Athanasios Polychronopoulos has been eliminated. He raised to 25,000, the cutoff called, then from the button Stephen Graner made it 71,000 to go. Polychronopoulos moved all in for 390,000 with and the tennis starlet Anna Kournikova was unable to win the flip versus as another jack showed up right in the window. The US boy was crippled after that hand and could not spin it up anymore.
We saw the turn and a short stack was all in with only to discover the bad news in person of Christopher Keller, who snapped him off with .
One hand later he three-bet to 55,000 on the button and the hijack called. On the flop, the hijack led for 60,000 and Keller raised to 125,000. The hijack folded with about 500,000 behind and in table chat, Keller said he had pocket kings before both headed into the break.
On Episode 81 of the Thinking Poker Podcast, Nate and Andrew discuss strategies for the World Series of Poker that will assist you both on and off of the felt, and they also break down a hand from Nitcast favorite Gareth Chantler and another from the Sunday Million.
John Moore opened to 24,000 and was reraised by the player in Seat 9 to 56,000. Moore didn't react right away as he sat there in thought. After close to a minute of deliberation he announced that he was all in. His opponent looked one more time at his cards and then called with for approximately 350,000. He would need to hit something, however, as Moore had .
The flop came to give Moore's opponent the nut flush draw. Moore was able to fade the draw and ace, however, as the turn came and the river was the , and Moore is up to 915,000.
There are still so many small denominations in play that the dealers take out some of the yellow T1000 stacks to facilitate the upcoming levels for their colleagues. We are now down to 89 players and only 80 away from an early night for us bloggers. Just kidding, this is gonna take a while. In the next few minutes we will collect some of the bigger and well known chip counts.
With 143,000 in chips in front of Bradley Anderson in what looked to be an apparent four-bet and an all-in wager in front of Jeff Sluzinski, the action was back on Anderson who would be at risk if he made the call. After a few moments of thought, Anderson made the call and turned over . He was in trouble as Sluzinski had .
"Come on jack, come on jack," Anderson begged as the dealer put out the flop. "Come on jack," Anderson said again as the turn was placed on the felt. The dealer burned a card and Anderson gave one last plea for a miracle. "Jack ball, jack ball."
Jack ball it was: The . "Whew," sighed Anderson. Sluzinski's reaction was understandably one of frustration. "Good call. Good read," he said to Anderson. "Thought you were making a move on me," Anderson replied.
With the board reading on fourth street, Gennady Shimelfarb checked out of the big blind. Maurice Hawkins did likewise in middle position, and a player in the hijack bet 110,000. Shimelfarb called and Hawkins folded. A hit the river and Shimelfarb thought for a minute before sliding forward all of his red T5000 chips: 275,000. The hijack quickly folded and Shimelfarb dragged the huge pot to pass the 1 million-mark.
and the tennis starlet Anna Kournikova was unable to win the flip versus 
turn and a short stack was all in with 
only to discover the bad news in person of Christopher Keller, who snapped him off with 
.
for approximately 350,000. He would need to hit something, however, as Moore had 
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to give Moore's opponent the nut flush draw. Moore was able to fade the draw and ace, however, as the turn came 
and the river was the 
, and Moore is up to 915,000.
. He was in trouble as Sluzinski had 
turn was placed on the felt. The dealer burned a card and Anderson gave one last plea for a miracle. "Jack ball, jack ball."
