Benjamin Pollak opened to 7,500 under the gun and called a three-bet to 22,000 from Brian Rast on the button. Both players checked down a [5d8h8c3s4h[ board till the river where Pollak check-folded to a big bet of 50,000 from Rast.
The dust had settled at the table where Benjamin Pollak and formerly Jared Bleznick were seated by the time we got to the table. Bleznick was leaving the table and Pollak was adding some fresh ammunition to his already monstrous stack.
With the pot, Pollak is now in the top spot of the chip counts.
With about 65,000 in the pot on the river of a board, Dan Shak checked and Aaron Katz fired a big bet worth 55,000. Shak snap-called and painfully mucked his when Katz announced "jack," tabling the turning a full house to crack Shak's pocket kings.
David Oppenheim: //
Randy Ohel: //folded on sixth
Bryn Kenney: //
We picked up the action on sixth street with David Oppenheim already all in and Randy Ohel check-folding to a bet from Bryn Kenney.
Both Oppenheim and Kenney received their final down card and Oppenheim's was only good for a pair missing his flush draw and Kenney took it down making trips with the .
We arrived at the table to see Ben Yu's stack being cut down and Frank Kassela having to pay the price. It appears to have been a blind-vs-blind battle where Kassela may have misjudged the size of Yu's stack. Regardless, the money went all in preflop with Yu having the and Kassela having the .
Yu was able to spike an eight on a board and score the double up.