After Justin Pechie raised from the cutoff Joe Mandia three-bet from the small blind. Pechie called and the flop came . Mandia bet 15K, Pechie called, which he did when Mandia bet 30K after the turned. But when the fell on the river, Justin raised after Joe bet, and this set Mandia to thinking. He started at the board for a minute before he pushed forward his chips.
Pechie turned over for two pair, which beat Mandia's and won him a big pot.
While under the gun, Hal Havlisch raised and Michael Graffeo re-raised. Havlisch 3-bet and Graffeo capped it, setting Havlisch all-in. Graffeo's dominated Havlisch's , but the flop came to give Havlisch the lead. The on the turn and on the river gave Havlisch the hand and doubled him up for the second time today.
You hear that "chip and a chair" saying all the time, but coming back from a deficit like that is HARD. As Gerald Kane just discovered, as he tossed in his last chip while holding . A great starting hand, but Tommy Rounds found pocket Fours and Kane needed to find some help to stay alive.
But the board didn't supply that help and Gerald Kane was eliminated in 9th place, good for a $13,745 payday.
And we mean that literally. After calling William Jensen's raise before the flop Kane called Jensen's bets on the flop, turn and river and with the board reading Jensen turned over pocket Kings. "I can't beat Kings," Kane said, and tossed his cards in the muck. And then he picked up the single, solitary chip left to him and held it up to his friends in the crowd. "I still have one left!" he said.
After seeing a flop Tommy Rounds bet from the small blind and was called by Michael Graffeo. When the fell on the turn Rounds bet 20K and was raised to 40,000 by Graffeo. Rounds called, and then both played checked the on the river. Graffeo's outkicked Rounds' to win a nice pot.
At least at the start of today's final table a raise is usually good enough to take down the pot. The only big confrontations we've seen so far involved the two short stacks and a big chopped pot.
After Saif Ahmad raised to 20K Robert Pacleb called in the big blind. The flop came and Pacleb check-called Ahmad's 10K bet. He also check-called after the on the turn and when the arrived on the river Pacleb bet the last of his chips. Ahmad called and found that Pacleb had been sitting on . Saif mucked his cards and Robert doubled up.