Donnie Peters
The Fossilman is building
Greg Raymer just took his pocket queens up against LAPT Costa Rica winner Amer Sulaiman's pocket jacks. The board ran out and Raymer had Sulaiman covered. The 2004 WSOP Main Event champion and Team PokerStars Pro member is now up to 175,000 chips.
Donnie Peters
Nate Wachtel moved all in for about 50,000 over the top of a raise to 5,500 from middle position. The player that raised made the call and held . Wachtel held an underpair and his suits were dominated as well with the .
The board ran out and Wachtel was eliminated from the tournament.
Donnie Peters
A player from early position raised to 6,000 and Fabrice Soulier called in middle position. A player in the cutoff seat called as well and then Lauren Kling squeezed in a reraise from the big blind to 25,000. The original raiser tanked before folding his hand after several minutes and then the two players folded behind him. Kling raked in the chips and moved up to 160,000.
USCphildo
It's been a rough level for Philip "USCphildo" Collins. First we caught up with the action on a board with about 25k in the pot. Collins bet 12,500, his opponent shoved, and Phildo quickly gave up his pocket kings. "Bad turn card," he said. Actually, might have been a very good turn card for him as his opponent flashed a pair of fives for the flopped set and turned boat.
A few hands later, Collins went heads up to a flop. His opponent fired out 7,100, and Phildo called. The turn was the , and Collins called a 19,500 bet. The came on the river, and Collins' opponent bet 41,000. Phildo found another fold, leaving himself with around 125,000.
Jon Turner posted to twitter earlier how much he loves his current table. His stack size reflects that. We passed by Turner's table just in time to see his 42,000-chip river value bet get paid off. On a board of , Turner showed down a full house, . His opponent never showed his hand choosing instead to ship the 42,000 in chips to Turner. He then put his hands on his head as if to say, "What was I thinking?"
Sorel Mizzi walked right into the dreaded five-bet shove. He opened the action with a raise to 5,500. Andy Seth, seated two seats to his left, re-raised to 13,200. A player behind Seth flatted the three-bet, folding everyone else and bringing the action back to Mizzi.
Mizzi was in the tank for more than a minute before putting in the fourth bet, a raise to 39,000. Seth responded by nonchalantly tossing a short stack of brown (10,000) chips into the pot, enough to put Mizzi all in. The player in between the two got the message and folded.
Mizzi, with another 80,000 behind the 39,000 he already had in the pot, called all in with . He had a live ace against Seth's , but the board blanked out to send Mizzi to the rail.
Andy Seth, the chip leader to start the day, once again appears to be the chip leader with approximately 515,000 chips in his stack.
Lucky Chewy
Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger opened to 5,500 and got one caller.
Flop: Lichtenberger bet 8,000, and his opponent called.
Turn: Chewy fired again, this time 16,500 and got another call.
River: Both players checked. Lichtenberger tabled and scooped the pot with his rivered four-flush. Fake it till you make it, baby. He was up to 235,000 after the hand.
The average stack right now is roughly 120,000 chips. But the way these things go, some tables will have significantly fewer than the average chips and some will have more. Take, for example, Table 64:
Dwyte Pilgrim - 270,000
James Mackey - 245,000
Nam Le - 420,000
Bob Lauria - 170,000
170,000 is a lot of chips at this stage of the tournament, but not when there are three massive stacks at your table. Luckily for Lauria and the other (shorter) stacks on Table 64, they're the next table to break.