The action folded around to a player in middle position who raised before Daniel Negreanu shipped his last 3,100 into the middle. The middle position called, showing down but was smashed by Negreanu's after he improved to trips on the board of .
Negreanu is now back up to 7,000 and has some work to do.
Tom Dwan raised to 800 preflop and was called by Martin Kabrhel in position. The flop came and both players checked. The turned and Dwan checked once again. Kabrhel bet out 1,475 and Dwan made the call.
The hit the river and Dwan checked once more. This time Kabrhel fired out 3,675 and after some pondering, Dwan pushed out a call. Kabrhel tabled for a rivered pair of jacks. It was good, as Dwan sent his cards sailing into the muck.
On a board that read , Al "Sugarbear" Barbieri moved his last 4,000 in after the tun with for a pair, but was called off by Scott Montgomery who had him outkicked with his . Even though he still had a glimmer of hope with a nine to the straight or another queen to improve to two pair, the river was a blank and Barbieri is no more.
Erica Schoenberg made it 700 preflop from under the gun and was called by the player in the cutoff. The flop came and Schoenberg bet out 1,000. Her opponent raised the action to 2,600. Schoenberg wouldn't be that easily swayed, however, choosing to three-bet to 6,000. Her opponent four-bet shoved all in and Schoenberg quickly called.
Schoenberg:
Opponent:
Schoenberg was ahead with her aces and stayed that way when the turn came and the river the . Schoenberg was able to send one to the rail and scoop a massive pot.
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The action folded to Matt Woodward who raised to 650 before the flop; Nick Binger re-raised all-in 4,450 from the hijack but both were then faced with a four-bet from the button. Woodward got out of the way and the cards were tabled:
Binger:
Button:
Neither hand improved on the board of and Binger doubled up to more than 10,000 in chips.
Our field reporter picked up the action on a flop that read from the moment the player in the small blind opened the betting; Randy Lew raised and the player on the button called before the small blind re-raised.
Lew called all-in for 1,700 and the button also called, then the small blind led out on both the turn of the and the river . The button called each time, but mucked after the small blind player showed . Lew flipped up his and walked away.
We swung by Jeff Lisandro's table, where our field reporter caught the tail-end of a board that read . A player had tabled , but discovered that Jeff Lisandro had snatched the pot away from him on the river with to double up to more than 14,000.
"I dug myself a hole and now I've got myself out," Lisandro said with a sigh of relief.