Tom Dwan finally showed up to play a hand in this event. The first hand after dinner break his unmanned stack was on the button. He had been blinded down to around 4,000 in chips as he got to his stack he took what Eric Baldwin described as a runner's stance.
He moved all in on the button was called by the player on his right.
Dwan:
Other Player:
The board ran and Dwan bolted from the Pavilion Room before the dealer even finished spreading the deck. He's currently eighth in chips in the $5,000 PLO 6 Max event and we believe he's going to play in the $10,000 HORSE Championship.
We picked up the action on the flop as the dealer spread out . Out of position, Eric Baldwin checked to the player on the button. He bet 2,700 into a pot of slightly more than that, and Baldwin check-raised all in for 14,250. The call came instantly as the unknown player had flopped top two with . Baldwin rolled over for the big draw.
The turn was just what Baldwin was looking for, filling in his flush and leaving his opponent dead to a full house. The river was the wrong board pair, though, and Baldwin has doubled up to 33,000.
We've just received the prize pool, and that's our cue to find out how many players are left. We were a bit surprised when we did a table count to find 88 tables left in play for 792 players. At most. That means we've lost nearly 1,000 players over the last six hours. Or between two and three players per minute for the last six and a half hours.
The numbers are in and there are 1,734 entrants for this event. They have created a prizepool of $3,944,850 paying out 171 players, with first place earning $749,610. Just making the final table will be worth $53,137 and a min cash is worth $5,207.
In middle position, Jeff Sluzinzki opened to 600. Action came around to the button where a player we don't recognize three-bet to 1,500. In the small blind was Melanie Weisner, and we definitely recognize her. She made another raise, sliding out 3,450 total. Sluzinski studied for a moment before shoving all in over the top, and the monkey in the middle quickly folded.
Weisner spent some time considering, counting down the 11,525 chips she had left. Eventually, she uncapped her cards and flicked them into the muck with one finger. "I was calling him," she said about the other player in the hand. "One time?" she asked for the show. Sluzinski obliged her by flashing the that he'd five-bet with. Weisner said she had two sixes.