Dennis Premmanee pushed all in for 232,000 on the turn with the board reading . JC Tran thought for a bit and made the call with Eddie Blumenthal behind him, who folded immediately.
Premmanee:
Tran:
Tran was ahead, but he was up against two overs, a flush draw and a gutshot. The river was an , a brick for Premmanee's draw, and Tran, who had less than 10 big blinds at one point yesterday, now has a more than healthy stack.
Cary Marshall bet 38,000 after the flop in a blind versus blind battle with Brett Richey. Richey jammed his stack of 377,000, and Marshall began thinking. After a couple of minutes, he announced a call.
Marshall:
Richey:
Richey was ahead with two pair, but he needed to dodge clubs. No such sweat was needed, however, as the filled Richey on the turn. Marshall completed his worthless draw with the river, but Richey was the one dragging the pot.
After returning from dinner with 446,000, Australian Jackie Glazier has gone on a run that firstly saw her flop the nut flush to leave her opponent drawing dead before furthering her stack up the leaderboard to now sit with 1,310,000.
Glazier - who is one of Australia's best tournament players - has had plenty of success here at the WSOP with two Main Event cashes (427th in 2010 and 284th in 2012) and a 2nd place last year in Event #41: $3,000 No Limit Holdem. And with a solid stack here already, another deep run can be expected.
Level 18 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event is in the rearview mirror, and the remaining 334 players are now on a 90-minute dinner break.
In the last two hours, we said farewell to the legendary 10-time WSOP bracelet winner and two-time Main Event champion Doyle Brunson. Brunson exited the Amazon Room to round of applause that slowly filled each corner from the Mothership to the Orange Section, and all the way to Purple. Texas Dolly gave an appreciative wave to the remaining players and the fans, then took to Twitter to tweet one simple word:
From under the gun + 1, Jared Woodin moved all in for his last 110,000 chips. Action folded all the way to Yevgeniy Timoshenko who was in the big blind. He didn't waste any time calling.
Timoshenko:
Woodin: .
The board ran out giving no help to Woodin on any street and no sweat to Timoshenko either. With that pot he moved over the 1 million chip mark.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko opened the pot from the hijack seat with a raise to 17,000. Vimy Ha flatted from the big blind.
The flop came down and Ha led out with a bet of 13,000. Timoshenko called.
The turn card was the and here's where things got crazy. Ha led again with a bet of 23,000. Timoshenko took his time to cut out a raise to 65,000. Action was back on Ha and he put in a reraise to 130,000. Timoshenko thought for about a minute and a half before putting in the chips for a call.
The river fell the and Ha put out a bet of 200,000. Timoshenko went deep into the tank. He cut out two stacks of 20 T5,000 orange chips and put them in front of him. He motioned like he was going to put them in the pot, took his hands off, then he put his hands back and pushed the chips out for a call.
Ha showed for king high, but Timoshenko had made the right call with for a pair of tens with the pair of fives on the board. With that, the giant pot was pushed to Timoshenko and he moved over to 900,000 in chips.
Four players saw a flop of at Table 453. The first two players checked, and John Scaife bet 28,000. Josh Pollock made the call, and Andrea Carini made it 111,000. After the squeezed player folded, Scaife folded as well. Pollock asked the dealer to pull in the calls, and he announced all in after a minute of thought. Carini quickly called.
Carini:
Pollock:
Both had flush draws, but Carini was in bad shape with an inferior high card. The turn was a , keeping him alive if he could pair up on the river. A hit the board though, and Pollock, who claimed a bracelet earlier this summer in a PLO event, has announced himself as a contender with well over a million in chips.
From early position Matt Affleck moved all in for 120,000 only to have Samuel Clements move all-in over the top next to act for 195,000.
Affleck:
Clements:
With Affleck racing for his tournament life, the board wouldn't connect with the Seattle, Washington native as he would be forced to exit the Main Event shy of bettering his 15th and 80th place finishes back in 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Tim Ulrich raised to 16,000 in early position and Sergei Stazhkov called from the hijack. Doyle Brunson three-bet to 86,000 on the button, forcing folds from the blinds and from Ulrich. After a few moments Stazhkov re-raised all in, resulting in Brunson calling all in for 204,000.
Stazhkov:
Brunson:
The flop was no help to Brunson, nor was the turn. With only three outs, the two-time Main Event champion and 10-time bracelet winner was unable to catch a king as the river ended Brunson's impressive run.
Brunson received not one, but two rousing ovations from the entire Amazon Room as he graciously made his exit.
Nicholas E. Blumenthal raised in early position, Aditya Agarwal three-bet to 42,000 in the cutoff, and the action folded back to Blumenthal, who four-bet to 84,000. Agarwal returned to the tank.
"One thirty-five," he finally announced, pushing forward a stack of orange T5,000 chips.
It was Blumenthal's turn to tank, and after 90 seconds or so he decided to call, risking a third of his stack. The flop fell , Blumenthal checked, and Agarwal fired out 105,000. Blumenthal moved all in for 276,000, and Agarwal called.
Blumenthal:
Agarwal:
There was a break in the action to allow the ESPN cameras to get in position, and when they were ready, the dealer burned and turned the . Blumenthal shot back in his chair and threw his hands on his head, but he was far from drawing dead - any seven, six, three, or eight would keep him alive.
The completed the board, giving Blumenthal a straight, and once again he threw his hands on his head.
"Jeeeeeeeeeeeez," he groaned at the dealer.
Blumenthal doubled to 850,000 chips, while Agarwal fell to 805,000.