Joey Capp opened to 600 from early position, and he found four calls including Alex Kamberis and Matt Stout.
Five ways, the dealer spread out , and Capp continued out with 2,000. That drew one fold from the next player, but Kamberis stuck in a raise to 5,400, and the action wasn't done yet. When it came to Stout next, he shoved in for about 27,000, folding the fifth player in the hand. Capp reshoved all in, and that got he and Stout heads up to showdown:
Capp:
Stout:
Stout was drawing dead to the , but it never came on the blank turn and river.
From what we understand, Stout convinced Capp to come here and play this event with him a couple days ago. Perhaps he wishes he hadn't as Stout now finds himself railing his buddy from afar.
Capp might be here for a while, too. He's got about 95,000 chips in front of him now.
A player in early-middle position opened with a raise to 750 and action folded a few spots over where another player three-bet to 2,250. Phil Collins was on the button and four-bet to an even 5,000. After the blinds folded, the original preflop raiser moved all in for 24,625. The next player folded and then Collins followed suit. His cold four-bet failed and Collins is back down to 23,500 in chips.
We walked up to the table to see a board of out in the middle of the table and Alexander Kravchenko deep in the tank. There was about 28,000 in the pot already, and Kravchenko's opponent had moved all in with his covering stack. Al Krav had about 15,000 left in front of him, and after some time, he made the call for the remainder of his chips.
It was a bad one. His opponent turned up for the flopped straight, and Kravchenko mucked and headed out the door.
With around 5,000 in the pot and a flop of , Joseph Cheong checked, his opponent in middle position bet 4,000, and Cheong check-raised all in for 15,225 more. His opponent thought long and hard before folding. Cheong is up to around 27,000.
A total of 263 players have officially made it here for Day 1a of The Big Event. With a huge tournament on the Sunday radar for most players in the online realms, we'd expect the Day 1b crowd to be a bit smaller than today's.
Chris DeMaci raised to 750 from middle position and received a call from the player in the big blind. Both players proceeded to check the flop, leading to the on the turn. The big blind checked, DeMaci bet 1,025, and the big blind folded. DeMaci, who had some success at the Bicycle Casino back in November when he finished second to Joe Tehan at the NAPT-L.A. stop, is up to an impressive 75,000.