Breaking Hands
The players are now on a 20-minute break and will continue with hand for hand play at the same level when they return.
The players are now on a 20-minute break and will continue with hand for hand play at the same level when they return.
Players have returned from break and are now returning to hand for hand play.
A selection of photographs by Joe Giron
With only 3,900 chips left after the ante, recent bracelet winner Michael Malm moved all in from the cutoff. Action folded to David "The Dragon" Pham in the big blind who called without looking at his cards.
Malm:
Pham:
The flop of was safe for Malm, but Pham did pick up a pair of sixes. The turn was the giving Pham even more outs the straight. The river gave Pham that straight and it eliminated Malm from the tournament with no prize for his time.
Fortunately for Malm he just won a bracelet in Event #8: $2,500 8-Game Mix for $225,104 and thinking about that will certainly soften the blow of bubbling from this tournament.
Nível: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Scott Seiver |
170,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
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Matt Berkey |
152,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Jonathan Roy |
125,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
Nick Schulman | 102,000 | |
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Andrew Lichtenberger |
98,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
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Jonathan Little |
95,000
25,900
|
25,900 |
Faraz Jaka |
90,000
57,400
|
57,400 |
|
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Layne Flack |
84,000
35,100
|
35,100 |
|
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Scott Baumstein |
61,000
30,100
|
30,100 |
Andy Hwang | 55,000 | |
Tim West |
53,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
Amit Makhija |
51,000
3,200
|
3,200 |
Erik Seidel |
45,000
-33,000
|
-33,000 |
|
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Mike Watson |
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
Jonathan Aguiar |
21,000
-29,500
|
-29,500 |
|
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Brock Parker |
20,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
In a span of two hands just after the bubble Matt Waxman was sent to the rail.
On the first hand, Erik Seidel raised to 3,500. In the next seat over, Waxman moved all in for roughly 24,000. Action folded to Jonathan Aguiar in the small blind who moved all in for less than Waxman. Action folded back around to Seidel who folded.
Waxman:
Aguiar:
The flop left Waxman drawing thin when it came and on the turn, he needed to hit a queen and only a queen to eliminate Aguiar. But the river was the giving Waxman a boat too, but a worse boat. Aguiar doubled up and Waxman was left crippled.
On the next hand Waxman raised to 3,200 from the hijack seat, leaving himself just about 1,000 chips behind. Action folded to the big blind who put Waxman all in.
"Hmmmm," he said toying with his opponent, pretending to think before calling. He put the chips in and was happy to see his was ahead of his opponents . Waxman was not happy though that the board ran out to give his opponent a winning pair of sevens.
Waxman was still able to outlast the bubble and picked up a mincash for his efforts.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Aguiar |
44,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
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Matt Waxman | Eliminado | |
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We arrived at the table to find the aftermath of a hand where Eric Crain eliminated one of his opponent's from play. Crain's opponent was all in before the flop holding and was racing with Crain's .
The board ran out and Crain was able to make his heart flush, sending his opponent packing soon after the bubble hurst. Crain was all smiles as he dragged in the pot and as well he should be as he is currently sitting on about 120,000 in chips.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Eric Crain |
120,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
We walked into a hand between Faraz Jaka and Jonathan Little. Both players almost had the exact same stack, minus a 400 difference.
The action picked up with a preflop raise from Little followed by three-bet from Jaka. Little responded with a four-bet, and Jaka moved all-in. Little snap-called, turning over . Jaka showed .
The board ran out , holding up for Little and falling short for Jaka. The table waited a few minutes for Jaka to count down his chip stack (98,000), only to find that Little (98,400) had him covered by just 400 in chips. The pile of chips doubled up Little to right around 195,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Little |
195,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Faraz Jaka | Eliminado | |
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We didn't see how all the money got in but Jason Koon's had been cracked by Dan Kelly's after the board ran out .
We did see Dan Kelly raking in the massive pot and adding the chips to his stack though. By cashing in this event Kelly is making yet another deep run at this year's World Series of Poker after having already cashed in five events and making two final tables.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Dan Kelly |
165,000
71,000
|
71,000 |