Players are on their last break of the day. They will play two more 60-minute levels tonight.
Players are on their last break of the day. They will play two more 60-minute levels tonight.
Under the gun, Georgios Zisimpoulos fired 1,800 into the pot when the dealer rolled out a ![]()
![]()
flop. He received a call from a player on the button and a fold from the small blind.
Heads-up to the
turn, both players decided to check and saw the
hit the felt for free.
Zisimopoulos went for a blocking bet, making it 600. His opponent raised to what looked like 4,800 and Zisimopulos called within a second with ![]()
, besting his rivals ![]()
.
"How do I get you guys to fold?" the other player asked.
Bryn Kenney opened in late position with a raise to 1,200 and action folded to the small blind where Nam Le moved all in for a bit over 4,000 chips. Action folded back to Kenney and took a quick glance at Le's stack, then called.
Nam Le: ![]()
![]()
Bryn Kenney: ![]()
The board ran out ![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
and Le earned the double up plus the blinds and ante with his two pair.
Last year's runner-up Pete Chen was down to only 3,900 but while his situation is far from comfortable, he doesn't have his back pushed against the wall anymore.
Chen found ![]()
in the small blind and moved all-in over a raise to 1,800 from early position and a flat-call in the cutoff. The player who opened the action isolated with a 6,000 four-bet, forcing out the third player.
Chen found himself drawing live as he needed to beat the ![]()
and he did so on the ![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
board, hitting a queen on the turn and even improving to a flush on the river.
Nam Le raised to 1,400 in the cutoff and only a player in the big blind came along.
Le checked back the ![]()
![]()
flop and called when his opponent led 3,000 on the
turn.
The river was the
and the action was checked to Le who bet another 3,000. He was quickly called and turned up his ![]()
only to see his value-bet fail as his opponent flopped trips with ![]()
.
That hand saw Le drop to 4,400 but he open-shoved on the very next hand, and while big blind Scott Blumstein seemed interested, he eventually let it go.
Nível: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Jerry Wong opened under the gun and Galen Hall (middle position), Igor Yaroshevksyy (cutoff), and Kitty Kuo (big blind) all accepted his 1,300-chip offer.
The ![]()
![]()
flop was checked to Yaroshevskyy who fired 3,000. Only Wong called and they saw the
land on the turn. Wong checked once again but gave up after Yaroshevskyy barreled for 5,300.
Mikita Badziakouski opened with a raise to 1,200 from the cutoff and he was called by Jake Schindler on the button. The player in the big blind called as well, so it was three-way to a flop.
The flop was ![]()
![]()
and all three players checked. The turn was the
and action checked to Schindler who put out a bet of 3,000 this time. The big blind called while Badziakouski folded.
On the
river, Schindler led out for 7,500. The big blind tanked for a good while before just calling. Schindler showed his ![]()
for a straight, but the river gave the big blind a flush with his ![]()
, so he would take down the pot while Schindler was clipped to right around 43,100 chips.
While Kitty Kuo has been stacking giant piles on her table, Vojtech Ruzicka has been crushing the neighbouring one.
Ruzicka recently found himself in a preflop contest with ![]()
against an opponent who trailed with ![]()
. Ruzicka covered him by a ton as the other player had only about 20,000.
The board ran ![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
, giving Ruzicka a not-exactly-needed king-high flush. Ruzicka is now playing 140,000.