After some preflop action had built up a pot of 3,600, the flop came , prompting Clonie Gowen to move all in for 3,400. A player in late position contemplated for a while, then made the call with his last 2,900. Gowen showed for top two, while her opponent turned over for the spade flush draw.
The came on the turn, giving Gowen's opponent his flush. The river was the , and Gowen is down to 500 chips.
A player in middle position raised to 450, and both the button and Paul Wasicka in the small blind called. The flop came . Wasicka checked, the MP player bet 750, the button folded, and Wasicka called. The turn was the . Wasicka again checked, the original raiser bet 950 this time, and Wasicka again made the call.
The river was the . This time both players checked, and Wasicka turned over for jacks. His opponent mucked. Wasicka is at 8,500 now.
Three players limped, including Matt Christensen in the hijack seat and Hevad Khan on the button. The small blind completed, the big blind checked, and the flop came . The player UTG led with a bet of 250. Christensen then raised it to 900, causing the others all to fold. The UTG reraised all in with the last of his chips, and Christensen called.
The UTG player showed for top pair, but Christensen had for the set of sevens. The turn was the and the river the , and another player hit the rail.
Christensen is up over 12,000 right now. Khan has about 4,000.
David Sklansky raised to 250 from the hijack seat, and both the player sitting to his left in the cutoff and the small blind called. The flop came , and all three players checked. The turn was the . It checked to the cutoff who bet 400. Both the SB and Sklansky called.
The river was the . It again checked to the cutoff, who this time bet 900. The small blind quickly called, and Sklansky folded.
The CO tabled . The SB showed and dragged the pot. Sklansky is at about 3,500 right now.
We've spotted Hevad Khan, Marco Traniello, David Sklansky, David Singer, and Roland de Wolfe here in the Amazon Room.
Over in the Brasilia are sitting Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Erik Lindgren, Josh Cranfill, Chad Batista, and Paul Wasicka.
And in the Miranda are Liv Boeree, Shannon Elizabeth, Nikolay Edvakov, Rob Hollink, T.J. Cloutier, Jeff Madsen, Miami John Cernuto, Allen Cunningham, Jason Mercier, Allen Kessler, and Kathy Liebert.
Seeing a lot of limping and checking here in the early going. Recently saw a player make a raise to 100 from middle position, and it folded back to the small blind. "Is that a raise?" asked the SB. "A min-raise," said the player in the big blind. "He wants my action bad," he added.
The SB folded, the BB called, and the flop came . The big blind checked, and the min-raiser continued with a bet of 200. "You look too serious," said his opponent as he folded.
So said a tournament official, referring to the various locations players have been seated for today's event. The total number of registrants has just hit the 2,000-player mark, and continues to rise.
Players are located here in the Amazon room as well as down the hall in both the Brasilia and Miranda rooms.
Alex Jacob raised to 125 from middle position, and only the small blind came along. The flop came . The SB checked, Jacob continued with a bet of 200, and his opponent called. Both checked the on the turn.
The river was the , and this time the player in the small blind led out with a bet of 500. Jacob considered for ten seconds or so, then let it go. Jacob is down to 2,100.
The table had folded around to Dutch Boyd in the cutoff. He grabbed a blue (100) and green (25) chip, and was holding them out in his right hand when the player in the big blind -- the coffee he'd ordered having just arrived -- turned to the table and surprisingly announced "Raise" and tossed out a bet of 250.
The out-of-turn bet caused Boyd to stop and reconsider. He replaced his chips and slid his cards to the dealer. The other players folded as well.