Ben Volpe opened to 26,000 from late position, and Jeff Sarwer three-bet shoved for almost 300,000 from the button. Volpe would fold, but not before Darryl Ronconi shoved all in himself from the big blind. "Well, I guess you woke up with a big one in the big blind," Sarwer lamented. Ronconi simply nodded as he pushed the rest of his chips forward, tower-by-tower.
Showdown
Sarwer:
Ronconi:
There's be no help for Sarwer on this board as it came out , and he waited to see if he'd been eliminated. The stacks were counted down, and Ronconi's 331,000 ended up being the covering stack, sending Sarwer to the payout desk in 31st place.
We only caught the tail end of the pot, hearing more of it than we saw. We heard Darryl Ronconi announce, "All in," and almost before the words were out of his mouth, Ben Volpe snap-called. Just a half-second later, Volpe spun away from the table and let out a big, "No!" as he took a lap around the carpet. When we walked up to the table, the board showed , and Volpe had out in front of him. Ronconi had the only hand better, showing down for the nut flush.
It's the biggest pot we've seen today, and it has not gone well for Volpe. When the stacks were counted down, he was covered, and he'll be our 30th-place finisher here today. For Ronconi, it's Christmas come early, and he'll stack up the biggest pile of about 1.05 million now.
After a long lull to start the day, the action has picked up to a torrid pace. We've dropped a half-dozen players in the last orbit or so, and Wesley Pantling was the latest victim, exiting in 29th place.
Isaac Baron opened to 26,000, and Vitaly Lunkin three-bet shoved for 220,000. It was about half of Baron's chips, but he made a good call with his ahead of Lunkin's .
Baron's call was rewarded as the dealer spread the board: . Trip aces will do it, and Lunkin has been eliminated in 28th place, good for the last of the $21,311 payouts. For Baron, the knockout boosts his stack up to 635,000 or so.
Our field has shrunken to 27, and they're racking up and redrawing as we speak. We'll be back to tell you how the tables look in a moment.
While we were still cobbling together the new table draw, both Barry Greenstein and Joe Patrick were relieved of their very short stacks, and we're already down to 25 players as the action continues to roll along briskly.
Garrett Adelstein got almost 300,000 into the middle before the flop with pocket tens, and he was flipping for his tournament life against Christian Kruel and his king-queen.
Kruel paired up, and Adelstein's pocket pair betrayed him, sealing his elimination in 25th place. Kruel is up around 700,000 now as the stacks start to become a bit polarized.
, and he waited to see if he'd been eliminated. The stacks were counted down, and Ronconi's 331,000 ended up being the covering stack, sending Sarwer to the payout desk in 31st place.
of Lauri Veronen.
flop but the turn 
, river 
put a straight on the board and split the pot. Young is happy, to say the least.
out in front of him. Ronconi had the only hand better, showing down 
for the nut flush.
ahead of Lunkin's 
.
. Trip aces will do it, and Lunkin has been eliminated in 28th place, good for the last of the $21,311 payouts. For Baron, the knockout boosts his stack up to 635,000 or so.
