Jeff Lisandro
T6 Poker professional Jeff Lisandro is starting to stamp his authority on his table and accumulate some chips. In a recent hand three players, including Lisandro, each contributed 525 to the pot to see a flop of . The action checked around and the turn revealed the . An early position player fired 1,500 in an attempt to take down the pot, but after some deliberation Lisandro and the third player both made the call. The river landed the and the early position player checked the action to Lisandro who quickly made a value bet of 2,500. The price seemed good, but both opponents laid down their hands and Lisandro scooped a healthy pot to progress to over 20,000 in chips.
MIA for a significant portion of the first level of play, Tony G was eliminated from the tournament midway through Round 2 after getting his chips into the middle on the turn holding a flush draw against an opponent's set. A blank on the river sent Tony to the rail.
Greg Raymer opened the pot from middle position and the button re-raised to 1,000. Raymer three-bet to 3,025 and after a moment in the tank, his opponent tossed out 8,000.
Raymer asked the young man how much he had behind, and he remained silent. "What, about six, seven thousand?" wondered Fossilman as he thought over his decision. Ultimately, he mucked.
"If you had aces, you should have pushed in. I'd have called that," said Raymer as his opponent raked in the pot. No worries, though-- he's still one of the room's larger stacks with 29,000.
Down to less than 3,000 chips at one point earlier in the day, female favorite Patrik Antonius is on the up-and-up, having recently increased the size of his stack by about 80%.
Sitting with 3,450 in chips, Antonius led out with a 500 bet on a flop of and was called by an unknown opponent on the button. The came on the turn and Patrik fired again, this time tossing 800 worth of chips across the betting line; his opponent made a quick call.
The completed the board and Patrik stacked his remaining 2,175 worth of chips and slid them across the betting line. His opponent checked and re-checked his hand before eventually tossing it into the muck.
Antonius is currently sitting with just over 6,000 in chips.
Erick Lindgren
We caught the action on the river with the board reading and Raymond Rahme firing a 3,000 chip bet into a pot that was already worth over 9,000. Erick Lindgren thought for a moment or two before tossing a single 5,000 denomination into the middle to announce a call.
Rahme sheepishly tapped the table saying "nice call" as E-Dog proudly flipped over for nothing but middle pair which was good to take down the pot. The table and nearby fans were all clearly impressed by this world class call as Lindgren progresses to around 22,000 chips while Rahme slips to about 13,000.
Mel Judah
With three players checking the action around on the flop and turn, the board read as the fell on the river. T6 Poker pro Mel Judah finally decided to fire at the pot with a 1,000 chip bet. PokerStars pro Noah Boeken went into the tank and stared Judah down, much to the disgust of the third player in the hand who commented "You're staring him down but you're not worried about me?" Boeken eventually called before the third player raised it up an additional 5,000 quipping "You're worried about me now huh?" Meanwhile Judah made a quick call before Boeken folded.
Judah flipped over for a full house which was too good for his opponent's for trips. Judah now jumps to around 18,000 in chips.
Phil Ivey
With the board reading Phil Ivey called his opponent's bet of 3,000 chips on the turn as the two players went to the river.
The river brought the and the action was checked to Ivey who fired a large bet of 6,000 into the middle. His opponent went into the tank as Ivey stared him down from underneath his masseuse. Eventually his opponent counted out his chips and made the call. Ivey simply smirked and said "You got it" as he prepared to muck his cards. His opponent flipped for trips to take down a huge pot and leave Ivey with only around 7,000 in chips.