Jason Somerville had raised to 2,000 in late position and was met with an all in from another player. It was about 9,000 more for Somerville to call. Somerville would indeed eventually make the call, but not without warning, "Just so you know, if I call and I beat you, it's going to be a bad beat."
Somerville:
Opponent:
Unfortunately for Somerville's opponent, Somerville was right on all counts. He spiked a pair of deuces when the flop came and stayed ahead through the on the turn and the on the river.
Perry Friedman is down to 4,000 after making a self-acknowledged reckless move. He had raised preflop only to be rer-aised by a woman at his table for her remaining 7,600 chips. Freidman thought for a moment before saying, "I don't care, I'll make the call."
Friedman:
Opponent:
Friedman's opponent spiked a set on the flop when it came and filled up on the turn . The river brought the , not changing a thing, and leaving Friedman with 4,000 in chips.
When we arrived on the scene, action was going down on the turn. With a board reading , Moorman got it all in and had a caller who had him covered by 30,000.
Moorman:
Opponent:
The river was the and was enough to keep Moorman ahead in the hand, and at the top of the leader board.
Jason Somerville was just involved in two hands that helped boost him back towards the front of the pack.
We were a little late getting to the first hand and caught a board reading . Somerville check-called a bet of 12,500 from his opponent and showed , which was enough to beat his opponent's .
On the very next hand, against the very same opponent, Sommerville called a preflop bet of 1,700. The flop came down .
After seeing the flop, Somerville check-called a bet of 2,800 from his opponent. Both players checked the on the turn. When the came on the river, Somerville led out with a bet of 4,800 and was called by his opponent.
Somerville showed and his opponent mucked. After this hand, Somerville is up to 99,500;
Daniel Negreanu got his money all in with and was unable to stay ahead of his opponent's . He finished about 75 players from the money as the bubble quickly approaches. We expect play to tighten up somewhat as players try to make Day 2 and earn a paycheck in the process, but so far eliminations have been coming steady.
Joe Cada has vacated his seat and his chips are nowhere to be seen. None of us have worked for special investigations units, but we're left to assume that Cada has been eliminated from today's event.
Joe Bartholdi and Yuval Bronshtein had seen a flop of when Bartholdi bet 4,200 and was called by Bronshtein. The two checked around on the turn and Bartholdi checked the on the turn. Bronshtein didn't realize that Bartholdi had already checked and appeared to go into the tank for quite a long time. Eventually Bronshtein caught on and checked.
At this point, Bartholdi said "I thought I was about to get bluffed so hard," to which Bronshtein replied, "I thought you were tanking."
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