Cliffs, via Bryan Devonshire's twitter: "Just busted my buddy Blake Bohn KK>JJ for about 700k. ~4.1m."
The slightly-longer version: All in before the flop with , Bohn had run into Devonshire's . The flop came , giving Devonshire a boat. The turn was the , making inconsequential the river.
Daryl Jace opened for 52,000 from UTG and it folded around to Aaron "aejones" Jones who shoved all in from the button for 436,000. The blinds got out, and Jace called.
Jace:
Jones:
A good spot for Jones, and after the board came he'd doubled to 935,000. Jace, meanwhile, slips to 720,000.
Ben Mintz opened the pot to 60,000 from middle position, and Zo Karim flatted a couple seats over. On the button, Peter Feldman squeezed all in for 703,000, and Mintz ducked out of the way. Karim made the call, though, having worked his short stack up to an amount that covered his opponent. Feldman was at risk, and the cards were on their backs.
Showdown
Karim:
Feldman:
The board gave nothing to "Nordberg" as it came to send him on his way. For Karim, these chips have been a long time coming. He's been short-stacked the whole way, and this knockout pot finally puts him just a few thousands chips short of the average.
We not sure on the preflop action, but we do know that Fabio Sousa was all in for his last 551,000 and up against Jamie Shaevel.
Showdown
Shaevel:
Sousa:
It was the classic cooler, but fortunately for the at-risk player, he had the better hand. The board ran out an unexciting and Sousa survived to double to 1.19 million; meanwhile, Shaevel was reduced to 245,000.
It folded around to Jerry Van Strydonck in the small blind who raised to 65,000, then Ryan Jaconetti reraised all in for 876,000 from one seat over. Van Strydonck snap-called, tabling , which left Jaconetti in tough shape with his .
The flop brought the case ace, coming and making the turn and river a couple of formalities.
Jaconetti is out, while Van Strydonck now has 2.48 million.
Action folded around to Philipp Gruissem in middle position and he put in an opening raise to 50,000. In the cutoff seat was Stuart Tuvey and he made the call. From the small blind, Magnus Persson studied the situation. He then three-bet to 162,000. Action went back to Gruissem and he studied himself for about two minutes. Gruissem then folded. Tuvey made the call.
The flop came down and Persson was up first. He had about 1.4 million in chips and Tuvey had about 1.3 million when action went to the flop. Persson led with a bet of 138,000. Tuvey asked how much the bet was for and then called.
Fourth street brought the to the board and Persson didn't let up. He fired 298,000. Tuvey called again, not about to back down.
The river was the . With the board complete, Persson fired 493,000 -- a very hefty bet. Tuvey didn't take too long before making the call.
Persson tapped the table and then turned over the for nothing but jack high. Tuvey showed the for top pair with a jack kicker and won the hand.
Konstantinos Mamaliadis fired 130,000, and was called by both Fred Berger and Mars Callahan. The river was the , Mamaliadis led for 280,000, Berger mucked, and Callahan went into the tank. He eventually called, and Mamaliadis rolled over for a club flush.
Callahan showed before mucking, and Mamaliadis raked in the pot.
Daryl Jace made it 52,000 from the cutoff and was three-bet by John Hewitt from the button to 125,000. Mathew Frankland four-bet all in for 320,000 from the small blind and it folded back around to Hewitt.
"I almost have to call," said Hewitt as he slid his chips to the middle, tabling
Hewitt had a feeling he was behind, and was correct, as Frankland taled . The flop brought good fortune for Hewitt, however, as it came , pairing his ten and shooting him into the lead.
"I'll see if putting my jacket on works," said Frankland as he stood up from the table and gathered his things.
The turn brought the and the river the , sending Frankland to the rail and boosting Hewitt up to 3,400,000.
We stumbled upon a considerable pot with a board reading . Andrey Pateychuk was in the big blind and moved all in for 937,000, which Vladimir Geshkenbein called from middle position, creating a pot of around 3.4 million.
Showdown
Geshkenbein:
Pateychuk:
Geshkenbein had flopped middle set, but Pateychuk turned the nut straight. The latter managed to double to 3.4 million while the former was reduced to 610,000.
Due to the configuration of the ESPN camera set-up around the secondary feature table, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team have been extremely hard-pressed to report on the action. However, we have just managed to pick up one hand for you.
From the UTG +1 position, Hilton Laborda raised to 56,000 before the flop and the action folded around to Evan McNiff who called from the hijack position, making it heads-up to the flop of , which both players checked before Laborda led out for 142,000 on the turn of the .
McNiff called, then after about three minutes of deliberation, Laborda finally decded to check the river . McNiff fired out 200,000 and again, Laborda tanked for almost another two-and-a-half minutes before laying his hand down.
As McNiff raked in the chips, the rest of the table started berating Laborda. "What are you doing there?" Jean-Robert Bellande exclaimed. "That hand was over six minutes long - I can't believe you took so long to make a decision on a 200,000 bet into a 900K pot!"
A very nervous-looking Laborda said nothing, but draped his Brazilian flag around his shoulders even tighter. Still, he's worked hard to bring his stack up to 3.1 million and we're almost certain that as well as his flag, the weight of his home country is well and truly on his shoulders.