If you followed the $25K Fantasy Draft at the start of the 2014 World Series of Poker, you will recall that TeamMedia entered a team. One of its choices was Martin Jacobson, an extremely talented Swede who has some remarkable results to his name.
Sadly, Jacobson won't be adding Event #4 champion to his list of poker accomplishments as he has busted from the tournament short of the money places and won't be winning TeamMedia any points in this tournament.
Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke is a guy who loves poker. Equally adept at non-hold'em games as he is at "The Cadillac of Poker," Fricke has won almost $1.6 million from live poker tournaments.
Although there is a long way to go until the prize money is divvied up in this event — another 200 players need to bust — Fricke should progress through the bubble and into the money with relative ease as he has 26,000 chips in front of him.
Tim Reilly warned that he was going to be attempting to spin his short stack up and although it hasn't really happened as yet, he is trying.
The action folded to Reilly on the button and he put his 3,375 chips over the line and announced he was all-in. The small blind instantly mucked. The big blind dwelled for a few moments before sending his cards back to the dealer.
Sarah Tolagson has four WSOP cashes on her list of poker accomplishments and is in the hunt for cash number five. She doubled up a few moments ago and is now in a more comfortable position, but still can't afford to rest on her laurels.
Niall Farrell raised to 800 from middle position, one player folded before the next moved all-in for 6,550 in total. The action the passed around to Tolagson in the big blind and she called all-in for 5,525. Farrell didn't want to continue and he let his hand go.
Tolagson revealed the and discovered she was in a coinflip against her opponent's . An ace on the flop was music to Tolagson's ears, the turn being just as welcome and the river keeping her hand best and booosting her stack past the 12,000 mark with the average stack being 14,500.
Allen Kessler is up to an average sized stack, quite an achievement considering he left registering for this tournament to the last minute. Having busted out of the $10,000 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven event, Kessler was in no mood for going home and jumped into this $1k no-limit hold'em tournament. It looks like a great decision so far.
British grinder James Atkin, who is more akin to playing 20+ tables online, has around half of the average stack in front of him, while Ylon Schwartz and David Sklansky are at the lower end of the leader board.
Table 18 is now the home to the vocal Matt Marafioti, who is now sat next to the talented Jeff Gross.
and discovered she was in a coinflip against her opponent's 
. An ace on the 
flop was music to Tolagson's ears, the 
turn being just as welcome and the 
river keeping her hand best and booosting her stack past the 12,000 mark with the average stack being 14,500.
