We're not sure exactly how he got the chips, but Jay Rosenkrantz is currently our chip leader with close to 70,000 chips. When we wandered past his table and asked him about it, he replied that he was simply "running like God".
On a board showing , a player in early position made it 800 to go. Bruno Portaro made the call from the button, sending the action heads-up to the turn -- .
Here, the early position player led out with a 1,600 bet and Portaro kicked it up to 4,600. Portaro's opponent stuck around to see the river come , and checked on the end.
Portaro then moved all in for about 7,000 and his opponent quickly made the call, tabling for the stone cold nuts. Portaro showed a straight, , before returning his cards to the dealer and exiting the tournament area.
From under the gun, Michael Thorpe made a blind raise of 400. In the cut off, Annette Obrestad made it 1,050. Thorpe made the call and they were on to the flop.
Flop:
Thorpe checked the flop and Obrestad made it 1,800. Thorpe then went all in and Obrestad went into the tank for about three minutes.
"Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?" Obrestad said to her opponent who had been one of the talkative ones at the table today. She then apologized to the table for taking so long.
Obrestad finally made the call and tabled . Thorpe showed .
The fell on the turn and a appeared on the river. Obrestad is up to 56,000.
Preflop, Tim Marsters made it 1,500 to go. An unknown opponent made it 3,000, prompting Marsters to move all in for his remaining chips. His opponent made the call.
Marsters:
Opponent:
The board ran out , giving Marsters the double up.
Catching the action on a flop of , action checked to Australian Poker Hall of Fame "Legend" Jeff Lisandro who fired 500 from the hijack position. The small blind then check-raised to 2,000 with Lisandro making the call.
The turn was a third diamond and the small blind checked to Lisandro who tossed out 4,000. His opponent made the call and the river was the . The small blind led out with a bet of 6,500 to the disgust of Lisandro.
"Ok, you rivered me..." sighed Lisandro before making a crying call with . His opponent mucked and Lisandro now finds himself with 31,000 chips.