Alexander Wice: (X)(X) /
Steve Sung: (X)(X) /
Stephen Su: (X)(X) /
We caught up with the action in this hand when Wice bet on fourth street, getting calles from both Su and Sung. Su caught an ace on fifth street and made a bet with Wice calling, but Sung folding. Su's bet on sixth street was enough to convince Wice to lay down the hand.
Alexander Wice has had a roller coaster ride through our first few rounds of stud this level.
Steve Sung: (X)(X) /
Stephen Su: (X)(X) /
Sigurd Eskeland: /
Alexander Wice: (X)(X) / / (X)
Sung made the bring in with Su following it up with a completion. Eskeland three-bet and Wice called. Su decided he didn't want to be involved after all and folded.
Eskeland bet on fourth and fifth streets, getting called by Wice each time. Both players checked sixth street and the river with Wice mucking his hands after seeing Eskeland's set.
However, Wice found some redemption on the next hand.
Nikolai Yakovenko: (X)(X) /
Alexander Wice: /
Steve Sung: (X)(X) /
Yakovenko was made to bring in with Wice completing and then calling a three-bet from Sung after Yakovenko folded.
Sung bet on fourth street, getting called by Wice. He'd bet again on fifth street and then called a raise from Wice. Wice checked the river but called a bet from Sung.
Wice showed a set of eights and Sung mucked. After the hand was done Wice was up over 900,000 while Sung slipped further away from a million
Stephen Su: (X)(X) / / (X)
Nikolai Yakovenko: (X)(X) / / (X)
Su completed on third and Yakovenko made the call. Su then fired bets on fourth and fifth with Yakovenko calling on each street. Both players checked sixth and Yakovenko called a bet from Su on seventh.
Su opened a from underneath and Yakovenko mucked his hand, giving Su this pot.
Scott Seiver had the last of his chips in preflop against Steve Sung. Seiver held the up against the for Sung.
The flop came down and both players picked up a low draw and it was Seiver's aces still in the lead for the high. The turn brought the and gave Sung a low while Seiver still held the best high.
"That's not a good turn card," said Seiver.
The river completed the board with the and Seiver said, "And that's not a good river," knowing it gave Sung two pair with jacks and threes to go along with his low. Sung was able to scoop the entire pot and scoop Seiver out of the tournament in sixth place.
With Seiver's elimination, he lost the last-longer bet he made with Chino Rheem where Rheem had taking Sung over Seiver at 3:1 on $1,000.
Alexander Wice raised from the small blind and Steve Sung defended his big blind. The flop came down and Wice fired out. Sung raised him and Wice called. The turn brought the and Wice check-folded to a bet from Sung.
On the next hand, Sigurd Eskeland raised from the cutoff seat, Wice called from the button and Scott Seiver called from the big blind. The three players took an all-heart flop of . Seiver checked, Eskeland bet, Wice folded and Seiver called.
The turn brought the and Seiver check-called Eskeland's bet. The river completed the board with the and Seiver check-called agin.
Eskeland tabled the for a heart flush along with a low of 8-6-4-3-A. He scooped the pot against Seiver's and moved up to 581,000 in chips. Seiver was knocked to just under 100,000.
Continuing with their onslaught of playing hands together, Scott Seiver and Alexander Wice tangled again. This time, Wice raised preflop and then called Seiver's three-bet before the flop came down . Wice check-called a bet from Seiver on the flop.
The turn brought the and Wice check-called another bet. The river completed the board with the and both players checked.
WIce tabled the after Seiver showed the . Wice won the pot with a pair of tens and moved to 795,000, winning this battle between the two. Seiver dropped back to 280,000.