Aaron Massey has been making some noise on the circuit this year. He has seven cashes since October, including a 3rd place finish in the WSOPC Southern Indiana Main Event for just over $48,000. Massey is easy to spot in a crowded field because he plays bigger and louder than his five and half foot frame would suggest.
Hand 1 - On the button he opened to 4,500 and the player in the big blind moved all in. He called holding and was up against . His opponent caught an ace on the flop and Massey lost the pot.
Hand 2 - Talking to the player he just doubled up, he described some of the hands he lost with the day before. "Oh well, I'm kind of bipolar," he said. He then folded preflop.
Hand 3 - Massey folded preflop.
Hand 4 - He folded preflop and recounted his stack for the second time inside five minutes.
Hand 5 - Massey peeked at his cards, thought for a minute and then folded. He pulled out his phone and checked his text messages.
Hand 6 - He folded preflop and talked to "Captain" Tom Franklin about securing suites at the Palm Beach Kennel Club for the next WSOP Circuit stop. He left the table and talked to his girlfriend and friends.
Hand 7 - He folded preflop out of order and apologized to the table. The blinds went up just in time for his big blind.
Hand 8 - From the big blind he counted up the blinds and antes out loud and then announced, "My number is 5.8, but I'll let you guess what that means. Wait, I'm the big blind so it's more like a 5.4." His friends on the rail questioned his math and he said, "Mind your business, I do the math around here." He folded to a 10,000 opening raised with the big blind at 2,400.
Hand 9 - He folded preflop to an early position player that moved all in.
After a rough start Dantonio Brown's tournament leading stack took a bunch of hits. He never quite relinquished the chiplead but he was within catching distance. He's worked his stack back up again and is in the neighborhood of 250,000 chips.
He picked up a few more chips in the small blind when he went to the flop with three other limpers. The board showed and Brown bet out 4,000. All but one player folded and the turn came . Brown bet 5,000 and his opponent called. The river fell and he fired out 14,000 and his opponent folded.
Action folded to an unknown player on the button and he put in a raise to 5,300. Chris Bigler was next to act in the small blind and wasted little time in getting all in for 25,300 total. The big blind folded and the button hit the tank. After thinking about it for 90 seconds, he released his hand, much to Bigler's dismay as he was obviously looking for a double. Nonetheless, Bigler took down the pot and is still holding on with around 35,000.
Interestingly, WSOP Circuit ring winner Joe Phelps was seated next door and we noticed he's managed to build a decent stack as of late. He is currently sitting with around 130,000.
Don’t miss your chance to qualify for the National Championship. There are still plenty of opportunities to play, including any of the remaining stops on the WSOP Circuit schedule.
We're not sure how it happens, but the seat formerly occupied by Chris Bigler now houses a different player. Simple logic tells us that Bigler has been eliminated from the Harrah's Tunica Main Event.
We're not sure how it happened, but David Clark has been eliminated from the tournament. Clark, who is the significant other of La Sengphet, has had tremendous success on the WSOP Circuit collecting two rings, though he trails his girlfriend as she has three to her name.
One thing is for sure, Clark won't be evening the score here in the Harrah's Tunica Main Event.