Sao Paulo Metropolitans' Byron Kaverman arrived a little late to the game. He sat out the first couple of hands, but didn't miss much. He only lost a couple hundred points, but just won a small pot to get back to the starting stack of 25,000.
Scott Ball just won the first big pot of the day. He opened from the cutoff with and Jason Mercier called from the button holding . Xuan Liu put in a three-bet from the small blind with and both Ball and Mercier called.
The flop gave Ball a set of sevens, while Liu made top pair. Liu continued for 2,746 and Ball was the only caller. Both players checked the turn.
The river was the and Liu fired out a bet of 6,244. Ball wasn't impressed by that bet and went all-in for 20,227. Liu folded and Ball was the early chipleader.
In these Americas conference 6-max heats, Scott Ball is the best scoring player in the Global Poker League. He already scored 39 points for the Las Vegas Moneymakers. Although he got most of his points in the four heads up matches he played.
In this format, he scored 15 points, which include one win in four appearances. Xuan Liu (Montreal Nationals) and Kitty Kuo (San Francisco Rush) also won a 6-max heat before. Both played two 6-max matches so far.
Jason Mercier and Byron Kaverman where in the line up twice before, but haven't scored a win so far. Mercier finished third and fourth, while Kaverman ended up fourth and fifth.
Maria Ho only played one match so far in which she finished fifth.
Not only the Eurasia conference is back in action. The Americas conference is ready to play after the 10-week summer break. In a few moments the first of two 6-max heats of the Americas conference will start.
This match will feature; Jason Mercier, Maria Ho, Kitty Kuo, Scott Ball, Xuan Liu and Byron Kaverman. They are all looking to score big points for their teams.
The first heat is scheduled to start at 3:30pm EDT (21:30 CEST). The second round will start at 5:10pm. PokerNews will be here to cover the actions as it happens.