A late position raise to 500 over at Table 25 earned three callers, including Brian Ali from the small blind. Ali is back here in Atlantic City looking to win another WSOP-C Main Event title after taking down the WSOP-C Atlantic City Caesars event last year.
All four players checked the monotone flop. Then the turn brought the and another round of checks.
The river was the , and Ali fired a 1,000 into middle. It folded around to the original raiser who made it 2,000, and Ali called the raise. His opponent tabled for a Broadway straight, and Ali mucked.
Both Matt Glantz and Chris Klodnicki have arrived to join the battle. Glantz made it about a half-hour before Klodnicki did, although we were hearing about Klodnicki earlier via Glantz's Twitter account. That's where we also heard what Glantz has been rocking to through his first few orbits today.
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Matt Matros is here, sitting at Table 28 a couple of spots away from Josh Brikis.
Matros was just now involved in a hand in which he raised to 500 from middle position and got callers from both blinds. The flop came , and when checked to Matros bet 600, with both opponents calling. All three then checked down the turn and river.
The big blind flipped over for the straight, and Matros and the other player mucked. Matros has chipped up a little from the starting stack to this point, presently sitting with about 24,000.
Things haven't gone quite as well thus far for Brikis today, although he did have a decent run in an earlier event here at WSOP-C Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, having final tabled Event #6 where he finished sixth.
Alan Culter won that event. He's here, too, and has about 30,000 as we near the end of Level 4. Here are the results from Event #6:
WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Atlantic City Ring Event #6 Six-Handed NLHE
We were standing between a couple of tables, one of which finds Cord Garcia battling with a short stack, the other Cherish Andrews having chipped up so far today, and both players were involved in hands at their respective tables.
At Andrews's table, she'd opened for 500 from the cutoff, then a player in the blinds reraised to 1,700, and she called. Then when her opponent fired big at a flop, Andrews stepped aside.
In Garcia's hand, the pot was considerably larger — up over 9,300 — when a flop came and his opponent playing from the hijack seat pushed all in for about 14,000. Garcia (on the button) spent some time counting out his remaining chips to see that he was covered, and eventually let his hand go.
Kyle Bowker sat in his seat for no longer than 10 minutes before he was sent to the rail.
With only a few thousand in the pot and the board reading , action was on Bowker who was faced with a decision for his remaining stack (about 19,000) after his opponent bet well more than 20,000.
Bowker mulled it over for a few moments before sliding in his chips to call, happy to see his miles ahead of his opponent's . The turn kept Bowker ahead, but the spiked on the river and Bowker was quickly out the door.