With the board reading [2d on the turn, Humberto Brenes checked from the big blind and the cutoff made a pot-sized bet of 12,000, leaving himself only 5,000 behind. Brenes tanked for a minute or so before moving his entire stack in the middle, and the cutoff called.
Brenes
Cutoff
The river blanked out and Brenes raked in the pot, increasing his stack to 49,000.
J.C. Tran opened for 800 from middle position, Dan Heimiller called from the button, and Daniel Negreanu three-bet to 2,800 from the big blind. Tran called, and Heimiller called all-in for 1,475.
Negreanu led out for 3,500 on the flop and Tran folded.
Heimiller
Negreanu
Negreanu hit top set but he still had to sweat the turn and river as Heimiller flopped an open-ended straight draw. The turn was the and the river was the , Negreanu making queens full to send Heimiller to the rail.
We didn't see the hand, but Matt Keikoan just followed a friend bearing take-away food out a side door of the Amazon Room as the dealer at his former table called "Seat Open!" We'd say that's enough circumstantial evidence to declare the two-time bracelet winner busto from this event.
On a flop, Tom Marchese bet 1,900 and the cutoff raised to 3,800. Marchese called and they went to the turn, which fell the . Marchese check-called another 6,500. The river was the and both players checked.
"How much has the chip leader right now?" Martin Kabrhel asked, rushing over to our desk.
"Our biggest stack is around 85,000," we told him.
"I have 135,000," Kabrhel said, scribbling notes furiously on his pad of paper that included a diagram of his table. After a visit of just a few seconds, Kabrhel ran awkwardly back to his table in time to catch his next hand.
We just noticed a registration card on Table 294 in front of a dead stack, and it reads "Phillip Hellmuth".
The Brat hasn't shown up yet, and his stack has been blinded down around 26,000 so far. When he does arrive, he'll be sitting with Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jordan Morgan, and chip leader Martin Kabrhel.
Dustin Woolf raised to 1,075 preflop, and Vivek Rajkumar three-bet to 2,800. After some time in the tank, Woolf reraised, and Rajkumar set him all in for about 11,000 total. Woolf called.
Showdown
Woolf:
Rajkumar:
The board ran out clean, coming , and that doubles Woolf up to 23,000 just before the dinner break. Rajkumar is back to 28,000 after failing in that knockout bid.
That's four levels down and four to go. Ah, but first, a break! It's one hour for dinner this time, and the players have been sent out of the room until 10:25 p.m.
We'll be back then with our last four levels of Day 1.