The dream is over for esteemed and beloved blogger Rick Dacey after he was knocked about by Full Tilt Poker Martins Adeniya.
Adeniya opened preflop with and Dacey defended his big blind to see a flop. Dacey check-called a bet on the flop before check-raising in on the turn. Adeniya called to see he needed to hit against Dacey's and managed to spike the on the river.
"The poker bloggers aren't going to like me after that one," said Adeniya.
Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen had a decision to make for all his chips. There was already around 15,000 in the middle and the Dane had about 10,000 left and had been set all in by his opponent Rene Hochmuth with the board reading .
Jorgensen took about two to three minutes before calling off his stack. Hochmuth turned over and Jorgensen's was no good.
With an open ahead of him Duncan McLellan decided to chuck the rest of his 3,750 stack in the middle. He was called by the player in the big blind and the original raiser agonised before mucking his hand.
McLellan tabled and was up against the .
The board ran out . McLellan started to rise from his seat but claimed he was just adjusting it when the straight was pointed out.
Dara O`Kearney is on his second bullet and has had quite a swingy day. It just got significantly worse as he opened under the gun for 400 and picked up three callers. The flop was and a continuation bet of 500 from O`Kearney found one caller in David Radnor on the button.
The turn card was the and O’Kearney fired again for 1,000 and Radnor called. The river was the and O’Kearney went for 3,000 this time. Radnor called and O’Kearney showed . Radnor looked a little bewildered at what he was seeing before turning over his winning .
O’Kearney briefly looked to the heavens before tweeting his frustration to his followers, “Seething in self loathing after triple barreling half my stack away. Not sporting a new slimline 6k stack #NoNeedForIt”
Chris Straghalis, who finished 19th in this event last year, has just doubled up against a fellow Rational Group Staff member. A simple case of holding against on a board for what looked to be a 30,000 chip pot.
Max Silver opened from first position and Stephen Trimble made the call. It was heads up to a flop of and Silver flicked out a T500 bet. Trimble called and they both checked the turn card . When the river fell the Silver checked once more and with all those spades on the board Trimble bet 2,000 and then decided to have another look at his cards?
“Got a spade?” Silver asked but was answered only with a smile. Silver called and saw the . “You have a spade.” Silver said and mucked.
Silver faced off against Willie Tann in the next hand, check-calling a bet of 1,600 from Tann on a flop of . The turn card was the and Silver check called a 2,500 bet from Tann. They both checked the river and Tann showed his for the flopped straight saying, “I can’t bet anymore in case you have the ace.”
Silver just nodded in agreement, left to reflect on a couple of pots that didn’t go his way to knock him just below starting stack.
Two generations of UK WSOP bracelet winners just got into a battle. Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody had fired a bet of 750 on the turn of a board. Willie Tan responded by making it 2,000 to go.
Cody thought for about 30 seconds before letting go of his hand.
Eugene Katchalov has re-entered the tournament a for a second time. The Ukrainian busted in the last level on Day 1A and will no doubt be hoping to last longer this time.
Duncan McLellan had just won a pot off Victoria Coren Mitchell where he admitted he forgot what his hand was when they got to the river explaining the check behind. He said he was running on just four hours sleep having spent the previous night at the bar with friends. McLellan laughed it off though saying he knew it was two picture cards and raised the next hand to 325.
Fintan Gavin was sat to his left and raised him to 1,100. As soon as the chips hit the felt McLellan uttered an, “Uh oh.” When it was folded back round to him however he decided to four-bet to 3,425.
“Jack queen? King queen.” Gavin probed before reaching for chips and five-betting to 8,000. McLellan made the call leaving around 8,000 behind. The flop was and a check from McLellan was met by a quick all in from Gavin.
McLellan quickly folded face up and was shown the in return. “I should have gone all in. I can’t believe how badly I played that” McLellan lamented.
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and Dacey defended his big blind to see a 
flop. Dacey check-called a bet on the flop before check-raising in on the 
turn. Adeniya called to see he needed to hit against Dacey's 
on the river.
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and Jorgensen's 
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. McLellan started to rise from his seat but claimed he was just adjusting it when the straight was pointed out.
and O’Kearney fired again for 1,000 and Radnor called. The river was the 
and O’Kearney went for 3,000 this time. Radnor called and O’Kearney showed 
. Radnor looked a little bewildered at what he was seeing before turning over his winning 
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board for what looked to be a 30,000 chip pot.
and Silver check called a 2,500 bet from Tann. They both checked the river 
and Tann showed his 
and a check from McLellan was met by a quick all in from Gavin.
