A player in early position went all in for 5,200. Action folded around to Cherish Andrews who called the all in from the small blind. The big blind woke up with a hand and went all in behind for an additional 6,200. Andrews put herself in a dilemma and ended up calling.
Early Position:
Andrews:
Big Blind:
The board came and the player in the big blind takes the pot leaving Andrews short.
Max Silver's tournament has come to an abrupt end with less than 100 spots to the money. He committed his stack with against on an flop (that had two hearts on it) and missed his outs.
We just caught the tail end of a huge double up for Nacho Barbero when it was Barbero's kings against his opponent's sixes on a board of . His opponent was in disbelief: "I can't believe you didn't lay that down."
Without skipping a beat and while still stacking his chips, Barbero raised from under the gun to 1,350. It folded around to the big blind who called.
Both players checked the flop. The big blind led for 1,600 on the turn and Barbero called. Barbero check called the big blind's bet of 3,500 when the river fell.
The big blind turned over for king-high and Barbero won his second pot in a row with for ace-high.
Phil Ivey is not usually known for his playful demeanour while he is playing poker, but he seems to be in great spirits today and looks to be thoroughly enjoying himself. We've seen him laughing and joking with his table mates and just now he even showed the winning hand to an opponent when he didn't need to.
The button raised to 1,400 and Ivey defended his big blind with a call. The flop was checked by both players, but Ivey led for 2,000 when the appeared on the turn. The button folded and asked Ivey to show and to everyone's surprise Ivey flipped over the to show he had trip fours, doing so with a cheeky grin on his face.
If you had said to the PokerNews Live Reporting team that with two levels remaining Event #18 would only be 100 players away from reaching the money we would probably have laughed in your face. But that is the situation we find ourselves in. We are just 100 players away from the money despite starting the day with 2,071 entrants!