Two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Oleksii Kovalchuk was just eliminated from the Main Event, meaning he will not win three bracelets in consecutive years. The Ukranian is excited about returning home, however:
We went to validate the information and sure enough caught Grafton in a hand with the board reading . Grafton led for 4,4200 and his opponent raised to 9,200. Grafton called and tabled and his opponent had one better with . While he may not have won this pot, he seems to be winning plenty of others as he sits with a near double starting stack.
We just discovered Jay Rosenkrantz, producer of the new poker film Bet Raise Fold, in the field and with him we also found a bunch of chips. We don't know where he got them from but Rosenkrantz did post a video and a tweet sharing his enthusiasm about his new found wealth:
Also in Pavilion White is American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer Nate Silver. Silver is most famously known for predicting the results of the last two presidential elections where in 2008 he only missed one state (Indiana) and in 2012 he hit all 50 states correctly. Silver doesn't have quite as many chips as Rosenkrantz but he is still above starting stack here in level two.
Shane Schleger has been eliminated from the Main Event after what Marvin Rettenmaier described as an "absurd" hand. We didn't catch the action, but thanks to Rettenmaier we know what happened.
A player in seat 1 opened to 300. In seat 3, Jeff Sarwer called the raise. Then, from the cutoff Shane Schleger called. The three players took to a flop of . On the flop, the player in seat one checked to Sarwer who put out a bet of 500. Schleger called before the player in seat one reraised to 1,500. Both players called.
The turn was an and from there the player in seat one led for 5,000. Next to act Sarwer made it 10,000. In the cutoff Schleger reraised all in for roughly 25,000. The player in seat one folded, but Sarwer called Schleger's all in for less, leading to a showdown.
Schleger:
Sarwer:
The river was a brick, but the player in seat one told the table that he folded for top set on the flop. Rettenmaier wasn't positive, but he did say that he was 95% sure the player was telling the truth, although his cards were never shown.
"Before the hand with Shane, I was getting kind of short," Sarwer explained. "I really needed that. "
After that hand Schleger got the rest of his money in with on a board against another player who had and he was eliminated from the tournament when the board bricked out. Here's what Shaniac had to say about his bust on twitter: