05-09-2015 23:25 UTC-4
Ronald McDonald
New table, new seat, same result as Ronald McDonald is pounding away at the competition and increasing his lead.
He opened to 3,200 and Carl Garland called directly on his left. The big blind came along for the ride and they went three-handed to an flop.
It checked to McDonald and he led out for 7,500. Both players folded.
Player
Chips
Progress
Ronald McDonald
350,000
15,000
15,000
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Ronald McDonald Carl Garland
05-09-2015 23:09 UTC-4
Down to 27 now they are redrawing for seats at the final three tables with 19 minutes left in Level 11.
05-09-2015 22:57 UTC-4
Ronald "Rooster" McDonald finally lost a hand and it took a relatively bad beat to get it done.
It was McDonald's pocket sevens versus short stack Jeffrey Dolezal's pocket sevens with Dolezal at risk for his tournament life.
The board ran out with four hearts on it, and since Dolezal had the , rather than chopping, he doubled up.
05-09-2015 22:47 UTC-4
Here's how the early and current leaders are faring into Level 11:
Player
Chips
Progress
Ronald McDonald
300,000
60,000
60,000
Carl Garland
200,000
14,000
14,000
Chris Yeary
175,000
55,000
55,000
175,000
10,000
10,000
Casey Glick
130,000
Tommy Ingram
125,000
Anthony Vaughn
125,000
10,000
10,000
Chris Moneymaker
90,000
25,000
25,000
85,000
15,000
15,000
Chris Grove
65,500
8,500
8,500
Steven Gurney-Goldman
65,000
16,000
16,000
35,000
3,000
3,000
Lee Childs
30,000
10,000
10,000
Hersh Mahajan
Busted
Andrew Rudnik
Busted
05-09-2015 22:22 UTC-4
Now through 10 levels on the day the 32 players remaining are off on a 15-minute break.
In the meantime, the tournament staff are coloring up, racing off and removing the green 25-denomination chips.
05-09-2015 22:09 UTC-4
Chris Moneymaker
There was about 13,000 in the middle and Chris Moneymaker was faced with a 9,000-chip bet from his heads-up opponent on an board.
Moneymaker went deep into the tank on this one, but emerged with a call.
"Good call," his opponent said.
"We'll see," replied Moneymaker. "I've got a four."
"Like I said, good call," added his opponent, mucking as the table sat with their jaws dropped on the felt, astonished by the call Moneymaker just made showing for fourth pair.
"I'm at the wrong table," added one player.
Player
Chips
Progress
Chris Moneymaker
115,000
41,000
41,000
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Chris Moneymaker
05-09-2015 21:53 UTC-4
Ronald McDonald keeps rolling right along.
After a preflop raising war, McDonald called off one 24,000-chip shove with just . Of course he was right as his heads-up opponent held and hit the rail after an run out.
Player
Chips
Progress
Ronald McDonald
240,000
15,000
15,000
05-09-2015 21:48 UTC-4
Lee Childs
Lee Childs, who had been bleeding chips over the last level, just stopped the bleeding with a classic stop and go.
An flop was checked around four-handed, but when one player bet 5,000 into the turn, Childs was the only caller.
The river came the and Childs instantly took the lead, pushing all in.
"It's hard to fold an ace here," said Childs' opponent, eventually doing so, showing and a ton of respect.
Player
Chips
Progress
Lee Childs
40,000
17,000
17,000
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Lee Childs