Three players had put in 6,000, the small blind Louis Bruning then called and Lauri Pesonen in the big blind declared that he was looking for a “nitty” hand to fold. It looked like he couldn’t find it as he put in the extra 3,000 to call and they went five way to the flop of .
Bruning immediately moved all in from the small blind and Pesonen made the call. Seat one asked for a count but folded.
Bruning showed . “Oh you’re got a big draw again.” Pesonen said turning over the .
The turn and river saw Bruning eliminated and Pesonen gather some much needed chips.
Maurice Hawkins opened to 7,000 from the hijack and Jamie Kerstetter pushed all in right behind him for 81,000. Hawkins thought for a moment before making the call with . Kertstetter needed some help with and got it on the flop of , leaving Hawkins with just one out.
The board ran out and Kerstetter's ladies gave the lady a welcomed double up and left Hawkins short.
We didn't see the action, but Hawkins yelled "seat open" after the next hand and he headed to the payout desk.
We walked up to a board of and a lot of chips in the middle. Jamie Kerstetter was facing a bet of 48,000 from Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger.
Kerstetter thought for a moment before finally making the call and tabling . Lichtenberger mucked and Kerstetter is now one of the big stacks in the room.
Although the players are not allowed to have headphones in now that they have made the money they are allowed to bring laptops and other devices to the table if they wish to play online poker at WSOP.com
There is nothing to stop them playing as many games as they want but so far we have not witnessed any player taking advantage of that opportunity. In fact most of the tables are engaged in friendly chit chat while they enjoy concentrating on a real life game of cards, facing off over the felt.
There is though the occasional appearance of a phone to text friends or update twitter followers.
Players are busting quickly and the big stacks have been difficult to gather, but here are a couple. Robert Kuhn appears to be the chip leader and former November Niner Ylon Schwartz has quietly built an impressive stack as well.
Rich and Eric finally get together in Las Vegas to break down the latest Global Poker Index rankings, try to project where Vanessa Selbst will land after winning her third WSOP bracelet, and discuss the Fantasy Poker Manager game and the new GPI Magazine.
We didn't see the hand, but a previously short-stacked Jimmy Fricke has been eliminated.
At the same table, Andjelko Andrejevic called the all in bet of Hemanth Kumar for approximately 60,000 on the next hand. Andrejevic's held against the of Kumar.
Fricke and Kumar hit the rail on back-to-back hands and Andrejevic is over 300,000.
Dale Beaudoin was telling us earlier after he had knocked out two players in one hand with how bad he ran with that hand and he was now one for six with it.
We arrived at the table to see Beaudoin sitting with in front of him and all of Michael Sortino’s chips were in the middle with his in front of him.
The board read .
Sortino doubled up, while the ace king was now 1/7 for Beaudoin.
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. “Oh you’re got a big draw again.” Pesonen said turning over the 
.
and river 
saw Bruning eliminated and Pesonen gather some much needed chips.
and got it on the flop of 
, leaving Hawkins with just one out.
. Lichtenberger mucked and Kerstetter is now one of the big stacks in the room.
of Kumar.
how bad he ran with that hand and he was now one for six with it.
in front of him and all of Michael Sortino’s chips were in the middle with his 
in front of him.
