We only arrived on the river of a board and saw 7,000 chips in front of Antonio Bonilla. After some consideration, Corey Emery tossed in a 1k chip to announce the call and Bonilla showed . "Oh wow," he said when Emery turned over and as a result was overtaken in chip count by the opponent.
"Sherwin" just defended his small blind against an under-the-gun raise and then flopped the nuts on . The initial raiser wouldn't want to lay down and lost 7,275 chips versus after two blanks on turn and river.
Only 144 players remain and we are taking heavy steps towards the money, which will come at 90 left.
Josh Harding opened the betting and when faced with a raise he shoved all in. His opponent asked for a count and after some delay and help from the players at the table the dealer declared the count was around 13,000. His opponent made the call asking if Harding had flopped a set of sixes.
Harding hadn’t flopped a set but his was ahead of the of his opponent.
The turn and river stayed safe and a big mound of chips was pushed Harding’s way.
Matthew Pitt, UK PokerNews Editor, WSOP blogger and self-styled short-stack ninja is out.
As he so eloquently put it, “Ace king into nines.” He couldn’t improve and his tournament was over.
However he did win $100 in the PokerNews last longer bet and is now off to sink a couple of beers and watch a few episodes of The Sopranos. He seemed happy enough.
From under the gun, a short stack moved all in for what looked like eight big blinds. One seat over, Ray Kluever made the call and all other players folded. It was for the shortie and for Kluever. The board ran out safely for the big stack and he joins the top stacks at the moment.
Women are always expensive and so are pocket queens at poker. James Lambert was fortunate to crack the queens of an opponent with the on the board and double up for 6,500.
Only one minute later, Eric Monson took care of a short stack with versus . After the board, he increased his stack to 30,000 in chips.
Two fairly even stacks were all in preflop with Andrew Legg tabling versus his opponents .
The cards ran out with Legg calling for the straight flush on the flop. The turned nut flush was good enough and his upset opponent pushed all the chips in a heap towards Legg.
Two players had got to the turn of a board reading . One player shoved and Jay Graunstadt sighed and worried about the board pairing. He made the call though and flipped over , relieved to see the of his opponent. The river card was the and Graunstadt took all of his opponent’s chips.
board and saw 7,000 chips in front of Antonio Bonilla. After some consideration, Corey Emery tossed in a 1k chip to announce the call and Bonilla showed 
. "Oh wow," he said when Emery turned over 
and as a result was overtaken in chip count by the opponent.
. The initial raiser wouldn't want to lay down 
and lost 7,275 chips versus 
after two blanks on turn and river.
and two players went to war.
of his opponent.
stayed safe and a big mound of chips was pushed Harding’s way.
for the shortie and 
for Kluever. The 
board, he increased his stack to 30,000 in chips.
, relieved to see the 
and Graunstadt took all of his opponent’s chips.