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222 players remain, and we are approaching the money bubble.
222 players remain, and we are approaching the money bubble.
A player in middle position opened for 5,000. Paul Biggs made the call from the cutoff and Eric Wasserson moved all in from the button for 27,600. The original raiser folded and the player in the cutoff turned to his tablemate Lauren Kling and asked if she thought his opponent had a pair. Apparently earlier Kling had said that she had online history Wasserson. Kling respectfully declined to help Biggs.
"I'm feeling lucky," he said and made the call.
Biggs:
Wasserson:
The board rolled out and Biggs increased his stack to 175,000 while Wasserson made his exit.
From under the gun plus one, Tommie Janssen opened to 4,000. Darryll Fish moved all in for 17,400. Janssen made the call and the cards were tabled.
Fish:
Janssen:
The board rolled out and Fish found a double up to keep his tournament hopes alive.
A really impressive number of Team Pros entered this event - we believe we had around 20 of them start this event yesterday - but we are now down to just two.
The sole remaining Team PokerStars Pros in our field as we approach the money are Andre Akkari and Victor Ramdin - and on a below-average 45,000 and 55,000, they've got a fair bit of work to do if they're going to become the first Team PokerStars bracelet winner of the Series.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Isaac Baron |
230,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
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Sasha Rosewood
|
180,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Thien Nguyen |
170,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
David Singer |
150,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Dan Shak |
120,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
||
Salvatore Bonavena |
97,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
Jon Turner |
85,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Victor Ramdin |
55,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Andre Akkari |
45,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Sida Yuen
|
30,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
Paul Testud |
21,000
-44,000
|
-44,000 |
[Removed:13] |
20,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Dan Heimiller |
20,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
||
Lauren Kling |
19,000
600
|
600 |
|
Jamie Gold opened for 5,000 in the hijack and the gent in the small blind called to see a flop. The small blind checked, Gold bet 4,000 and the small blind called.
They saw an turn and Mr. Small blind bet out 5,300. Gold called. They saw a river as well and Mr. Small Blind now bet out 7,000. Gold snap-folded and dropped to 36,000.
We are three places off the money. Our current chip leader is Thien Nguyen who has roughly 315,000 - he must have knocked out another big stack when no-one was looking, as he was at 170,000 when he checked up on him 10 minutes ago.
Alex Keating will not be one of the happy 198 who make the money in this tournament.
He was all in for just a few thousand with and up against pocket kings. The board ran out which was not enough to swing it for Keating. He pretended to celebrate when the seven dropped, though, then put his backpack on and made a peace sign before leaving.
The flop was . Dan Shak bet enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent sighed and made the call.
Shak:
Opponent:
The turn brought the and the river the and Shak doubled his opponent. Shak is at 57,000 now.
We understand that it was four-bet preflop and Shane Schleger bet out on the flop before calling the push from his opponent. Either way, when we arrived all the cards were on the table and the 185,000 pot was being shipped to Schleger's opponent.
Schleger:
Mr. Winner:
Board:
"Oh s***," said Schleger as he looked at the board and realized just how close the bubble was. He was left with 26,000.