Dennis Marcum opened for 40,000 from the cutoff and Jordan Young, in the big blind, asked how much Marcum had behind. Marcum replied that he had 80ish and Young put out a big stack of green 25,000 chips to put Marcum all in. Marcum called and the hands were talbed.
Showdown:
Marcum:
Young:
Board:
Marcum's two-pair doubled up his short stack to 260,000 and Young is still safe with around one million.
From late position Zachary Ray limped, as did Shoaib Makani, Sameer Aljanedi and Anton Brenner. The four players all checked the flop. The turn fell and Aljanedi moved all in for 124,000. Ray called and the others folded.
Ray:
Aljanedi:
The board finished and Aljanedi was eliminated as Ray moved up to 458,000.
We picked up the action on a flop that read ; Jordan Young opened for 33,000 from the cutoff and Anton Brenner called before Young check-called Brenner's bet of 80,000 on the turn of the .
Both players then checked the river of the and young tabled for two pair. Brenner kicked his hand into the muck.
Waseem Tarawneh has been the first player to hit the next pay-jump after moving the last of his money into the middle preflop with , but ran into the of Andrea Vezzani.
Neither hand was able to improve on the board of and Tarawneh was sent to the rail in 27th place, good for a $21,054 payday.
The action folded to Thomas White who raised to 60,000 preflop before Andrea Vezzani reraised all-in for 973,000. White snap-called, tabling but found himself flipping for his tournament life against Vezzani's .
The appeared in the window, but the and trailed to complete the flop giving Vezzani the set. The turn of the changed nothing and the came down on the river, filling Vezzani up and sending White on his way.
The other White in today's field, Kyle White, has just managed to double up against Casey Kelton as the action continues in Event #18 of the 2011 WSOP.
White moved his last 151,000 into the middle before the flop with , but he was off to the races against the of Kelton. Fortunately for White, the board didn't change the outcome of either hand, and his two pair was good to see him double up to more than 300,000.