With players back from the break, the tournament staff have announced the total number of entries and the prize pool. 1,236 people entered today's event, creating a prize pool of $1,687,410. 126 places will be paid, and the player who finishes in first place will secure a $372,929 payday.
Jennifer Tilly continues to roll. Her pocket aces held up against her opponent's , even after the flop came . The turn and river bricked out, eliminating Tilly's opponent.
Ah, the difficulty of being a world champion and of trying to maintain the title of "World's Best Bluffer." Jamie Gold told his table that he is always called down by opponents holding as little as bottom pair.
He added that half the time, they make the right call.
The player under the gun raised to 600 and action folded around to Nam Le in the small blind. Le reraised all in for 5,000 total. The big blind passed and the initial raiser made the call. The players showed:
Le:
Opponent:
The community cards helped neither player, coming , and Le doubled up to just over 10,000 chips.
From the big blind, Jimmy Fricke was the only caller of a raise to 550 from an opponent in the cutoff. Both players checked the flop. Fricke bet 800 on a turn card of . His opponent called. The river brought another bet from Fricke, this time for 1,850. His opponent made the call and was shown the bad news: Fricke had flopped a flush with .
Jonathan Little has been eliminated from today's tournament. He put his stack in the middle holding pocket nines, only to see those nines overtaken by an opponent's pocket sevens when a seven hit the flop.
J.J. Liu is still scrapping away. She got her stack into the middle holding pocket queens and was called by a player holding pocket nines. Neither player improved. After the pot was pushed to Liu, her stack was up to about 9,000 chips.
Matt Brady just suffered a minor setback when his got outrun by the of his opponent. The money went in preflop and the on the flop was no good to Brady. He never caught up and is left with 2,900.