What's For Dinner?
Players have 90 minutes to grab some grub and get back for the last four levels of the night.
Players have 90 minutes to grab some grub and get back for the last four levels of the night.
Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
638 players are still in the running, which is less than a third of the 2,099 who started. The plan tonight is to play out through 10 levels. If the pace continues as it has, we should get close to the money before the night comes to a close.
When I arrived at the table Dmitry Stelmak was all in and Antonio Esfandiari made the call.
Showdown:
Dmitry Stelmak:
Antonio Esfandiari:
Flop:
Turn:
River:
Stelmak is out and Esfandiari has about 50,000 chips.
Anyone who's sat at a table with Daniel Negreanu (Anyone? Anyone?) or who has seen him play on television knows that he likes to get chatty at the tables. Today is no exception as he's been talking with the other players about what he have have had, or they may have had on any given hand. He could be just plain friendly, but there's a good chance he may be trying to extract information from his opponents.
We're not sure about the action preflop but three players ended up all in.
Showdown:
Scott Clements:
Opponent 1:
Opponent 2:
Board:
Clements chopped the pot and one player was sent home.
Lauren Kling (40,000) just moved to Antonio Esfandiari's (50,000) table, let's see what happens...
Chris Moorman has rocketed towards the chip lead after getting mixed up in a big pot with Zak Gilbert. When we arrived, Gilbert had either limped or raised into the pot, which was followed by Moorman re-raising to 7,700. Action got back to Gilbert, who re-raised all in for his entire stack of 32,000. Moorman only had 29,000, but made the call.
Moorman:
Gilbert:
Gilbert was in trouble, and the dealer didn't provide any help. The cards came down .
Not a bad spot in which to pick up aces. Gilbert was left crippled with just 2,000 in chips, while Moorman has amassed a collection of 60,000.
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Ryan Nathan was treading close to the 10 big blind threshold when he went all in preflop with about 5,400 and was called by an opponent. Nathan showed while his opponent tabled . The board of allowed Nathan to double up. He is currently sitting with about 11,000 chips, enough to play some flops with.