Chris Moorman and Anthony Ruberto were just in a hand and the flop was . Moorman bet out 125,000 and Ruberto raised to 315,000 fairly quickly. Moorman rechecked his cards, took a moment to think and then announced all in.
Ruberto leaned way back in his chair and sighed. Moorman's all in would cost around 360,000 more. After some thought Ruberto folded. Moorman emphatically tabled his cards -- .
Ruberto didn't show any signs of steaming, but can't be happy with that.
We came into this hand on the flop, but it was raised up by Dan O'Brien preflop in middle position with a call from Daniel Morgan on the button. Thus, the battle of the Dan's commenced.
On the flop of O'Brien bet 28,000 and got a call from Morgan.
The turn came and O'Brien bet out 94,000. Morgan re-raised to 220,000 with only 350,000 behind. O'Brien took his time then moved all in inciting an insta-fold from Morgan.
O'Brien's aggression has put him up to 1,200,000 and he is currently second in chips.
Mazin Khoury opened to 32,000 from the cutoff and action folded around to Ionel Anton in the big blind. Ionel called to see the flop of . Anton check-called 33,000 from Khoury and the turn came . Anton check-called again, this time 58,000 from Khoury. The river came and both players checked.
Anton tabled for aces up and Khoury tossed his cards in the muck.
Benjamin Pollak got his last 310,000 in preflop and got a call from our chip leader, Anthony Ruberto.
Ruberto showed and was ahead of the of Pollak.
The board was kind to Pollak however and the flop came to give him a pair of kings. The turn and river didn't give any help to Ruberto and he shipped the 310,000 over to Pollak. Ruberto only takes a small hit, down to about 1,550,000, but Pollak got his much needed double up to 650,000
Dan O'Brien was under the gun and opened to 32,000. Action folded back around to Jesse James in the big blind and he called. The flop came , James checked and O'Brien bet 38,000. James called and the turn came , which both players checked. The river was the and James bet 68,000. O'Brien called, James tabled and O'Briend revealed and took the pot.
Sam Grafton moved all in from the cutoff for 235,000 and Anthony Ruberto called from the small blind. Grafton held and Ruberto tabled . The board ran and Ruberto's set sent Grafton to an applauding rail.