Day 1d Goes on Dinner Break - Back in 75 Minutes
The final flight of the Big 50 is heading on dinner break; back at 20:15 local time.
The final flight of the Big 50 is heading on dinner break; back at 20:15 local time.
Daniel Rivier was in the midst of every poker player's dream as he was all in against two players, holding the .
One of his opponents, who had Rivier covered, held the . What was already a dire situation for the queens became worse when the shortest stack of the all ins revealed that he held , thus eliminating one of the outs for the ladies.
The board stayed clean for Rivier's aces when it ran out to give him the huge pot, while busting a player and leaving another with crumbs (who busted soon afterwards).
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Daniel Rivier
|
240,000 | 240,000 |
After quickly busting on her first buy in, Maria Ho has re-entered the Big 50 and has been seated at the same table as Mark Hodge who has a large stack of roughly 175,000
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Mark Hodge | 175,000 | 20,000 |
Maria Ho | 50,000 | 50,000 |
James Dempsey avoided the height of the queue by simply leaving when he saw it, playing golf, and coming back now. He's based in the Pavilion Room where he's busy chopping pots with ace-high.
On a board which had not generated a pot larger than 8,000 all the way through, he led out for 5,000, called by an opponent who tabled , while Dempsey showed down saying something about how he wanted a call with king high.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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James Dempsey
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Joel Thomas | 200,000 | 60,000 |
Neil Blumenfield | 110,000 | 45,000 |
Edward Kinnibrew
|
95,000 | -20,000 |
David Plisco | 90,000 | -10,000 |
Kenny Nguyen | 40,000 | 40,000 |
Carlos Avila
|
Eliminado | |
Maria Ho | Eliminado |
Nível: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Back at Melissa Smith’s table, Ian Matakis is maneuvering a 32,000 short stack around while his neighbors play some hefty pots. He got one shove through just before the previously reported hand, then opened the hand afterwards to 4,500. Boris Kolev, another late position opponent and big blind Smith made the call.
On the flop, Smith and Matakis checked and Kolev bet 12,500, called only by the late position player. The turn brought a second ace – . Kolev led for 18,000, called fast by his last remaining opponent. The river was the . Now Kolev paused for a moment, motionlessly contemplating his 52,000 remaining chips before throwing them in. His opponent snap-called, showing down while Kolev collected his double up with a full house having flopped a set of nines ().
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Boris Kolev
|
145,000 | 145,000 |
Ian Matakis
|
32,000 | -31,000 |
Lemarc Harrell found himself in deep trouble in a pre-flop all in situation, holding the up against his opponent's .
But it was not in the cards for Harrell's Big 50 to be done quite yet when he spiked a 10 on the flop as it came . The set would hold on when the turn was the and the river the All his opponent could do was shake his head and count out the 97,500 that he owned Harrell.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Lemarc Harrell | 195,000 | 195,000 |
Strictly speaking, the one chip in Melissa Smith’s possession was a newly-introduced white 50,000 chip, and she tossed it in under the gun announcing her raise as 6,000. Her neighbour (utg+1) promptly raised to 16,000 and was called. The heads up flop came down . Smith checked and her neighbour bet 15,000. She check-raised all in and received a quick call – and no wonder: Utg+1 had flopped top pair top kicker with while Smith tabled . The turn and the river bricked and suddenly the neighbours’ stacks were reversed.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Melissa Smith | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Just joining the Big 50 field after the break was Melanie Weisner. From the button she raised to 5,000 and received one caller from the small blind.
The flop was the . Both players checked.
The turn was the . The small blind checked to Weisner who bet 8,000 and she was met with a call.
The river came the . The small blind checked again and Wesiner put in a large bet of 35,000, which was enough to put her opponent all in. After a few moments of deliberation, he made the call and saw the bad news.
Wesiner turned over the which bested her opponents to bust him and to immediately give Wesiner a very nice boost to her stack.
Elsewhere in the Brazilian Room, Maria Ho joined the field.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Melanie Weisner | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Maria Ho | 50,000 | 50,000 |