Dan Heimiller has taken a seat in the Tan section of the Amazon Room. Heimiller claimed his second World Series of Poker bracelet earlier this summer by topping a whopping 4,425 players to win the seniors' event. He has nearly $5 million in live tournament winnings to go with a colorful personality, so we'll definitely be keeping an eye on Heimiller today.
John Juanda start of this year's World Series of Poker Main Event couldn't have gone much better as he's already up to 67,000 chips.
We just watched Juanda stack up some newly won chips after the dealer had called out, "Seat open!"
Juanda has one cash so far at this year's World Series of Poker and the five-time bracelet winner looks to make some noise in this tournament at the end of his quiet summer.
Juanda won the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and finished 31st in the 2005 Main Event.
Jonathan Roy opened to 525 from middle position and received two callers. The flop ran out and Roy Continued for 900, losing just one of his opponents. The hit on the turn and Roy fired again, this time for 1,900, forcing a fold and took down the pot.
After the player in the cutoff seat opened with a raise to 600, Brian Kim reraised to 1,800 on the button. Play folded back to the original raiser, and he called to see the flop come down . The first player checked, then Kim bet 2,375. His opponent folded, and Kim won the pot to chip up to 35,000.
An early positioned player opened to 400 and found a call from John Hennigan in middle position. The cutoff three-bet to 1,225, prompting calls from both the original opener and Hennigan.
The flop came down and action checked back to the cutoff. He made it 2,075 to go, the original opener folded, and Hennigan called.
The dropped down on the turn and both players checked, allowing the to finish the board. Two more checks occurred and Hennigan rolled over . His opponent showed for the same hand, prompting the two to chop up the pot. Hennigan is now sitting on about 20,500.
Picking up the action after the turn of a board with roughly 16,000 in the pot, Alex Outhred check-called 7,500 from an opponent to see the river, which both players checked.
Outhred tabled , his opponent mucked and Outhred collected the pot.
With close to 4,000 in the pot and facing a 2,500 bet on a board, Matt Salbserg held up and slid them to the dealer. Salsberg is looking to add to what has already been a successful 2014 WSOP. He has cashed five times including a 10th place finish for $23,202 in Event #56 and a third place finish in Event #29 for $207,842.
The board showed when we noticed Davidi Kitai was trying to make up his mind about calling a 6,000-chip bet.
There was exactly 11,300 already in the pot and minutes went by while Kitai played with his chips, repositioned himself on his chair five times, and talked a bit to himself.
"I can sit here for six more hours like this," Kitai sighed before calling the clock on himself.
"Haha, that's so funny, 30 more seconds and I would've called it on you," Daniel Negreanu said.
A member of the floor staff was called over and in the final seconds of Kitai's minute he tossed in the call.
Kitai's opponent showed and the Belgian bracelet winner tabled to take down this pot.
"So much drama, calling in the final seconds!" Negreanu laughed, before adding that he thought it was a good call.
Kitai exhaled deeply and he's now back up over the starting stack.
When we last checked on Tuan Lam, he had a nice early stack, but things must have gone downhill in a hurry since he was down to his last 4,500 and all in on a flop of . A player had bet 900, and the small blind, who had checked, put in a call. The bettor folded, and Lam tabled for top pair. The small blind had just second pair with , but he picked up a straight draw on the turn. Another jack, the , meant Lam doubled up, though.