Bryn Kenney has been grinding hard with a stack of between 50-70,000 chips for the bulk of the day, and he's finally found his double. It came at the hands of Sam El Sayed who opened the pot in question to 6,500 under the gun. Kenney three-bet shoved for 60,000 exactly, and El Sayed quickly called with his covering stack. It was a flip.
Showdown
El Sayed:
Kenney:
The flop was just fine for Kenney, and he nodded in approval when the landed on fourth street. That gave him an unbeatable set, and the river was unimportant.
It's pretty impressive what we're doing here. Four levels into this day, we've already dropped half our starting field as just 207 players remain. The average stack is right around 50 big blinds. With two more levels still to play, we may only have around 120 players left by the end of the night.
We're four levels into Day 2, and we've reached the big break. This one will last 30 minutes, enough time for the players to find something to eat, drink, smoke, or what have you.
We'll be back right around 6:40 P.M. local time to play out the last two levels.
We walked up to another shove, joining a heads-up pot between Marvin Rettenmaier and Javier Cacho. The flop was already out on board, and there was a bet of 32,600 chips out in front of Rettenmaier's stack. Cacho had shoved for about 106,100 total, and Rettenmaier spent a long while considering before quietly announcing the call.
Showdown
Rettenmaier:
Cacho:
Cacho needed the hearts or some kind of runner-runner combination to come in to stay alive, but he'd end up bricking out. The turn and river were essentially blanks, and Rettemaier's full house earns him the big pot. When the chips were counted down, the German had 113,500, just enough to cover his opponent, and Cacho has been sent off here near the end of the level.
We only saw one action during this hand, a fold, but it was noteworthy enough to tell you about it.
When we walked up to the table, there was a flop out on board, and the pot was heads up. There was about 65,000 piled in the middle of the table already, and Jefri Islam had 20,500 chips out in front of his betting line. In position, Guillaume Darcout had responded by shoving two tall stacks of yellow chips forward, his 200,000 enough to cover Islam.
It was a few long minutes of agonizing tank time for Islam, and he eventually decided to cut his losses and surrender. "Bad fold?" he asked almost immediately.
"I don't know what you had," Darcourt said. "I could have jack-ten..."
He's not telling what he had, so we'll just tell you how many chips he has -- 480,000 of them, good for the chip lead by a few thousand.
Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck has been eliminated from the feature table by the very active Mario Adinolfi.
According to our source (James Hartigan), the Italian is involved in 80-90% of the pots. This is probably what caused him to drop 100,00 chips. He's back up to 465,000 though when his ace-three got there against Wahlbeck's pocket nines to eliminate the Finn.
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flop was just fine for Kenney, and he nodded in approval when the 
landed on fourth street. That gave him an unbeatable set, and the river 
was unimportant.
and river 
were essentially blanks, and Rettemaier's full house earns him the big pot. When the chips were counted down, the German had 113,500, just enough to cover his opponent, and Cacho has been sent off here near the end of the level.
flop out on board, and the pot was heads up. There was about 65,000 piled in the middle of the table already, and Jefri Islam had 20,500 chips out in front of his betting line. In position, Guillaume Darcout had responded by shoving two tall stacks of yellow chips forward, his 200,000 enough to cover Islam.
