Three-Way All In: Joe Cassidy Out in 7th Place ($154,747)

Hand #26  –  Joe Cassidy moves all in under the gun for 715,000, and Josh Arieh moves all in over the top from the cutoff. Steve O’Dwyer folds from the button, and Scotty Nguyen (small blind) holds his cards up off the table without protecting them, and says something like, "Oh baby, I would have called you if he didn’t." (Our reporter, standing a few feet away, clearly saw Scotty’s A-Q.) 

Shawn Buchanan is waiting to act in the big blind, and O’Dwyer gets upset that Scotty is holding his cards in a way that might allow Buchanan extra information. O’Dwyer says something like, "How hard is it to keep your cards on the felt? And why am I the only one concerned about it?"

Buchanan calls, making it a three-way all-in situation. Here are the hands, in descending order of chip counts: 

Josh Arieh:  [10d10s]
Shawn Buchanan:  [QhQs]
Joe Cassidy:  [KhJd]


Cassidy needs to improve to stay alive, while Buchanan is poised to double up (and then some) through Arieh.

The board comes [Jc5d4c7d5c], and Cassidy flops a pair of jacks but doesn’t improve beyond that. Buchanan wins the entire pot with his pocket queens.

Joe Cassidy is eliminated in seventh place, earning $154,747.

The final six players are filling out their WPT bio sheets and verifying their chip stacks, and we will post the official chip counts soon.