NLH

With blinds of 6,250/12,500 and an ante of 1,500, "orionguide108" raised to 37,500 on the button and "hunterm708" called in the small blind. The flop fell and "hunterm708" checked. "orionguide108" made a ;continuation-betof 31,400 and "hunterm708" checkjammed for over 760,000 effective.

"orionguide108" folded and "hunterm708" took down the pot, taking their stack over 1 million in the process.

Player	Chips	Progress
hunterm108	1,054,286
orionguide108	731,287 -33,944	-33,944
123456ers	539,427 -101,000	-101,000

Stud

With limits of 20,000/40,000 and an ante of 4,000:

"UREMPTYSEAT" was the bring in. "oringuide108" completed and "UREMPTYSEAT" called. "orionguide108" bet fourth, fifth, and sixth streets and were called each time. They checked the river and "UREMPTYSEAT" fired out a bet, which "orionguide108" called to take the hand to showdown.

"UREMPTYSEAT": /
"orionguide108": /

"UREMPTYSEAT" had called down with a pair of treys and bet it on the river, but "orionguide108" check-called with their pair of aces and took down the pot to leave "UREMPTYSEAT" with just one-and-a-half big bets remaining in their stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
orionguide108	854,004 183,000	183,000
UREMPTYSEAT	57,477 -158,313	-158,313

Razz

With limits of 17,500/35,000 and an ante of 3,500:

"UREMPTYSEAT" was the bring in with . "whoopsboom" completed and was called only by "123456ers". "whoopsboom" bet every street all the way through the river and "123456ers" called down to take the hand to showdown.

"whoopsboom": /
"123456ers": /

"whoopsboom" had bet all the way with a ninety-eight but "123456ers" called down with the best hand the whole way, finishing with an eighty-seven to earn them the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
123456ers	453,631 241,500	241,500
whoopsboom	194,273 -96,250	-96,250

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Omaha Hi-Lo

With blinds of 8,750/17,500 and bets of 17,500/35,000, "hunterm708" raised on the button and "UREMPTYSEAT" three-bet in the big blind. "hunterm708" called to see a flop of , and then called a continuatio-bet from "UREMPTYSEAT" thereafter.

"UREMPTYSEAT" continued on the turn , firing a second barrel that "hunterm708" raised, and "UREMPTYSEAT" made the call. The river fell and "UREMPTYSEAT" check-called a final bet from "hunterm708" to take the pot to showdown.

"UREMPTYSEAT":
"hunterm708":

Both players had the nut low, but "hunterm708" had top pair, top kicker to go along with it and win the high for three-quarters of the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
hunterm708	883,052 67,812	67,812
UREMPTYSEAT	215,790 -120,312	-120,312