The number of players listed on the tournament clock keeps rising and is up to 1,290 now. With that, the number of notables in the field is on the rise as well. Among those we spotted were:
It was checked to Jake Cody on a board that read and he bet 350. The under-the-gun player made the call and then checked dark. The river was the . Cody thought about it and checked as well. His opponent showed and it looked as though Cody pretty much expected that as he mucked his cards.
"No way you had the five there." said his opponent. Cody remained tight-lipped.
That pot may not have gone his way but the chips certainly seem to be flowing in his direction.
Some may say six-max is a younger man’s game. That the loose play and aggression required for success in this format is not for the over-50 crowd.
Former WPT Bay 101 Champion Steve Brecher would certainly disagree. He’s pushing 70 and still coming in with a hefty slew of raises here in the early going.
In a hand moments ago, he made it 175 from early position and got a call from a fellow gray-haired gentleman in the big blind. Brecher led out on the flop for 275, but the senior in the big blind fired right back, making it 575. Brecher laid it down.
Victor Ramdin’s tournament has come to a premature end. We didn’t see the action but a grinning Oleksandr Gnatenuo from the Ukraine pointed to himself when we asked what happened.
“Queens against jacks.” he said, and that was that.
The man they call Diesel took a little of that $259,211 in prize money and dropped it down on today’s $1,500 six-max and has his stack up to 7,000 already.
However, a little was shaved off the top when he tried to punish an early-position limper by making it 175 from the button. The limper came along for the ride and when the flop fell he shipped it for close to 2,700. Bolotin was forced to fold.
Doing a sweep of the room for updated chip counts we noticed that Barny Boatman was chipping up nicely when this hand occurred.
There was a raise to 125 and Boatman made it 350 on the button. The blinds folded and his opponent went all in for 1,700. Boatman practically beat him in the pot and turned over versus the of his opponent.
The flop was . Boatman said he didn’t want to pair his ace anymore. The turn card then gave his opponent spade flush outs, and the river was one of them.
Boatman was on a stack of nearly 8,000, but he’ll have to do it all over again as he’s back to right around the starting stack.