With about 50,000 in the middle on a three-way flop of ![]()
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and 65,000 sitting in front of Tyler Patterson, Curtis Rystadt bumped it up to 165,000. The other player in the hand folded quickly and after a moment, Patterson followed suit.
2014 World Series of Poker
Action folded around to Costa Rica's Humberto Brenes on the button and he opened big to 6,000. Olivier Busquet was in the small blind and opted to play back with a three-bet to 20,000. The big blind folded and then Brenes stared his opponent down before sliding his stack of 60,000 or so in the middle. Busquet snap-called.
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"I didn't believe you," Brenes told Busquet, who had the best of it. Even so, Brenes was drawing to two live cards. That changed though when the ![]()
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flop delivered Busquet a pair of aces.
"Just to make it interesting," Kevin Pollak said just after the dealer burned and turned the
, which gave Brenes a flush draw. It certainly was exciting, but Brenes would find no luck on the river as the useless
peeled off.
James Schwamman opened to 3,600 from early position only to have Ian Simpson three-bet next to act to 7,600. Once the action returned to Schwamman, he four-bet to 15,600, then Simpson moved all in. Schwamman called all in for roughly 34,000 total, and the cards were tabled.
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With Schwamman at risk but in the lead, the ![]()
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flop gave Simpson outs to a flush, and when the
landed on the turn, six more outs were added for Simpson as he could now strike a chop.
The dealer then delivered the
on the river to pair Simpson's king, and Schwamman was sent to the rail as Simpson climbed to 144,000 in chips.
The board read ![]()
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when we picked up the action as Samuel Taylor checked to Jeffrey Oh. Oh bet 12,400 in position and after a while Taylor called.
The river was the
and Taylor checked once more. Oh bet 25,000 with not too many chips left behind, and Taylor made the call.
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for a flopped set and took the pot down.
Phil Ivey raised from early position to 3,800. Action then folded to Robert Willis in the big blind, and he reraised all in for 12,500. Ivey called with the ![]()
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Although Ivey took the lead on the ![]()
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flop, turn
turn card gave Willis a set. The river was the
, and Willis was able to double up.