Livello 5
: 150/300, 0 ante
We picked up the action on the turn, heads up between Ali Eslami and Mikhail Tulchinskiy. The board showed 
, and Eslami checked from the blinds. Tulchinskiy bet 3,000, Eslami check-raised to 8,500, and Tulchinskiy reraised all in for about 12,000 or so. Eslami called with 
for the nuts, and we never got to see Tulchinskiy's hand. He mucked with some frustration as the 
filled out the board, though someone at the table said they saw 
in his hand, too. Whatever it was, it wasn't good, and we're minus on Russian here on Day 1.
Eslami is on the rise, bolstering his stack up to about 47,000 with that knockout pot.
on a 
board. Tehan is now sitting on a mighty stack of 54,000.
, Tim West checked and Tom "durrrr" Dwan bet 2,300. West tanked for a couple of minutes before shaking his head and saying, "You could have K-K-4-8."
, much to the delight of West.
board was out on the table. Jonathan Duhamel and Bill Gazes each had 8,300 chips out in front of them from the first three rounds of betting. It all happened verbally and very quietly, but one of them shoved the river, and the other called. It was Duhamel at risk for about 8,000, and the news was not good.
, though, and Mr. UTG finds a naked pair of queens as the best hand. He's doubled up and then some, the middle-position player is out, and Sands drops back to about 40,000.
flop, Tom Schneider and another player both got their money all in against Carlos Mortensen, and they were both in pretty fair shape to take a chunk from him.
(wheel draw, straight draw)
(top pair, wheel draw, straight draw)