While poker bloggers and poker players generally occupy different spheres during the course of a tournament, the bathroom break allows a chance for everyone to meet on equal ground.
While waiting in line, we found ourselves standing next to Young Phan, who recounted his recent score with pocket aces against pocket tens. Phan remembered us asking for his name earlier in the tournament and reminded this blogger that he had been playing for 21 years and that "we should know who he his by now."
The professional tournament grinder, who has 29 WSOP cashes to his credit, was extremely polite and smiled the whole time as he chided us for forgetting his name, but one thing is sure, if he keeps knocking players out and building his stack at the rate he is going, soon everybody will know exactly who Young Phan is.
Jon Turner raised in middle position to 4,200 and was met with a re-raise to 15,000 by Dan Shak in the small blind. Turner made the call and the flop rolled out . Shak instantly moved all in and Turner snap called just as quickly. The flop was certainly an action one as it gave Shak the nut flush draw with the but Turner middle set with . The turn was the which gave Turner a full house and left Shak drawing dead. Turner wished Shak “good luck in the Omaha” as we presume Shak was playing this along with the $10,000 Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better Championship as well. The pot grew Turner’s stack to 229,000.
Joseph Kuether raised to 4,200 from early position and the players folded around to John Eames on the button. Eames raised all-in, having Kuether out-chipped by a large margin. Kuether said, "You win," and mucked his hand.
Online poker legend Jordan "Jymaster11" Young, who is best known for his amazing back-to-back victories in the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl and the Full Tilt Sunday $750,000 Guarantee, just won a hand that no doubt reminded him of his days destroying Internet fields.
After raising to 4,600 from the button, Young watched his opponent three-bet for his entire stack of 21,500 chips. With little hesitation, Young made the call and showed down his . His stunned opponent dejectedly turned over his while the railbirds began discussing Young's amazing call.
The final board of was no help to Young's disillusioned opponent and "Jymaster11" built his stack to over 230,000 chips holding only queen-high.
We were just pointed toward a young lady with a boatload of chips by a couple of railbirds. One of them was her boyfriend, who gave us the scoop on his girl. Hailing from Cincinnati, Cross teaches English as a second language to adults. She is currently working toward her doctorate at Indiana University and has been playing poker for a couple of years. Although she has played in a couple of small World Poker Tour events, this is her first WSOP event and she is certainly making a splash so far.
According to a railbird, Cross had taken out six or seven people in a row at the table. At last count, she had approximately 270,000. We will definitely keep an eye on her from now on and suggest that you should as well.
Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis came over to sweat his good buddy and fellow Australian Daniel Neilson after he busted the six-handed.
"Hurry up and bust so we can go!" stated Karamalikis before adding, "How sick would it be if you got Jacks this hand?"
Once Neilson received his hand, he opened the pot to 4,400 and was called in one spot before Young Phan three-bet to 14,400 from the big blind.
Neilson pushed out a four-bet of 30,400 to force the player caught in the middle to fold only to have Phan move all in for 93,900. Neilson instantly called as the cards were placed on their backs.
Neilson:
Phan:
With Karamalikis' predication nearly coming true he kind of wished it did as the flop came to keep Phan in the lead.
The on the turn changed little, and when the landed on the river, Neilson was sent to the rail as Phan soared to 190,000 in chips.
After a player in middle position opened for 4,500 before the flop, the player to his left shoved all-in and Ricky Fohrenbach asked for a count before announcing that he was all-in as well. The initial bettor folded his face up and Fohrenbach tabled the . His opponent held and Fohrenbach went to the flop looking to avoid the two nines left in the deck.
The final board revealed and Fohrenbach's tens held up, doubling his stack to over 120,000 chips and placing him near the top of today's leaderboard.
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. Shak instantly moved all in and Turner snap called just as quickly. The flop was certainly an action one as it gave Shak the nut flush draw with the 
but Turner middle set with 
. The turn was the 
. His stunned opponent dejectedly turned over his 
while the railbirds began discussing Young's amazing call.
was no help to Young's disillusioned opponent and "Jymaster11" built his stack to over 230,000 chips holding only queen-high.
to keep Phan in the lead.
landed on the river, Neilson was sent to the rail as Phan soared to 190,000 in chips.
and Fohrenbach went to the flop looking to avoid the two nines left in the deck.
and Fohrenbach's tens held up, doubling his stack to over 120,000 chips and placing him near the top of today's leaderboard.