Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 200
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 200
...So good thing it's only for 15 minutes.
207 players remain, and they'll all be back soon.
William Thorson is down after getting all-in with against Masa Kagawa's which spiked a queen on the flop to bust the Swede.
Felipe Ramos had a pretty bad day yesterday, grinding through with around 10,000 all day which somehow turned into almost 40,000 by bagging up time, still well below average.
He had a good day today, though, increasing that 40k to almost 200k at one point.
And now he's out.
We didn't catch the hand ourselves, but we understand that the general gist of it was jacks into queens, with a queen on the flop for good measure.
GG, Mr. Ramos.
Barry Greenstein has been relieved of the rest of his short stack. We were too late to see when the money went in (it could have been preflop or on the flop), but whenever it was, Greenstein was in bad shape with against his opponent's .
The board ran , and that's all she wrote for Barry G. He's out short of the money, and his opponent gets a shiny new copy of his book with some scribbling in the front cover.
Arnaud Mattern really likes the ladies, and he'll be liking them a whole lot more after his dispatched after an board.
"Aaahh, noooo!" said his opponent upon seeing the river had filled the Team PokerStars Pro's straight.
Arnaud indeed.
We didn't see the action, but we're guessing that JP Kelly opened from the cutoff and John Dolan shoved for his last 14,000 from the small blind. Either way, they were soon on their backs, and Dolan was soon up to a still rather precarious 30,000 while Kelly dropped to 65,000.
Kelly:
Dolan:
Board:
Phil Ivey has dropped a few chips, down to 85,000 or so but the number of TV cameras around him suggested him being involved in a big pot when it was nothing of the sort. Ivey was holding against a short stack's and the worlds' most reluctant TV poker star held on a board.
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott is out after his failed to spike against pocket jacks on a board.
We have a monster stack. An uber-mega-ultra-stack.
The stack consists of nearly 480,000 in chips, and its owner is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps he ran out to tell his family the good news. Or perhaps he's decided that he can now afford to go have a nap or go see a movie or something.
Should he reappear today (and he's left his headphones, so he's probably coming back), we'll let you know who our chip leader is.