Nível: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Nível: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
David "Bakes" Baker has a laid back personality, a cool nickname, and after the last hand he played, a stack that is now as high as a kite.
Bakes called a raise of 13,000 out of the big blind, seeing a flop of spread across the green felt. The early position raiser continued with his aggressive line, leading for 14,000, and Baker came along to see the drop on the turn.
After his opponent fired up another bet of 33,000 his way, Bakes made the call, bringing the on board.
Both players knuckled the table, and when he rolled over , Bakes top pair blazed a path to yet another potential final table appearance.
Athanasios Polychronopoulos just knocked out another player to add to his chip lead. He held and needed help against his opponent's . The flop made it hard for Polychronopoulos to win the hand. The turn gave him a way to win. Any club would do.
And the river came the . Out of nowhere Polychronopoulos won the hand and he knocked out his opponent in dramatic fashion. He is enjoying the chip lead with 765,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Athanasios Polychronopoulos |
765,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
Athanasios Polychronopoulos is known on the circuit for his long last name, as well as for his WSOP bracelet win in a 2011 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event, and tonight he is moving closer to a second win here at poker's premier series.
After Polychronopoulos limped in, a player in the hijack raised the action to 29,500, and the young pro decided on a three-bet to 75,500. This move must have rattled is young opponent, because he had trouble counting out the appropriate chips for a call, first placing an insufficient amount in the pot, then throwing to many orange T5000 tournament chips towards the dealer.
Nonetheless, the call was made and the two players took a flop of . That's when the hand appeared to enter some sort of time warp, because although the action was checked through the turn (), more than seven minutes passed while both players stared at each other, the board, their stacks, and perhaps even Amnon Filippi's spiffy iPad stand across the table.
When the finally arrived on the river, another long pause preceded Polychronopoulos' next move, which happened to be an all-in shove. This time, his opponent didn't need any time to think things through, and his cards went sailing towards the muck.
Levon Khachatryan and his opponent were all in preflop. Khachatryan had his opponent barely covered.
Khachatryan:
Opponent:
The board ran out and with that Khachatryan nearly doubles as he knocks out his opponent. He sits with 155,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Levon Khachatryan |
155,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
Holding , Amnon Filippi elected to reraise a player in the small blind, making it 22,000 to play after that player opened for 13,000. The small blind was unafraid, however, and he shipped the rest of his 87,000 stack with the .
Filippi was in a dominant position, and the flop of put him even further ahead of the suited connector held by his opponent.
The on the turn made things interesting, giving the small blind a gutshot draw to make Broadway, while giving Filippi a sweat.
River:
The brick on fifth street sealed the deal, sending the rest of the small blind player's chips to the dangerous pro from New York City.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Amnon Fillipi
|
335,000
335,000
|
335,000 |
When Spencer Uniss woke up in the small blind with , he shipped his short stack of 58,000 into the middle.
Ken Stroud saw an opportunity to eliminate an opponent and move one step closer to the final table, so he decided to call with the .
Stroud found himself dominated by Uniss' better kicker, and the final runout of left Stroud with an inferior two pair.
"You didn't believe me?" Uniss asked Stroud, while stacking his newly acquired chips.
"What's that got to do with it?" Stroud shot back, obviously frustrated that he had not found the coin flip situation he was looking for when he made the call.
"The kid is back!" replied Uniss to nobody in particular, obviously excited at earning a second chance to bag and tag chips at the end of the night.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Spencer Uniss |
116,000
99,200
|
99,200 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Athanasios Polychronopoulos |
555,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
||
Jacob Schindler |
405,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
||
Ian Frazer |
335,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Joe Kuether |
322,000
278,000
|
278,000 |
Manuel Mutke |
295,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Matt Jarvis |
273,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
Matt Matros |
270,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
||
Joshua Hillock |
270,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
Fabricio Schaffrath |
270,000
222,300
|
222,300 |
Evan Schwartz |
265,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
Joe Cada |
205,000
-93,000
|
-93,000 |
|
||
Amnon Filippi |
205,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
||
Jake Balsiger |
190,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
Levon Khachatryan |
160,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Barry Greenstein |
143,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
||
Michael Borovetz |
117,000
117,000
|
117,000 |
Robert Corcione |
104,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Blake Purvis | Eliminado | |
Jeffery Finkelstein | Eliminado | |
Vanessa Selbst | Eliminado | |
|
||
Michael Shelton | Eliminado |
If you didn't have the time to grind PokerNews for the latest on this beloved game, we've got you covered. The best place to catch up on the top news stories is in the PokerNews Weekly.
There have been several winners of major tournaments besides the 2013 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Champions were also crowned at the PokerStars.net ANZPT5 Repecharge in Melbourne, and the International Stadiums Poker Tour in London. As always, PokerNews was on hand for all these crowning moments.
We'll be back in 60 minutes.