Kenny Tran checked to "All-American" Dave Swanson on a flop of , and he tossed out 3,200. Tran check-raised to 9,200, Swanson quickly called, and the turn was the .
Silently, Tran plopped a stack of chips in front of him, moving all in for effectively 25,525. Swanson went into the tank, and when he emerged he committed the remainder of his stack.
Tran:
Swanson:
Swanson was a 70% favorite to double through, but the spiked onto the felt to give Tran a flush.
For a brief moment, Swanson hung his head. After a second or two he collected himself, gathered his things, and exited the Amazon Room.
Two players, including Scott Standridge, checked to Phil Laak on a board of , and he moved all in for 25,000 into a pot of around 6,000. The first player folded, then Standridge tank-called all-in for 21,675.
Laak rolled over for an open-ended straight draw, and Standridge was ahead with for a pair of aces. The on the river gave Laak a meaningless pair of eights, and he was reduced to 4,700 chips.
Trishelle Cannatella has been knocked out from the Main Event and Andrea Dato was kind enough to share her elimination hand with us.
Cannatella called a raise before the flop after which the big blind called as well. The flop brought out with two clubs and the action was checked to the initial raiser who bet. Cannatella check-raise all in for about 6,500 and was called by .
Cannatella tabled for bottom two pair but the turn, a club, put her in dire need of making a full house. The river did no such thing and Cannatella was knocked out.
The remaining players are heading on a 20-minute break.
Following the resumption of play after dinner break, the tone of the level would be eliminations with "All American" Dave Swanson being eliminated by Kenny Tran. Swanson called all-in holding on a board and was up against Tran's . The river landed the and Swanson was headed to the rail.
Jean-Robert Bellande entered late and exited early as Mustapha Kanit had his aces cracked before being eliminated shortly after as Trishelle Cannatella, Blake Bohn, Jeff Gross, Phil Laak and David Chiu all found themselves on the rail also.
However level four would really belong to only one player; Martin Jacobson. Jacobson began the day see-sawing up and down, but this level saw him win a pot holding against on a before scooping another pot with a bet on the turn to push his stack upwards of 120,000. At-the-time chip leader Jon Broderick then sat on Jacobson's right, but after he lost a pot to John Monnette, Jacobson took the top spot on the leaderboard and ended the level as chip leader with 122,800. Sitting directly behind the Swede include Ezzie (116,250), Broderick (103,600), DiVella (99,350), and two-time WSOP Main Event Champion Johnny Chan (88,000).
The big news that also got announced in the closing few minutes of the level were that a total of 771 players entered Day 1a to be substantially lower then the 943 that took a seat in last year's Day 1a.
There was an open to 900 and Duncan McLellan raised it to 1,900. Mukul Pahuja was on the button and made it 5,300. The original raiser got out of the way and McLellan stuck in a five-bet to 16,900.
Pahuja stared McLellan down and made the call. The flop was and McLellan bet 20,400. More intense staring from Pahuja before he made the call. The turn card was the and now McLellan checked. Pahuja bet 38,000 and stared hard again.
McLellan had a big decision to make as the turn bet was around half of his remaining stack. He mulled it over for several minutes before saying he had the best hand but made the fold.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko to his right asked him if he folded aces but McLellan said he had queens.
Martin Jacobson raised to 900 in early position, Cory Zeidman three-bet to 3,100 on the button, and a player cold-called out of the big bling.
"How much do you have behind?" Jacobson asked Zeidman.
"Around twenty," Zeidman told the Swede. "Not enough to put a dent in your stack."
Jacobson made the call, and the flop fell . The action checked to Zeidman, he continued for 6,100, the player in the big blind folded, and Jacobson lazily tossed out a handful of orange T5,000 chips, setting Zeidman all in.
Zeidman let out a long sigh.
"Nice bet," he said after a two-minute tank, folding his hand.
Jacobson silently slid his own cards into the muck, and dragged the pot.
Chad Power, chip leader after the second level of the day, has just been knocked out by Trevor Reardon. When we arrived on the scene another player had taken Power's seat and Cliff Goldkind was kind enough to explain to us what happened.
"He lost a huge pot where he got it all in with a straight against a player with a turned straight," Goldkind said. Power's opponent rivered quad aces and doubled up to around 75,000 chips. That man was Trevor Reardon from England and he's now sitting on a comfortable stack.
A little while later Power ended up all in with against another player's and the board brought him no help.
Aaron Wilt was one of the big stacks already here on Day 1a of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event, but his day just got a bit better. Wilt was just involved in a pot of around 140,000 that saw him vault up to 166,500 in chips.
Picking up the action on the flop, Wilt had check-raised his opponent's bet to 19,000, only to have the player come back with a reraise to 32,000. After a minute of thought, Wilt moved all in. His opponent tanked for a little bit, then called it off for around 65,000 total.
Wilt tabled the for bottom set of fives, and his opponent rolled over the .
The turn was the , and the river was the . Wilt's set of fives stayed the best hand, and he eliminated his opponent while shooting up and into the chip lead.
After the player in the cutoff seat raised to 1,200, Martin Jacobson reraised to 4,200 from the small blind. A woman in the big blind then reraised to 10,500, and action folded back to Jacobson. He thought for a bit, then moved all in. With about 17,000 behind, the lady called with the to put herself at risk. Jacobson had the .
The flop came down , and Jacobson stayed in the lead. The turn was the and gave Jacobson a straight, leaving the woman needing one of the remaining two tens in the deck to stay alive.
The river card paired the board with the , and Jacobson had made a full house to win the pot. He moved up over 160,000 as there remained about 35 minutes left in the day.
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, and he tossed out 3,200. Tran check-raised to 9,200, Swanson quickly called, and the turn was the 
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spiked onto the felt to give Tran a flush.
, and he moved all in for 25,000 into a pot of around 6,000. The first player folded, then Standridge tank-called all-in for 21,675.
for an open-ended straight draw, and Standridge was ahead with 
with two clubs and the action was checked to the initial raiser who bet. Cannatella check-raise all in for about 6,500 and was called by 
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against 
on a 
before scooping another pot with a bet on the turn to push his stack upwards of 120,000. At-the-time chip leader Jon Broderick then sat on Jacobson's right, but after he lost a pot to John Monnette, Jacobson took the top spot on the leaderboard and ended the level as chip leader with 122,800. Sitting directly behind the Swede include Ezzie (116,250), Broderick (103,600), DiVella (99,350), and two-time WSOP Main Event Champion Johnny Chan (88,000).
and McLellan bet 20,400. More intense staring from Pahuja before he made the call. The turn card was the 
and now McLellan checked. Pahuja bet 38,000 and stared hard again.
against another player's 
and the board brought him no help.
flop, Wilt had check-raised his opponent's bet to 19,000, only to have the player come back with a reraise to 32,000. After a minute of thought, Wilt moved all in. His opponent tanked for a little bit, then called it off for around 65,000 total.
for bottom set of fives, and his opponent rolled over the 
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