Nível: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Nível: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Patricia "Patty" Devine opened to 80,000 from the hijack and Brian Brunner shoved from the button for 460,000. The big blind contemplated his decision for about 90 seconds before folding. Devine then asked for a count, complained that the previous player in Brunner's seat had already got her today, and eventually made the call.
Brian Brunner:
Patricia Devine:
Devine shouted for low cards but the flop came to have Devine drawing to just one out.
Devine did not get her help as the and completed the board to give Brunner a flush and double him up.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Patricia Devine |
1,215,000
-720,000
|
-720,000 |
Brian Brunner |
1,010,000
575,000
|
575,000 |
Michael Kinney shoved his 295,000 from early position and the cutoff called.
Michael Kinney:
Cutoff:
Kinney was in a world of trouble but picked up four outs on the flop.
The table was floored when the gave Kinney the win with Broadway on the turn, leaving the cutoff with just under 300,000 chips.
The irrelevant completed the board.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Michael Kinney |
665,000
310,000
|
310,000 |
Yesterday, the PokerNews Cup returned with an $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Main Event at Golden Nugget Las Vegas. There are still two starting flights left on Saturday and Sunday to take a shot at the guaranteed seven-figure prize pool.
The PokerNews Cup is part of the Golden Nugget 14th Annual Grand Poker Series, which features 81 events and offers over $3 million in guaranteed prize money from May 31-July 3. The tournament, which runs June 24-28, will be live reported here on PokerNews, and there will also be a live-streamed feature table on Day 2 as well as final table action on Tuesday’s Day 3 finale.
The man responsible for making it happen, as well as giving away 100 seats to the tournament, was Director of Poker Operations Andy Rich, a longtime poker industry veteran. As part of PokerNews’ continuing Industry Insiders series, we caught up with Rich to learn more about the man making things happen in downtown Vegas’ last remaining poker room.
With around 275,000 already in the middle on a flop, Curt Kohlberg, from under the gun, put out a continuation bet of 110,000.
Edwin Chang, sitting to his left, reraised to 325,000. Miguel Capriles folded in late position.
Kohlberg went into the tank for about three minutes before folding what he claimed was an overpair.
Chang flipped over , showing that he had been trapping the whole time.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Edwin Chang |
1,300,000
555,000
|
555,000 |
Miguel Capriles |
875,000
470,000
|
470,000 |
Curt Kohlberg |
575,000
255,000
|
255,000 |
Randy Marker opened from the hijack to 75,000. The cutoff, Wilbern Hoffman, reraised to 275,000. The small blind made the call moving all in to do so. Marker got out of the way, and it was time for showdown. "I hope you have jacks," the small blind said as the pair tabled their hands.
Small blind:
Wilbern Hoffman:
"Oh, even worse," the small blind said upon seeing Hoffman's pocket fours. The small blind was behind, but seemed to catch a break on the flop, as the appeared in the window, but those hopes were quickly dashed as the full flop was spread out, giving Hoffman a set.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Randy Marker |
1,750,000
1,350,000
|
1,350,000 |
Wilbern Hoffman |
1,025,000
275,000
|
275,000 |
Carl Masters opened from the hijack for 70,000, before Day 1A chip leader James Kennedy jammed in the cutoff with 1,205,000 behind.
"You might want to stick around, might have a huge pot," Masters told PokerNews while action was moving back around to Kennedy.
"It is going to be a huge pot," Kennedy added, while already having his hand on his stack, prepared to push them in the middle and simply waiting for the action to get to him. Eventually it did, and he snap-called with the effective stack of 385,000.
James Kennedy:
Carl Masters:
The flip quickly tilted in Kennedy's favor as the appeared in the window on the flop. The turn and river completed the board and ensured the double up for Kennedy.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
James Kennedy |
830,000
445,000
|
445,000 |
|
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Carl Masters |
820,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Players are on their first 15-minute break of the day, with roughly a third of the Day 3 field having been eliminated in the first two levels of play.
Nível: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Allen Nielson | Eliminado | |
David White | Eliminado | |
Shelton Sykes | Eliminado | |
Scott Buller | Eliminado | |
David Ives | Eliminado | |
Touraj Tour | Eliminado | |
David Penna | Eliminado | |
Dieter Dechant | Eliminado | |
|
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Claude Leclair | Eliminado | |
Ted Morris | Eliminado | |
Matthew Davis | Eliminado | |
Michael Loynd | Eliminado | |
Mike Puskarich | Eliminado | |
John Lombardo | Eliminado | |
Clay Henry | Eliminado | |
Eli Gerloy | Eliminado | |
Shawn Rice | Eliminado | |
Paul Smith | Eliminado | |
David Levi | Eliminado | |
Richard Anthony | Eliminado | |
Everett Carlton | Eliminado | |
Howard Mann | Eliminado | |
Glenn Stout | Eliminado | |
James Roberts | Eliminado | |
Ronald Mossbarger | Eliminado |