2014 World Series of Poker
Players are on a 20-minute break.
First Maurice Hawkins lost a preflop all in with pocket kings against pocket aces for 359,000. Shortly after, Hawkins played the same opponent again and three-bet from 24,000 to 56,000 to see the ![]()
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flop. Both players checked and the
showed up on the turn.
Hawkins bet 58,000, the opponent raised to 120,000 and Hawkins made it 190,000 to go. The opponent called and they both checked the
river. Hawkins tabled ![]()
as winning hand and got almost back where he was before.
Three players were eliminated almost at the same time and we are not sure who hit the rail against Brandon Eisen. It was Eisen who opened to 29,000 from early position, Matthew Lapossie three-bet to 70,000 and a short stack moved all in for 160,000. Eisen reshoved all in for 550,000 and Lapossie folded jacks.
Eisen had ![]()
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of the opponent and the board ran out ![]()
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Kenny Shih moved all in for 210,000 from early position and Xiao Peng called, all other players mucked their cards. It was a classic coin flip with ![]()
for Peng against the ![]()
of Shih and the Canadian improved on the ![]()
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board.
We weren't able to see how he did it but Eric "Basebaldy" Baldwin has eclipsed the million chip mark. Impressive considering he was under 200,000 less than two hours ago.
Sergio Castelluccio moved all in for 12 big blinds with ![]()
and one seat over, Brandon Eisen reshoved all in himself to isolate successfully. It was an incredible bad timing for the Italian as Eisen held ![]()
and knocked him out.