Some late registrants were seat at Table 49 on the upper section of the poker room. Among them are Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel and WSOP APAC bracelet winner Sam Higgs.
We picked up the action on a board of and Yuri Dzivielevski checked from first position. Jason Koon, seated on the button, made a bet of 5,200 and Dzivielevski called.
The completed the board and Dzivielevski bet out 8,500. Koon wasn't thrilled by the bet and took his time contemplating what to do. "8,500?" he asked and after confirmation he put aside the 8,500 to call and thought about it some more.
Eventually Koon called, but he instantly mucked upon seeing Dzivielevski's . Koon is still at around 45,000.
We happened upon Table 27 at the tail end of a big pot between Connor Drinan and Sergio Aido.
There was 14,600 in the pot and a board reading when Aido bet 11,000 from the small blind and Drinan, who was in the cutoff, hit the tank. Drinan seemed to waver back and forth, but eventually picked up his cards and sent them to the muck.
With 4,100 in the pot and a board reading , Chance Kornuth checked from the big blind and WSOP Europe bracelet winner Dietrich Fast did the same from the button. When the completed the board on the river, Kornuth led out for 1,800 and Fast thought for a bit before popping it to 7,000. Kornuth wasted little time in folding.
"Are we showing bluffs today?" Kornuth asked. Fast did not respond.
It's only the first level of the day, but we've already caught a big pot between Sean Giesbrecht and Timo He.
An enthusiastic Nick Yunis approached us, and pointed towards the board on his table with lots of chips already in the middle. Yunis recapped the hand for us, which went as following according to him.
Giesbrecht raised before the flop to 500 and Timo He called from the button after which one player called from the blinds. The flop brought out and the action was checked to the button, and He bet 1,200. Giesbrecht, according to Yunis, was trying to make the call but accidentally he put in too many chips, forcing him to raise to 2,400.
He called the raise, and the turn brought the , on which Giesbrecht bet another 3,300. He now raised it up to 9,300 and Giesbrecht came back over the top to 16,000. He called, and the river was the .
After a while Giesbrecht checked, and folded when He bet 15,200. Giesbrecht dropped quite a few chips in the first level, while He's off to a good start.
Home town player Michael Egan raised from the button and small blind Georgios Zisimopoulos intended to three-bet. He picked out the wrong chips however, and ended up just calling by accident. Big blind Connor Drinan made the call as well and the three of them took a flop of .
Zisimopoulos bet out 1,025 and Connor Drinan in the big blind raised it up to 3,200 almost instantaneous. Egan went out the way and Zisimopoulos called.
Zisimopoulos checked to his neighbor on the turn and called the 6,500 bet Drinan made.
The completed the board and Zisimopoulos checked. Drinan shoved all in for 27,300 and Zisimopoulos went into the tank. He thought about it for a good four minutes and at one point almost folded, but tossed in the chips to call in the end anyway.
Drinan showed his for the flopped straight and Zisimopoulos flashed before mucking.
[Removed:17] raised to 500 from hijack and received calls from Nick Yunis and Timo He on the button and in the big blind respectively. All three players proceeded to check the flop, the dealer burned and turned the , and He checked.
Yan tossed out 1,150, only Yunis called, and it was heads-up to the river. Yan bet again, this time 2,700, and it did the trick as Yunis gave it up.
In a recent hand, action folded to Trevallion in the small blind and he just limped while he chowed down on a salad. Daniel Neilson, who is sporting quite the beard, then exercised his option to raise in the big by making it 400. Trevallion made the call and then check-called a bet of 450 on the flop.
Both players then checked the turn as well as the river. Neilson tabled the for a pair of sixes, but it was no good as Trevallion had rivered a straight with the .
That may have been a small win, but as you can see by his chip count, it's been a good start for the defending champ.
We just saw Brian Yoon, from the big blind, David Peters from the small blind and Daniel Lim, under the gun plus one, invest 1,200 to see a flop of .
Yoon bet 1,600 on the flop and Lim called, after which Peters folded.
The turn brought the and now Yoon checked to Lim who bet 3,575. Yoon made the call and on the river the hit.
Yoon checked the river and Lim bet 6,250, which was called by the former. Lim showed and Yoon mucked his cards, dropping quite a few chips in this hand.