Event #33: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha
Day 2 Started
Event #33: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha
Day 2 Started
Just 116 players have come back to take the felt for Event #33: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha. We're set up in the orange section of the Amazon Room and all around us the room is abuzz with players from different events. It definitely is a packed house today.
Justin "Boosted J" Smith comes into the day as the chip leader with 130,000. He is the only player to come back from day one with over 100,000 in chips. Just behind him is Tyler Patterson with 95,300. Lurking in the field however are Andy Black, Kevin MacPhee, Alex Kamberis, Allen Bari, and many more, all with the hopes of taking down this tournament along with the $260,517 first place prize.
Level: 9
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
So we got started a little late, but things are in order now. Let's shuffle up and deal!
Pot-Limit Omaha
On a flop of Vitaly Lunkin committed the rest of his chips versus Scott Armstrong who made the call.
Lunkin:
Armstrong:
The turn brought the and the river the , giving Armstrong top two and the win. He's now up to 32,000.
Pot-Limit Hold'em
On the flop of , Craig Hartman bet 1,800 from middle position and Burt Boutin called after checking. The turn was the and Boutin led out for 3,000. Hartman made the call.
The river was the and Boutin bet 5,000. Hartman made the call.
Boatman tabled the and Hartman mucked, dropped to about 60,000 in chips. Boutin moved up to 46,000.
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Haresh Jethani was all in preflop with against the of Franklin Grigsby. The board ran out and Jethani hit the rail while Grigsby moved up to 54,000 in chips.
Phil Ivey is seated right in front of us at the feature table, but he's not playing the event we're covering. The table he is at is a six-handed no-limit hold'em event, but Ivey is also still in our event as well, meaning he'll be multi-tabling at least two events today. We'll keep you posted as to how he's doing.
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Mathieu Jacqmin made it 1,900 from the cutoff and Thiago Nishijima moved all in from the big blind. Jacqmin made the call and the cards were on their backs.
Jacqmin:
Nishijima:
The board rolled out and Nishijima doubled to 17,000, while Jacqmin is now sitting at 39,500.
Pot-Limit Hold'em
From under the gun, David Chiu made bumped it up to 2,500. Michael Piper raised to 6,800 from the big blind and Chiu made the call.
Piper moved all in after a flop of . Chiu folded face up.
An player at the table said, "Show an eight."
"What do you think I am? Some schlub that shows his cards?" replied Piper and tossed his cards into the muck.