There had been an opening raise to 2,000 when a short-stacked player shoved for his last 20,000 or so. In the big blind Noah Boeken reshoved, the original raiser got out of their way, an they were on their backs.
JP Kelly has sailed up to 110,000 after getting it in with the worst hand preflop in a three-way pot and getting there like the luckbox he is. Only kidding, although technically it is true.
Kelly had opened preflop with with the player to his left who he knew as a good high-stakes cash player flatting from a stack of 30,000. A short-stack who had been looking for a spot then pushed all-in for 13,000 and Kelly called, only to find the player to his left pushing for 17,000 more and Kelly now being forced to call this shove also. The short stack showed while the other player flipped but the flop was and Kelly flopped the nuts to eliminate both after two bricks on the turn and river.
Men Nguyen called a short stack's push on a flop. The shortie turned over for a flush draw, but Nguyen's held up through the turn and river to claim his opponent's tournament scalp and put his stack up to 65,000.
WSOPE finalist and possessor of an awesome Kentucky accent Brian Powell is up to 90,000 after flopping a set against the unfortunate Luca Cainelli. We're not sure when the chips went in but we suspect it was preflop, pr possibly on the flop.
Dominik Nitsche was all in before the flop for his last ~10,000 with , and he was dominating the of his caller and would-be knocker-out.
The board ran safe for the former LAPT champion, though, coming to double him right back to 20,000. That's still about 50,000 than he had the last time we looked at him, and he noticed us giving him a curious look.
"What, you're wondering where all my chips went?" he asked with a smile. "I'm not gonna tell you!" With that, he proceeded to tell us. "I split a 120K pot with aces against ace-jack," he relayed, "and then I went on tilt and bluffed off like 60K."
Fair enough. He back in contention now, though, with about 25 big blinds in front of him.
It's an ominious looking sight over on one of the middle tables as Phil Ivey has been steadily accquiring chips today. Not in a spectacular "one-massive-fell-swoop-type" pot but accumulating them consistently and rapidly.