06-09-2007
Walking through the field we spotted 1983 World Champion Tom McEvoy taking down a pot. William Hill, who made the final table in the 1,500 Pot-Limit event, is playing today.
06-05-2007
Hand #80 - Jon Friedberg has the button in seat 7, Spegal raises under the gun to 105,000, Hill reraises from the big blind for 225,000, Spegal moves all in, and Hill calls with .
06-05-2007
Hand #66 - Thomas Savitsky has the button in seat 3, Hill raises from the cutoff to 90,000, and Savitsky calls all in from the button for 75,000. Hill shows , and Savitsky has . Savitsky needs to win this pot to stay alive.
06-05-2007
Hand #8 - Gavin Smith has the button in seat 9, Savitsky moves all in under the gun for 48,000, and Hill calls from the big blind with . Savitsky shows , and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
06-04-2007
In late position Gavin Smith raised to 33,000 and John MacCarthy committed the rest of his chips by raising to 42,000. William Hill called along with Smith, and the three saw a flop of .
06-04-2007
Gavin Smith raised to 33,000, William Hill raised to 108,000, and Smith called the additional 81,000. Smith had pocket Jacks, Hill had pocket Eights, and the K-Q-4-K-10 board gave Smith the pot.
06-04-2007
From the cutoff Nick Binger raised it to 42,000, only to have William Hill re-raise to 96,000 from the small blind. That set Binger all-in and he called with , but Hill had pocket Aces.
06-04-2007
In a battle of the blinds William Hill set Robert Gerstenzang all-in, and Robert called with . He had Hill's dominated, and the flop didn't seem too ominous.
06-04-2007
William Hill just boosted his chip stack to 280K after winning a huge pot with Robert Gerstenzang.
06-04-2007
After a flop of Jean-Robert Bellande and William Hill ended up getting all their chips in the middle. Bellande turned over for the nut flush draw as well as a gutshot, while Hill flopped two pair with .
06-04-2007
Robert Zipf got all his chips in with pocket Queens but was knocked out when William Hill caught an Ace on the flop.
06-04-2007
The aptly-named Rob Playfast, who has 156,500. William Hill is in second with 139,000, followed by Jean-Robert Bellande with 111,000.
06-04-2007
William Hill doesn't have 250,000 . . . at least not yet. He thinks he miscounted after winning a big pot and actually has 161,000 in front of him right now.
06-04-2007
William Hill, who has assembled a fortress of blue, black, and yellow chips worth 250,000. He's moved out to a huge lead, well ahead of Rob Playfast in second with just under 100,000.
06-04-2007
William "Highroller48" Hill just knocked out Todd Sisley to win a huge pot. On an A-6-10 board, Sisley committed all of his chips with A-Q, only to find Hill had flopped a set of tens.