In a heads-up raised pot, the flop was 8♦Q♥2♠ when Rosalie Petit check-called Katie Lindsay for 1,300. The same action happened on the 4♥ turn, this time for 3,400.
On the 2♦ river, both checked and Petit tabled Q♣9♣ for top pair, which was good enough to make Lindsay muck her cards.
The board already read 9♦3♥5♠J♠ with a pot around 5,000 when Alexane Najchaus checked to Nicole Neal who bet 4,000. Najchaus replied by shoving for a remaining stack around 6,000 and Neal quickly called.
Najchaus showed 5♥3♣ for two pair while Neal held J♥10x and doubled her stack after the river fell the A♥.
Kathy Saraf opened with a 500 bet from under the gun and got four callers - Sara Dehghani in cutoff, Deborah Tallaksen on the button and blinds Lauren Harmon, Suzanne Gentner in small and big respectively.
Tallaksen was a bit busy chatting with her seatmates as the dealer flopped 9♥Q♠9♣, talking about her grandchild. The blinds checked the action back to Saraf who fired 700. Deghani folded, and Tallaksen raised to 1,400, pushing the blinds out of the hand.
With action back to her, Saraf considered her options ultimately folding. Tallaksen turned over her cards to show Q♥9♠ for a full house on the flop then continued relating how her grandchild wished her luck on the event.
In a three-bet pot, the flop was 5♠Q♦2♥ when Lina Niu bet 2,300 from the small blind and Sylwia Studniarz opted to call.
On the K♣ turn, Niu sent another barrel, for 6,600, and after a minute Studniarz decided to muck her cards.
Jian Levine from under the gun and Michelle Izzi from the hijack limped the pot. When action went to the small blind, Stephani Hagberg raised to 1,500 and got called by Lim Hyunjin in the big blind. Levine folded but Izzi joined the fun to see a flop.
The flop came J♦8♣Q♣. Both the blinds checked and Izzi fired 3,500. Hagberg went beyond and made it 9,000 pushing Hyunjin out of the pot.
Izzi took two seconds, then surrendered her hand and the pot to Hagberg.
Elisabetta Pedicelli opened with 500 in middle position and got a caller in Sue Grisham in the small blind, taking both players to the flop.
The flop dropped J♠9♥7♥ which both players checked. The turn 6♠ came and Grisham fattened the pot with a 1,000 bet. Pedicelli called.
On the river 6♥, Grisham fired another 2,000 which was enough to make Pedicelli fold.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Katherine Porrello raised from the button to 300, and the small blind Lina Niu called, as did Suzanne Malavet from the big blind. The flop came out with 7♥4♣A♦ and both of the blinds checked to Porello, who bet out 400. Niu folded, and Malavet called.
On the turn 2♥, Malavet checked, and Porrello bet 1,200. Malavet called again.
The river Q♦ saw Malavet check again, and Porrello quickly bet out 3,600. Malavet hesitated for a second and made the call.
Porrello queried, "Do you have an ace"?
Malavet flipped over 7♦5♥ for a pair of sevens, and Porrello flipped over K♠J♥.
Malavet stated, "I just knew you didn't have the ace".
Malavet received fourth place in this tournament in 2023.
Legend Barbara Enright is also at this tough table.
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