We missed the preflop action, but when we arrived at Jim Sachinidis' table, we noticed he was doubling up holding on a . By the time we were at the scene, Sachinidis was on his feet and fist pumping, while his opponent's cards were nowhere to be seen.
So asked tourney staff of table 441, shortly after Owen Crowe had been eliminated. Crowe maintained his starting stack for much of the day before getting short and ultimately losing his stack here in Level 14, and he'd managed to leave prior to being escorted to the payout desk.
The question was greeted with shrugs all around from the table, then finally the need for a description disappeared when Crowe returned.
Deanna Dozier opened with a raise to 4,500 from middle position, and it folded to Pedro Lopes on the button who reraise-shoved for 43,600 total. The blinds stepped aside, and Dozier called.
Dozier showed and needed help versus Lopes's . But the board brought no such help, coming to give Lopes the double up.
Jake Cody has chipped up in a big way since returning from dinner.
In a recent hand, the player on the button opened fro 5,000 and Cody flatted from the big blind.
Both players checked the flop, however, when Cody checked again the turn, his opponent fired 6,000 into the middle. Cody paused and flung out three orange $5,000 denomination chips for a raise to 15,000 total. Cody's opponent tanked a bit and then announced he was all in for approximately 30,000 on top. Cody snap-called and hands were revealed.
Cody: for top two pair.
Button: for top pair.
Cody had his opponent drawing dead. A meaningless was too little too late for Cody's opponent and he was sent to the rail.
Something over on Table 433 stole our attention just a few moments ago and that something was Humbertro Brenes. We knew Brenes must have been all in, simply because he was out of his chair and shouting as such. When we arrived at the table, Brenes' tiny chip stack was out in the middle of the felt and so too was his . Matthew Schultz's cards were also tabled, with Brenes coming up against . The board was not friendly to Brenes, sending his chips to Schultz and heading to the rail.
Jim "MrBigQueso" Collopy opened for 4,800 from middle position, then Mario Sanchez Juste reraised to 10,000 from late position and Collopy called. The flop came and Collopy checked. Juste bet 12,000, and Collopy called. The turn then brought the . Collopy checked once more, and this time Juste pushed all in for 50,900 and Collopy instantly called.
Collopy had for a set of deuces while Juste tabled for queens and a flush draw. The river came the , completing Juste's flush and giving him survival and a large pot.
Meanwhile, Collopy was down to about 25,000, and soon was in shove-mode and saw his Event 59 run end not long after.
We caught up with the action on a completed board reading with over 50,000 in the pot already. Alex Cordero was in the small blind against one other player in early position. Cordero had already moved all in for 111,000 and his opponent fell hard into the tank.
After a few minutes, Cordero's opponent announced, "Call," to put himself at risk. Cordero tabled for the nut straight. His opponent stood stunned at what he saw and squeezed his hand into a fist - crushing his cards. When he let go, two crumpled kings lay in front of him for an overpair.
Cordero scooped the enormous pot and is now up to approximately 320,000.