Thomas Brown just took his seat in Amazon's Purple section and handed out $2 bills to each of his tablemates and the dealer. Brown explained that he does this at the start of every Main Event.
"I just think $2 bills are cool," Brown said.
Brown proceeded to limp from under the gun and got three callers before Johnny Landreth raised to 1,300 from the big blind. Brown and the button called to see a flop of .
All three players checked to the turn, when Landreth led out for 1,000. Only the button called, but he folded to a bet of 2,000 from Landreth on the river.
The action folded to the hijack who raised to 600. He was three-bet to 2,000 by Patrick McCullough in the cutoff. It folded back around to the original raiser and he made the call.
They went heads-up to the flop which came . It was checked to McCullough who continued for 3,000. His opponent called.
The turn card brought the . The original raiser took the betting lead and threw out 5,500. McCullough called,
The action checked to McCullough on the river. He fired 11,000. His opponent then jammed having him covered. McCullough only took a few seconds to call off his stack 47,600.
Patrick McCullough:
Opponenet:
The original raiser flopped top pair and picked up the nut flush draw on the turn but McCullough turned the six-high flush to win a giant pot.
Action was picked up on the turn with the board reading . Alfonso Cammarota bet 1,000, Scott Seiver raised to 3,500 from the cutoff and was called.
The river came the . Cammarota led out with a bet of 2,500. Seiver played with his chips in his hand and seemed on the fence about the decision before eventually placing the chips down for the call.
Cammarota tabled the for the straight and collected the pot.
2005 champion Joe Hachem just took his seat to the left of Nathan Gamble to begin his 16th Main Event. "What a special day this is," Hachem said.
As Hachem was counting his chips, Gamble three-bet from the button to 1,900 and an opponent called from under the gun. The flop came down , and Gamble won the pot with a continuation bet of 3,100.
In a three-bet pot for 1,500 each, the flop showed and the action checked to Timothy Gundrum on the button. He bet 3,000 and Scott Sitron was the only caller. The turn brought a check-call for 5,000 by Sitron and he then led the river for 10,000 in order to claim the pot without showdown, as Gundrum elected to fold.
Chanracy Khun can also be found at the same table as well.