Roy Winston has been on a bit of a rush. He and three others limped in to see a flop, and one player shoved for 7,000. Winston, after asking for a count on the all in, called.
Jared Hamby is doing rather well on around 45,000. Most recently he reraised an opponent's 1,600 button raise to 5,250. The opponent called, but then folded when Hamby bet out 5,850 on the flop.
Kai Paulsen in the big blind calls 900 from the small blind, and they see a flop. They both check the turn, and the small blind checks the river, before Paulsen makes him fold with a 1,500 bet.
As I was loitering around table 15, the highly entertaining Mike Schwartz, who, incidentally, finished second in the $1,500 shootout event two days back, called me over while he was being dealt a hand.
"Do you have microphones over there?" he asked.
I had no idea what he was talking about, and wasn't given a chance to find out as our conversation came to a very abrupt end as he looked at his cards.
"I raise," he announced, throwing 600 of his 6,000 stack into the pot.
In what was a quick fire sequence of events, the big blind made it 3,000, Schwartz pushed all in, and his opponent called.
Whilst the big blind proudly turned over , he was dismayed to see he was dominated by Schwartz's , and duly requested...
"Big suck out please."
However, it didn't quite pan out that way, the sealing the deal before the third card had even hit the felt.
As a result, Schwartz doubles through to 13,000, but I was left wondering about those mysterious microphones and exactly what Schwartz was talking about. Maybe I'll find out later...
T6 Poker's Thierry Van Den Berg has been eliminated from today's event. With the button raising to 5,000 preflop, Daniel Deveau pushes all in from the small blind, as does Van Den Berg the next seat down.
After the button folds, a coinflip is revealed, Deveau's nines hoping to survive a raggy board against Van Den Berg's Big Slick. Five blanks later and the Dutchman was gone.
A player, Guy A, didn't play a single hand in two hours, and then suddenly raised to 2,100. You'd think that in these circumstances everyone might fold, but instead, Guy B made it 6,000. Guy C dwelled for a long time, but then folded. And one TJ Yurkanin, who cashed in 62nd in this event two years ago, went all in. Guy A (the original raiser) calls. Guy B (the reraiser) thought about it but folded. So they were all in and heads up by the time the board was dealt.
I shall tell you all their cards, though, just to make it fun.
Guy A :
Guy B (folded):
Guy C (folded):
TJ Yurkanin:
A jack on the flop, so Guy C would be kicking himself, except that there was also a king on the flop, meaning that Yurkanin doubles up to 30,000.
Aussie Alan Jeffries, who excited our Australian field reporter with his mere presence, has just suffered a hit to his once 47,000 stack in rather unfortunate circumstances.
With his opponent open shoving under-the-gun with , Jeffries called one seat down with , but was defeated by a set -- which improved further to a full house -- on an ensuing board.