Larry Ormson opened for 2,200 under the gun and received a call from the player in the cutoff. The button and both blinds folded, the flop fell , and Ormson fired out 2,400. The cutoff instantly moved all in and Ormson, who was in the middle of receiving a massage, shrugged before folding the and an unknown card. Ormson is down to just 6,200.
We happened upon Table 33 with approximately 14,000 already in the pot and a board reading . Henry Tran, who you may recall from a rather sick hand from the 2012 WSOP (see video below), had bet 8,000 from the small blind only to have his opponent raise to 18,000 from middle position. Tran tanked for a solid five minutes before a clock was called and he folded his hand. His opponent then tabled for nothing but an open-ended straight draw.
Matthew Weber took down his third ring in Event #7 $365 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed. Photo courtesy of the WSOP.
Someone was going to win his third gold ring. That was the story of Event 7 $365 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed as Matthew Weber and Jeff Fielder faced off in heads-up action. The tournament, which attracted 184 players, ultimately went to Weber.
“Honestly, in this tournament, from the very beginning I vaulted up to 80,000 chips from the 10,000 starting stack and never looked back,” Weber said. “I was probably top three in chips the entire time. As soon as we hit dinner break and I was sitting on 150,000, I’m thinking to myself ‘this is my tournament to lose already.’”
Weber, a 25-year-old professional poker player, won his first ring in 2011 at Harrah’s Rincon and then added a second at Harrah’s Tunica less than a year later. In order to capture his third, he had to defeat Fielder, who won the WSOP Circuit Choctaw Main Event back in January. Weber did so by hitting the river with his against Fielder’s .
Weber sported a Boston Red Sox hat and addressed the recent events in that city. “I’ve been a Boston Red Sox fan since I was born. My grandpa lived there for quite some time,” Weber said. “[The victims in Boston] will be in my thoughts and prayers going through this tough time as I’m sure they will be for everybody else in the country.”
WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Council Bluffs Ring Event #7 NLHE Six Handed
In November of last year, Cary Marshall took down the World Series of Poker Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe Main Event. He did so by entering the final day as the chip leader and rode it all the way to victory to top a 422-player field and take down the $139,260 first-place prize and a seat into this year's National Championship.
We're not sure how we missed him all day, but Marshall is playing in the Day 1b flight and sitting with a stack of 35,000. Can he add another WSOP Circuit Main Event ring to his jewelry collection? Only time will tell.
Rex Clinkscales was down to his last 9,000 or so when he got it all in preflop holding the against the of the player in the small blind. It was a race, but Clinkscales pulled way out in front when the flop gave him a set. The turn left his opponent drawing dead, and after the was run out on the river for good measure, Clinkscales took down a much-needed pot.
Two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Kat Bowen has been eliminated from the tournament. We didn't catch the hand, but Bowen walked by our desk and informed us she had lost with on a board to an opponent that held . We're not sure when the money went in, but the results was the same, Bowen has been eliminated from the Main Event.
Just before the last break, a big hand took place that saw the rich get richer. It happened when Eddie Blumenthal opened and an unknown player in Seat 1 three-bet to 7,500. Chip leader Scott Sharpe then opted to move all in from the button and put the pressure on his opponents.
Blumenthal thought long and hard before calling off for around 45,000 with , Seat 1 did the same with the , but both players were behind the of Sharp. The ten-high flop, which contained two spades, made things interesting, as did the turn, but the blanked on the river and Sharp scored the double elimination to chip up to 185,000.
, and Ormson fired out 2,400. The cutoff instantly moved all in and Ormson, who was in the middle of receiving a massage, shrugged before folding the 
and an unknown card. Ormson is down to just 6,200.
. Henry Tran, who you may recall from a rather sick hand from the 2012 WSOP (see video below), had bet 8,000 from the small blind only to have his opponent raise to 18,000 from middle position. Tran tanked for a solid five minutes before a clock was called and he folded his hand. His opponent then tabled 
for nothing but an open-ended straight draw.
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against the 
of the player in the small blind. It was a race, but Clinkscales pulled way out in front when the 
flop gave him a set. The 
turn left his opponent drawing dead, and after the 
. We're not sure when the money went in, but the results was the same, Bowen has been eliminated from the Main Event.
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blanked on the river and Sharp scored the double elimination to chip up to 185,000.