before another player in middle position re-raised. Portaro four-bet it and both the big blind and the middle position players called before Portaro opened again on the turn of the .
The big blind raised and both the middle position player and Portaro called before he and the big blind checked to the middle position player on the river . The opponent bet and both Portaro and the big blind called, but were no good against the middle position player's , despite Portaro having flopped the straight with !
On a flop that read , the small and big blinds checked to Shannon Shorr who opened for 400, but the small blind then check-raised to 1,075. The big blind folded, Shorr four-bet it to 6,000 straight and the small blind called all-in.
Small blind:
Shorr:
Shorr paired up on the turn of the , but the small blind kept the lead with his pair of queens. However, Shorr still had plenty of outs with that gut-shot straight flush draw of his, and he managed to bink one with the river .