Joe Reitman was really hoping that Phil Gordon would be eliminated, so that Gordon would take over the microphone and the MC duties. It wasn't looking good for Gordon, all in with against pocket sevens and . But a king on the flop wound up tripling Gordon to 15,000, and then a few hands later he doubled all in pre-flop with against by flopping trip 10s.
Italian star Francesca Fioretti was recently knocked out of the tournament by Carter Phillips, much to David Alan Grier's disappointment.
"The most beautiful woman in the world was there," Grier said to the player who replace Fioretti. "Smell that chair! I didn't even want to be here anymore." Grier then moved all in. His wound up called in two spots, by pocket nines and pocket sixes.
Grier put his hands over his eyes so as not to watch the board roll out . "Am I out?" he asked.
"You're out," the dealer replied. Perhaps Grier can drown his sorrows with the other busted players (like Fioretti).
Last night at the World Series of BBQ, Joe Reitman sang Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies" dressed in a leotard. Annie Duke tried to show a video clip of the performance to Don Cheadle.
"I don't want to see that," said Cheadle. "He's not Beyonce!"
Duke put the clip (on her phone) in front of Cheadle anyway. Cheadle glanced at it for a few seconds, then said, "Ok, that's enough. I want my life back."
Co-host Annie Duke got her whole stack in with pocket eights, but wound up massively out-flopped by when the flop came all diamonds. Duke never improved. The stacks were counted down, leaving Duke with a single purple (T500) chip. She shrugged and kept her face buried in her phone. "It's just like at home," said Joe Reitman, now on the mic. "I can't get her to pay attention to me." Duke was out the next hand.