Faced with a raise to 10,000 and a call from Herald Barber, Pauline Wightman moved all in for 22,000. The original raiser re-raised to 50,000, and Barber folded.
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The flop fell , giving Wightman a gut-shot straight draw to go with her two overs, and the on the turn gave her a leading pair of kings. The on the river was an insignificant card, and Wightman more than doubled to 60,000 chips.
After winning what appears to be a 300,000-chip pot, eliminating Bart Dowling, Bob Horan is far and away our chip leader here in Event 2: $550 Black-Chip Bounty NLHE Reentry.
When we arrived at the table, Horan was scooping the pot and the dealer was washing the board. According to the players at the table, Horan flopped a set of threes against Dowling's top pair with a flush draw.
Horan was apologizing to the table for tanking even though he had a very strong hand.
"I thought he had a set of eights," he admitted.
Dowling was unable to complete his flush draw or hit running cards, and is eliminated shy of the money. Horan has what looks like 370,000 chips.
We get to the table with over 175,000 in the pot and the board reading . Olivier Correge from France is all in for 67500 and Shiva Ramnath is contemplating whether to call or not. Olivier is looking directly at Shiva, with a very confident look and posture. Ramnath makes the call with for an open ended straight draw and a flush draw. A grimace came over Correge's face despite having the best of it with as he knew Shiva had a ton of outs to send him to the rail.
The river was the and Olivier scores a huge double up to move over 300,000 in chips while Ramnath takes a big hit and is down to 139,000.
The prize pool information has been released. The 299 entrants generated a total prize pool of $101,511, and the top 27 players will earn a minimum of $914 along with their $100 bounty chips.
The top nine players will walk away with $2,030, while the winner will pocket $28,420. For a full list of information, click the Payouts tab above.
All of the money went in preflop between Herald Barber, Craig Feldherr and a third opponent. Barber had both players covered, and was in great shape to take downa double bounty.
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The shortest player took the lead when the flop fell , making a pair of kings, and remained ahead after the turn produced the .
The spiked onto the felt on the river, however, and Feldherr shot out of his seat excitedly. He earned a bounty for busting the short-stacked player and received a full double through Barber, bringing his stack to around 190,000.