This is the 14th time that Lauren Kling has cashed at the World Series of Poker, her best result coming in 2013 when she finished 387th in the Main Event, a result that netted the Las Vegas resident $28,063. For Kling to better that result in this event, she'll need to reach the final table.
One way she will be able to achieve that goal is knowing when to go with a hand and when to fold one. She did the latter a short while ago when she raised to 13,000 from under the gun and faced an all-in bet of 99,500 from the big blind. Kling tanked for over a minute before releasing her hand back to the dealer.
Kling looked genuinely pained in her decision making and looked to have made a big lay down.
Seth Berger made the call on the button after a player pushed all in from middle position. He flipped over and it looked likely that he would double up the short stack who had . The flop and turn were a harmless . But the river changed everything when the paired Berger's hand and he raked in the pot, eliminating his opponent.
With a board of , Erik Cajelais moved all in and was quickly called by Ray Qartomy. Cajelais turned over for a flopped straight, however Qartomy tabled for a turned flush and Qartomy raked in a massive 400,000 chip pot.
Mark Reilly pushed his stack in from under the gun and Herb West pushed all in over the top from middle position. The rest of the players at the table folded.
Reilly:
West:
Both player's paired their hand on the board of , but West's queens were the better pair. Reilly headed to the cage to collect $8,455.
The beginning-of-day chip leader has met his demise in this event. Jason Pritchard began the day with the biggest mound of chips and built it up throughout the day, but he just lost his stack to Perry Friedman, another player with a consistently-large stack since the beginning of the day.
The two of them got it all in preflop and we had a race.
Pritchard:
Friedman:
It looked as though Pritchard's pair would hold up, but a king fell on the river and Pritchard was eliminated.
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and it looked likely that he would double up the short stack who had 
. The flop and turn were a harmless 
. But the river changed everything when the 
paired Berger's hand and he raked in the pot, eliminating his opponent.
, Erik Cajelais moved all in and was quickly called by Ray Qartomy. Cajelais turned over 
for a flopped straight, however Qartomy tabled 
, but West's queens were the better pair. Reilly headed to the cage to collect $8,455.
