James Dempsey has been involved in some good-natured back and forth with Sam Farha. The two played a raised, heads-up flop of . Farha was out of position and check-called a bet from Dempsey. On the turn, Farha checked again and Dempsey bet again.
"Are you bluffing?" Farha asked.
Dempsey shrugged. "I can't say."
"Yes you are," said Farha. "You already did." He called, then check-called again on the river. Dempsey showed for two pair, aces and kings. Farha didn't have a low, so Dempsey scooped.
A few hands later Dempsey scooped another pot against Tony Merksck when he induced Merksick to fold on the river of a board.
Short-stacked James Dempsey is steamed up after a recent hand against Sergey Altbregin. Altbregin wound up check-raising the turn, , with Dempsey calling. Dempsey called one bet on the river and was absolutely disgusted to see Altbregin's , a full house, kings full of nines. Dempsey flashed the as he mucked.
Michael Chow and James Dempsey raised a few times back and forth to get the last of Chow's chips into the middle. Demspey held the and Chow the .
The flop came down and Dempsey stayed in front. The turn brought the and Dempsey was still ahead. The river completed the board with the and didn't help Chow. He was eliminated in sixth place for just under $100,000, but fell short of back-to-back Omaha-8 bracelets.
"Practice saying it," James Dempsey asked TD Robbie Thompson. "'James will win this pot.'"
Thompson just smiled as the cards came out. Action folded to Sam Farha, who limped in. Dempsey raised the button, clearing the blinds and getting him heads up with Farha. Farha checked a flop of , then called a bet from Dempsey. Both players checked the turn. At the river, Farha check-folded to a bet.
Nobody can stop Sam Farha right now. He just shipped two massive pots back-to-back. First, a three-way pot contested among Farha, Chow and Merksick saw four bets go in on a flop of . Farha checked, Chow bet, Merksick raised and Farha re-raised. Chow called the re-raise before Merksick put in the fourth bet. Everyone called to the turn. Farha bet and both players called. On the river , Farha bet again. Only Chow called, giving Farha the perfect opportunity to show quads -- . He dragged a pot of 850,000.
The very next hand, Farha tagged James Dempsey for two bets on the turn and one on the river of a board. "Quads again?" Dempsey asked. Not this time. Farha showed for trip fives. They were good enough.
Farha has his chips stacked in several massive towers, with dirty stacks mixed in, making it difficult to get an accurate count. He could have anywhere between 2.3 and 2.7 million.
Eugene Katchalov was all in preflop with Sammy Farha and Sergey Altbregin still left to act. The flop came down and Farha bet out. Altbregin made the call as Katchalov walked over to Nick Schulman on the rail and talked with him for a moment.
The turn brought the and Farha checked. Altbregin checked behind.
The river brought the and Farha, check-called a bet from Altbregin.
Altbregin tabled the and won the side pot first. He also eliminated Katchalov who held the .
Katch finished in seventh place and took home just shy of $75,000 for his efforts.
It seemed only fitting that, at the end, Abe Mosseri should be out-drawn. He was out-drawn repeatedly in the hour that came after the dinner break, decimating his stack pot by pot. On his final hand, he was all in on a flop of against Richard Zhu. Zhu was behind with against Mosseri's . The that came on the turn gave Zhu some spade out to go with his low draw, but killed some of his two pair outs. One two pair out it didn't kill was the that hit the river. Zhu improved to aces and queens against Mosseri's aces and nines to mercifully end Mosseri's run.
Mosseri pounded the table rail when he saw the river. Then he stood up, looked back at the board, shook his head and smiled a rueful smile.
"Wow. I tell ya," he said. "Wow. 1.1 [million chips] after dinner."
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. Farha was out of position and check-called a bet from Dempsey. On the 
turn, Farha checked again and Dempsey bet again.
river. Dempsey showed 
for two pair, aces and kings. Farha didn't have a low, so Dempsey scooped.
board.
, a full house, kings full of nines. Dempsey flashed the 
as he mucked.
and Chow the 
.
and Dempsey stayed in front. The turn brought the 
and Dempsey was still ahead. The river completed the board with the 
and didn't help Chow. He was eliminated in sixth place for just under $100,000, but fell short of back-to-back Omaha-8 bracelets.
turn. At the 
. Farha checked, Chow bet, Merksick raised and Farha re-raised. Chow called the re-raise before Merksick put in the fourth bet. Everyone called to the 
turn. Farha bet and both players called. On the river 
, Farha bet again. Only Chow called, giving Farha the perfect opportunity to show quads -- 
and won the side pot first. He also eliminated Katchalov who held the 
