A player in middle position limped and the player sitting to his left raised to 1,350. It folded back to David Benyamine in the small blind who called the raise, and a short-stacked player in the BB called as well. The original limper stepped aside.
The flop came . Benyamine bet the pot, and his neighbor committed his final 1,150 to the pot. The dealer was clarifying the action, saying "pot bet, call," which Benyamine thought might have been the preflop raiser saying "pot" (as in he was reraising). "He bets pot?!" said Benyamine, and the situation was quickly explained to him. "He's excited!" said the all-in player, perhaps suggesting Benyamine was happy to take this hand as far as his opponent wanted.
Whatever the case, the original raiser folded, and the remaining two tabled their cards. Benyamine had while the all-in player had . "Nut-nut," said Benyamine, referring to his strong draws in both directions. But the turn was the and river the , and the pair chopped the pot with Benyamine taking the high with his straight and his opponent the low.
"I'm gonna send out some tweets about the atrocities I've seen."
So said Phil Hellmuth (a.k.a. "@Phil_Hellmuth") to his table just now. Subsequent conversation revealed the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner was a recent victim of a rivered three-outer.
"My tweet is going to be 'I've never seen such bad poker,'" the Poker Brat clarified.
"Will you tweet that with my picture?" said the one who'd victimized Hellmuth before. Eagerly.
Hellmuth sits with about 3,900 at present. Meanwhile, 81,162 followers await further news.
The numbers are in. A total of 946 runners came out to test their mettle in today's $1,500 PLO/8 event, with about a third of those having already lost their chips and seats by the middle of Level 6. Meanwhile, those remaining are still battling for a prize pool totaling $1,277,100, with a nice score of $268,235 awaiting the winner.
The top 90 finishers get paid; click the "Payouts" tab for complete details. Meanwhile, here are the prizes awaiting those making the final table:
A player in middle position raised to 600 from middle position only to have Alexander Kostritsyn three-bet to 2,100 from the small blind. Action folded back to the middle-position player and he moved all in for around 3,500, which Kostritsyn called.
Kostritsyn:
Opponent:
"Oh, oh," Kostritsyn said after seeing he was far behind. "Emergency low," he uttered as he pointed to his ace-eight. Sure enough, the board ran out and Kostritsyn's emergency low got him his money back. He is sitting with 7,500.
We came on this one after the river had been dealt, with the board showing , Dario Alioto tabling , and his opponent . Alioto was claiming the low half with his ace-deuce, and his opponent the high with the jack-high straight.
The real news here is not the chopped pot, though, but that Alioto is sitting with about 20,000 at present, off to one of the better starts in the room this afternoon.
Frank Kassela sat down at a new table with about 6,000 and one hand later, he had none.
We came in when he just threw his hand up in the air and was very frustrated as his opponent showed on a board of for the rivered straight. Kassela hit the rail quickly and angrily and is likely off to register for the 5 PM $2,500 Mixed Hold'em
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. Benyamine bet the pot, and his neighbor committed his final 1,150 to the pot. The dealer was clarifying the action, saying "pot bet, call," which Benyamine thought might have been the preflop raiser saying "pot" (as in he was reraising). "He bets pot?!" said Benyamine, and the situation was quickly explained to him. "He's excited!" said the all-in player, perhaps suggesting Benyamine was happy to take this hand as far as his opponent wanted.
while the all-in player had 
. "Nut-nut," said Benyamine, referring to his strong draws in both directions. But the turn was the 
and river the 
, and the pair chopped the pot with Benyamine taking the high with his straight and his opponent the low.
and Kostritsyn's emergency low got him his money back. He is sitting with 7,500.
and Baldwin hit the rail. He may be out, but #sportspokernames and #rapperpokernames live on.
, and his opponent 
. Alioto was claiming the low half with his ace-deuce, and his opponent the high with the jack-high straight.
