One of the more amusing aspects of the featured table in this event comes in the form of Joseph Zeman's "Easy Button." The iconic red button made popular by a office supply company is sitting right behind Zeman's stack of chips. He recently won a three handed pot after the other players folded on the flop. As he raked in the chips he hit the button which proclaimed, "That was easy!"
Christopher EIlis shoved in his remaining 14,000 preflop only to be called by both Daniel Quach and Stefan Martin from the small and big blind respectively. The blinds checked down a board of . Ilis turned up and the two blinds mucked their cards. Ilis is now over 40,000
We arrived at the table to catch Alashkar calling the call in of Quach.
Alashkar:
Quach:
The board fell and Quach's pair of threes was enough to scoop the pot. This pot put Quach around 70,000.
Not more than 5 minutes later on a board of Alashkar announced he was all in while heads up against Quach. Quach instantly called and turned up . "Good hand" remarked Alashkar, who turned up . The turned, giving Quach a set who fist pumped as the irrelevant fell on the river. Quach is now sitting with 142,000.
In a blind vs. blind situation, Edward Marcus raised to 15,000 and John Podobnik answered by re-raising all in for his last 42,000. Marcus made the call and saw that his was dominated heading into the flop against Podobnik's
The board ran out , giving Podobnik two pair and the pot worth about 90,000.
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The action folded around to Joshua McBroom in the small blind who pushed his entire stack of 33,000 into the middle. In the big blind, Michael Barela deliberated.
"Why do I think you're trying to make a move on me?" asked Barela. Barela then went with his read and made the call, tabling . McBroom meekly turned over . The flop came down . When the came on the turn, the river was rendered irrelevant and McBroom hit the rail.
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