On a flop of , we found Andrew Cohen firing out a continuation-bet of 850 into a pot of roughly a little over 1,000.
His lone opponent in the hand - Jarred Solomon - slid out a check-raise from the big blind amounting to 1,775, but when the action returned to Cohen in the cutoff, he made it 3,875.
The South African Solomon instantly moved all in for 10,475, and after two minutes in the tank, Cohen angled his cards to the muck.
Both players have made deep runs already this series with Solomon finishing in second place in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship, while Cohen finished in tenth place in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event.
Jonathan Aguiar raised preflop in middle position to 525, and an opponent on the button called. The players went heads up to a flop of . Aguiar bet out 600, and his opponent called again. On the turn, the , both players checked, and the river came the . Aguiar bet out 1,600, and his opponent gave his hand up. Aguiar has built up quite the stack, and is amongst our chip leaders as we approach the dinner break.
Over at Chris Tryba's table, he has just doubled up after getting his money in in a dominating position preflop. A middle position player made it 400, and the player in the hijack called. Tryba squeezed by going all in from the cutoff for 3,250, and the button went all in from the button for 4,450. The other two players folded, and the players tabled their cards.
Tryba:
Button:
The board ran out , and Tryba scored the double up.
We didn't catch the hand, but we heard a brief recap of what happened after. Ali Eslami and Fatima Moreira De Melo both were all in preflop, as well as another player, who's stack was between Eslami's and De Melo's.
De Melo:
Eslami:
Opponent:
The flop came ace high, and Eslami took the main pot to triple up. The other player's kings held up, and De Melo lost out on everything, dropping her down to 3,125.