After seeing a flop of three ways against Paul Volpe in the small blind and an unidentified player in the cutoff, Anthony Zinno saw Volpe tap the table.
He decided on a bet of 3,200 and only the cutoff called, bringing the to the table on the turn. Zinno then slowed down with a check, before jamming all in over the top of the cutoff's 6,200 wager. Zinno's raise was for 13,000 more, and after asking the dealer to separate the stacks for counting purposes, the cutoff decided discretion was the better part of valor.
Matt Waxman opened the action to 1,400 and Ryan Riess raised out of the small blind to 4,200. Waxman made the call and the flop came .
Riess checked and Waxman thought for a few seconds before making a bet of 5,000. The reigning World Series of Poker Main Event Champion was quick to check-raise to 25,000, which essentially set Waxman all in. Waxman moved all in, for a total of 27,075, Riess called, and the cards were flipped over:
Matt Waxman for bottom set
Ryan Riess for a double gutter straight draw
Waxman's tournament life was on the line and he would survive when the turn was the and the river was the .
When Level 6 began a total of 103 players had ponied up for Day 1A, with the late registration period remaining available until the dinner break ends at around 8:30 p.m. local time. Although this WPT World Championship is a reentry event, players can only enter the tournament once per starting flight.
The dinner break is scheduled to last 75 minutes and will begin at the end of Level 6, with play rolling on until the end of Level 8 - or about 11:00 p.m. local time.
We caught the beginnings of a bit pot brewing and headed over to take a look.
Tony Dunst had opened for the standard raise to begin the action, a move which prompted the Shannon Shorr to three-bet, making it 3,300 to play from the button. The small blind then four-bet to 7,500, and Ryan Eriquezzo defended his big blind with a five-bet shove to just about 32,000. Dunst got out of the way and Shorr deliberated for a few seconds before moving all in himself, with the big six-bet to 60,000 or so covering the small blind player. He quickly beat a retreat as well, leaving Eriquezzo and Shorr to showdown.
Shorr:
Eriquezzo:
Eriquezzo had gone for the gusto hoping to fold the table, but his face-card hand was crushed by Shorr's pocket rockets. The flop came down because everybody loves a good sweat, and the came on the turn to give Eriquezzo a puncher's chance at turning bullets into blanks, but the river bricked off coming . Eriquezzo hit the rail midway through the day while Shorr chipped up in a major way after dodging the deck on fifth street.
Woroch was all in and at risk for his last 20,000 or so with , but unfortunately he was crushed by Micah Raskin's . The board came , and Woroch hit the rail.
With approximately 12,000 already in the pot the chips started flying on the flop. Greg Merson started it off with a 7,400 chip bet which was met with resistance from his opponent, Orson Young, when he made it 17,500 to go. The World Series of Poker Main Event winner from 2012 moved all in for 31,150 total and was called quickly by Young. The hands:
Merson: for top pair
Young: for a gutshot straight draw and the nut flush draw
The turn was the and the river was the and Merson survived the draws to double up to 70,000 in chips. Young is still in good shape with 80,000 after the hand.
"I probably should have folded pre-flop," Young told Merson after the hand "but I really liked that flop."
Having played a hand to the turn before we arrived, Tom Marchese went toe-to-toe with 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Greg Merson with a three-bet to force him off the pot.
The board read by fourth street and Merson was holding the button when Marchese led into him for 3,500.
Merson casually moved a stack forward, making it 7,100 to play, and after a long moment to contemplate his spot, Marchese put the champ to the test, three-betting to 13,500.
Having been played back at, Merson quickly laid his hand down before entering into a professional discussion with his neighbor and nemesis.
A regular sight at the tournaments here at Borgata is the broad smile on the face of Tom Dobrilovic. It's usually after he's won a big pot but he'll flash a grin at you even after taking the worst of it. Dobrilovic is off to a great start here with over three times the starting stack. Dobrilovic is no flash-in-the-pan as he has over a million dollars in lifetime tournament winnings. He has no six figure paydays on his resume though and would love to change that this week.
"I was going to buy in anyway, but I won a seat," Dobrilovic told us on the way to his seat. He's probably hoping to make a deep run and win much like another local, Anthony Zinno, did recently at a World Poker Tour televised event at Borgata.
Abe Mosseri was all in and at risk preflop for around 11,000 or holding , and Joe Kuether had him at risk with .
Both players flopped a pair when the dealer spread , and neither player held a spade. The turn was the , changing nothing, and Mosseri was eliminated when the completed the board.
We missed Lily Kiletto's last hand of the day, but after seeing her head for the exits a bit of investigation revealed that Alexey Rubin did the deed.
Rubin - who won the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic for $258,000 to start the season - dispatched a short-stacked Kiletto with on a board. Kiletto held { for middle pair but she failed to catch up, sending her last 10,000 or so across the table to Rubin.
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three ways against Paul Volpe in the small blind and an unidentified player in the cutoff, Anthony Zinno saw Volpe tap the table.
to the table on the turn. Zinno then slowed down with a check, before jamming all in over the top of the cutoff's 6,200 wager. Zinno's raise was for 13,000 more, and after asking the dealer to separate the stacks for counting purposes, the cutoff decided discretion was the better part of valor.
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for bottom set
for a double gutter straight draw
and the river was the 
because everybody loves a good sweat, and the 
. Eriquezzo hit the rail midway through the day while Shorr chipped up in a major way after dodging the deck on fifth street.
, but unfortunately he was crushed by Micah Raskin's 
, and Woroch hit the rail.
for top pair
for a gutshot straight draw and the nut flush draw
and the river was the 
and Merson survived the draws to double up to 70,000 in chips. Young is still in good shape with 80,000 after the hand.
by fourth street and Merson was holding the button when Marchese led into him for 3,500.
on a 
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