Could Joe Cada be on his way to another bracelet? We walked into the hand after all the action was completed, where Cada and his opponent were all-in.
Cada:
Opponent:
Board:
We didn't get the amount of the pot, but Cada's chip count is around 62,000, putting him towards the top of the leader board and in contention for another bracelet.
David Peters was all in against Alex Masek and also a third opponent. When they got all the money in the three flipped over their cards.
Peters:
Masek:
Third Opponent:
The Tens were in the lead until... the flop of . Peters took the lead. He only needed to avoid nines or tens. The turn came the and the river the . Peters tripled up and eliminated Masek in the process. Peters is up to 56,100.
We just witnessed one of the biggest and longest pots of the tournament, ending in a 10 minute tank-fold by Ari Engel against Joe Cada.
The action started preflop, where Cada raised for 1,600 and Engel called.
The flop came , and Cada bet out around 25,000 and Engel called. The turn was the , and Cada lead out again with an 8,000 bet--Engel called again.
The river was a confusing , since Cada checked, Engle now bet 6,800, and Cada reraised 42,000 all-in. Engel tanked for at least 5 minutes before finally releasing the hand, losing nearly 40,000 chips in the process.
We noticed a fellow wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks hat and rocking a nice stashe. We wanted to say hi to Eric Baldwin but realized it was none other then Ryan Welch. We are not sure whether he lost a prop bet or he just admires Baldwin's looks. Either way we got to see him knock out an opponent.
It wasn't easy as he had to call a fairly large all in bet pre flop. After a while he made the call and was delighted to his opponent holding . Welch had his man trumped by having the .
The board held five cards lower to the jack and Welch knocked out his opponent. The
Baldwin look-alike is stacking and stashing 50,000.
We ran over to a table after we heard a loud screech, only to find Yi Wang will all his chips in the middle with . The board read , giving Wang a straight flush to the eight. We can only speculate about his opponent's hand, a possible ace-high flush, but we know that Wang hit the money one-outer on the river to take down a 25,000 pot and increase his stack to around 50,000.
Levon Khachatryan is now by far our chip leader. He is siting with 166,000 courtesy of cracking an opponents when he flopped a set with his . Khachatryan already had a big stack but now he is really rolling as the massive chip leader.