The Marathon Kicks Off at 11 a.m.
Last year they introduced a new tournament at the World Series of Poker, one featuring 100-minute levels and a $2,620 buy-in and needing five long days to complete. Today, it's time again for another long tourney journey as Event #24: $2,620 THE MARATHON No-Limit Hold'em kicks off at 11 a.m.
A total of 1,759 players entered the tournament last year generating a prize pool of over 4 million dollars. In the end, it was Venezuelan poker player Joseph Di Rosa Rojas who ended up winning $690,469 and the first gold bracelet for his home country by beating Alexander Lynskey.
The players are set to play six levels of 100 minutes today, with a 15-minute break after each level and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 4. Players start with 26,200 in chips and registration is open until the end of the second level on Day 2.
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. When the river came the 
, Konnikova made a pot-sized bet of 4,500. Her opponent asked for clarification on the bet size before giving himself a minute to think, then he made the call. 
for a full house and scooped the pot.
when newly registered Jennifer Tilly bet 1,500 from the cutoff and James Moore raised to 4,500 from the button. Truyen Nguyen was in the big blind and announced all in for around 16,000. 
didn't change the result as all three players chopped the pot.
had fallen before leading for 1,700 on the 
for two pair, and Ramdin mucked.
. After he his initial bet of 1,600, his opponent made it 5,000. Busquet sat on his decision before moving all in and got snap-called. 
and the button player continued for 1,800 when the action was checked to him. Only Konnikova called. 
, Konnikova put one single 5,000 chip into the middle, and the button went into the tank. It took a couple of minutes for him to act but he did make the call, and he allowed the dealer to muck his hand when Konnikova turned over 
and both players checked. Weissman check-called a bet of 5,700 on the 
river and this time Ramdin fired out 20,000. Weissman thought about it for a couple of minutes and he eventually called to see Ramdin holding