Barry Shulman has the button and is first to act. He folds, sending the action over to Ty Reiman who raises to 535,000. Harrison Gimbel folds and Reiman takes down the pot.
Harrison Gimbel has the button in Seat 5. He folds, and Barry Shulman moves all in for 2.565 million from the small blind. Ty Reiman quickly calls from the big blind with his towers and towers of chips, and Shulman is officially at risk. (But ahead.)
Shulman:
Reiman
The flop is safe but awfully scary for Shulman as it comes out . The crowd screams for the cards they want as the dealer turns the . Nobody was shouting for that card, in particular, as it changed nothing. Needing to fade almost half the deck, Shulman grimaced as the dealer burned and dealt the river: . That's safe as well, and Shulman's ace-high holds to double him up.
"Feelin' good!" yells his wife from the rail. "Feelin' good and lookin' good!"
Ty Reiman has the button in Seat 8. Benjamin Zamani opens the pot with a raise to 400,000. Harrison Gimbel then announces "All in" from the small blind. Zamani counts his own stack down before diving into the tank.
"Wow," mouthed Zamani as he considered his decision. A long three minutes passes before Zamani acts.
"Call," Zamani tells the dealer.
At the showdown, Zamani tables ; he'd be racing Gimbel's .
The appears in the door and Gimbel's rail erupts. The other two flop cards are the and .
The turn brings the giving Zamani outs for a straight, but the river delivers the cementing Zamani's fate.
After the hand, Gimbel stacked up approximately 16.5 million in chips.
Benjamin Zamani has the button in Seat 7, and he limps into the pot. Ty Reiman folds his small blind, and Harrison Gimbel takes a free flop from the big.
Both men check-check the flop of , and the action repeats on the turn . The river comes the , and Gimbel checks one last time. Zamani stabs with 225,000 chips, and Gimbel flicks the calling chips off his stack with a shrug.
Zamani shows up , and he wins the pot with his pair of fives.
Harrison Gimbel has the button and opens with a raise to 400,000 which is called by Benjamin Zamani in the big blind.
The flop comes and both players check. The turn brings the and Zamani leads out with a bet of 360,000. Gimbel makes the call and the action moves to the river -- .
Two quick checks prompt an early showdown where Zamani tables for a pair of kings, queen kicker. Gimbel too shows a pair of kings, but his ten kicker is inferior to Zamani's and he surrenders.