Livello: 13
Limiti: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 0
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Livello: 13
Limiti: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 0
The players are now on their first 20-minute break of the day.
The action here in the Amazon Room is moving at lightning speed, with the field now having been reduced to just 85 players in under two hours. And you thought Limit Hold'em was a slow game!
Listed below are the latest editions into the 2011 WSOP Event #6 obiturary list:
Jason Helder
Marc Levin
Daniel Yang
James Meek
Jason Seguin
Donald Matusow
Mark Ellis
Laura Lesmerises
Don Rubenstein
Nicholas Blakiston
Justin Truesdell
Aces to aces, bust to bust.
Daniel Idema came into Day 2 of this event with less than 15,000 in chips, but he's now holding more than four times that much and has taken even more change off Leo Torosyan.
The action folded around to Torosyan who raised to 78,000 befor the flop; Idema was the only caller in the big blind and so it was heads-up to a flop of . Torosyan checked-called Idema after the flop and on the turn of the , then checked again when the appeared on the river.
Idema fired again, but this time Torosyan leaned back in his chair and heaved a sigh of relief before tapping the table and throwing his hand away. Torosyan has now slipped to 23,000 in chips, while Idema is cruising along with 78,000!
Chris Podlewski has just been sent to the rail after moving the last of his money into the middle preflop with , only to run into John Monnette's .
The board ran out , and Monette's kicker was best, sending Podlewski to the rail and moving Monette back up to 35,000 in chips.
On a flop of , Benjamin Scholl tossed out a bet and was raised by Dutch Boyd from the button. Scholl called and the came down on the turn. Scholl checked to Boyd this time, who threw out a bet which was called by Scholl. The action went check-bet-call one final time when the fell on the river and Boyd tabled , causing Scholl to send his cards sailing into the muck.
We've also spotted our first player to cross the 100,000 chip mark, with Sean Nguyen currently sitting with around 103,000 in chips! Bam!
The impressively-named Tynen Sammatarohutchins (87 points with a triple word score in Scrabble) has just copped a brutal beat to end his tournament life, at the hands of Timothy Finne, who is now on 43,000.
The money was all-in on a board that read ; Sammatarohutchins had moved the last of his money in holding , but Finne had managed to jag a straight on the turn with his . Ouch!
We can also report that Tom Schneider has been eliminated, joining Marty Roggentein, Shunjiro Uchida, Damien Leforbes and Andre Pagnillo on the rail.
Timothy Finne cracked the aces of Marty Roggentien when he picked up pocket queens.
Roggentien was all in pre flop when the flop came up giving him a set of aces and well ahead of Finne's queens. The turn came , and the river , giving Finne runner, runner for the straight.
Finne now sits with a healthy stack of 51,000 chips in front of him.
With the limits at 1,200/2,400, Jennifer Harman stuck 2,400 of her last 2,500 in the pot from early position. She was called by the small blind, and Michael Moore in the big blind. No, not the documentary film maker, but rather a native of Agar, South Dakota.
The flop fell and everyone threw in a 100 chip to officially put Harman all in. The turn came and it went check-check. When the fell on the turn, the small blind checked to Moore who bet and caused the small blind to fold. Moore flipped over and caused Jennifer Harman to muck her cards and gather her belongings.
"Maybe next time" said Moore to Harman.
"Next time, what?" replied Harman with a smile. "I knock you out? No that’s okay. I’m looking for first in the main event and you come in second, how about that?" Both players shared a parting smile and Harman began her walk toward the rail.
Dustin Graves has taken a hit to his stack and has slipped to 15,000 in chips after losing a sizeable pot to John Monnette.
Monnette raised from early position before the flop and the action folded around to Graves who called from the big blind, before both players checked their option on the flop of .
Graves then proceeded to check-call Monnette on both the turn of the and the river , only to muck after Monnette tabled for Broadway.
Monette is well on his way to the mon-ay, now sitting on a stack worth 40,000.