We were walking towards the table that has Andy Seth and Gregory Brooks and noticed Seth pacing around by his seat. We went over to check it out, and this is what we saw. The board read , and there was about 30,000 in the pot. There was a bet of 16,000 out in front of Seth, yet he was the one counting out his chips and looking pained by a decision while Brooks sat silently like a stone wall. Its safe to assume that Brooks had announced a pot sized raise, and Seth was tormented by his decision. After at least five minutes of standing and staring at Brooks, the clock was called on Seth. It dwindled down, and as the floor counted down from 10, Seth never moved, not even when the clock ran out. His hand was dead, and the pot was shipped over to Brooks, who rubbed some salt in the wound by showing for a two pair that Seth said he could beat.
The action folded around to Jason Mercier who called from the small blind; Brandon Paster checked his big blind before Mercier check-called Paster's bet of 1,600 on the flop of .
Both players then checked the turn of the before Mercier fired out 3,800. Paster clearly wasn't interested, flashing the before sending his hand into the muck.
Isaac Baron raised to 2,700 from the cutoff and received a lone caller in the form of Vladislav Vashtai from the big blind. Vashtai then checked the flop, Baron bet a modest 3,100, and Vashtai insta-mucked. Small pot to Baron.
Action folded to Vincent van der Fluit on the button and he put in a raise to 2,600. The small blind got out of the way while David Benefield three-bet to 8,000 from the big. Van der Fluit made the call and watched as the flop came down . Benefield didn't take long before firing out 6,500, which van der Fluit quickly made 13,500. Benefield thought for a few seconds before tossing in a call.
When the appeared on the turn, Benefield checked and van der Fluit asked for a count. Benefield had 43,500 back, so van der Fluit bet 40,000. Benefield committed his entire stack, van der Fluit made the call, and the cards were turned up.
van der Fluit:
Benefield:
Benefield was behind van der Fluit's trip sixes, but he did have outs to any spade or ace. With 120K in the pot, the dealer burned and slowly put out the . Benefield was elated to take down the pot while van der Fluitcould only shake his head in disbelief.
As we wandered past table 369, we saw Matthew Ezrol raise to 2,500 from the cutoff pre-flop before Michael "Timex" McDonald repotted it from the big blind. Ezrol called, but was quick to fold after McDonald fired out 9,600 on the flop of .
McDonald chuckled as he raked in the pot, but we bet that he would have loved to have seen more action with his !
Andy Seth raised to 2,500 from middle position and received a call from David "Devilfish" Ulliott on the button. The blinds cleared out and it was heads up to the flop. Seth was first to act and bet 4,000, which Devilfish called. Both players then checked the turn, leading to the river.
Again both players checked and Devilfish said, "Three queens," before turning over . Sith double checked his cards before slinging them to the muck.
Over on table 368, we picked up the action four-handed into a raised pot on a flop of . Praz Bansi checked from the big blind, as did Hans Winzeler before Joseph Cheong led out for 5,500. Robert Shortway folded from the button, as did Bansi before Winzeler called before the dealer produced the turn of the .
Winzeler checked and Cheong opened for 14,500, but Winzeler then check-raised the pot. Cheong called and the cards were tabled:
Cheong:
Winzeler:
The river was the useless and with both players holding the eight-high straight, they took an equal share of the pot.
Gregory Bastin raised to 2,500 under the gun and received a call from Jared Bleznick in middle position and Joe Hachem on the button. All three players proceeded to checked the flop, leading to the on the turn. Hachem and Bastin both checked, allowing Bleznick to bet 5,000. Hachem folded, Bastin called, and the appeared on the river.
The action went check-check as Bastin showed for queens and jacks. It was good as Bleznick rapped the table and mucked his hand.
As opposed to the fast and furious action we witnessed during yesterday's Day 1, most of the players have now started at a snail's place this afternoon here in the Amazon Room.
In an earlier hand over on table 366, the action folded around to Jesper Hougaard who raised to 2,500 from the button. Stephane Tayar called from the big blind, only to check-fold after Hougaard flung out 3,400 after the flop of .
It's been very much the same for the uber-aggressive Tom Dwan - after Micah Smith came in with a raise worth 2,400 from the cutoff, Dwan called out of the small blind, as did Benjamin Spindler from the big blind to go three-handed to the flop of . Dwan checked to Spindler, who fired out 5,000, but both Smith and Dwan folded their hands.
We came to Jeffrey Lisandro's table as the flop read . Lisandro bet out 5,000, and his opponent, Alessandro Nocerino, moved all in for 15,000. Lisandro called quickly, and the players tabled their cards.
Lisandro:
Nocerino:
Both players had flush draws, but Lisandro's was the better one. And when the hit the turn, Nocerino was drawing dead. The river came the , and Lisandro instantly added Nocerino's stack to his, upping him to 83,000.
, and there was about 30,000 in the pot. There was a bet of 16,000 out in front of Seth, yet he was the one counting out his chips and looking pained by a decision while Brooks sat silently like a stone wall. Its safe to assume that Brooks had announced a pot sized raise, and Seth was tormented by his decision. After at least five minutes of standing and staring at Brooks, the clock was called on Seth. It dwindled down, and as the floor counted down from 10, Seth never moved, not even when the clock ran out. His hand was dead, and the pot was shipped over to Brooks, who rubbed some salt in the wound by showing 
for a two pair that Seth said he could beat.
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before Mercier fired out 3,800. Paster clearly wasn't interested, flashing the 
before sending his hand into the muck.
appeared on the turn, Benefield checked and van der Fluit asked for a count. Benefield had 43,500 back, so van der Fluit bet 40,000. Benefield committed his entire stack, van der Fluit made the call, and the cards were turned up.
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turn, leading to the 
. Sith double checked his cards before slinging them to the muck.
and with both players holding the eight-high straight, they took an equal share of the pot.
