Regional Main Event Day 1a | Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Columbus Regional Main Event

05-23-2015 21:01 UTC-5

Moneymaker Picks Off Williams

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Chris Moneymaker and Steven Williams were nice enough to reconstruct a hand for us that vaulted Moneymaker close to the 200k mark. Moneymaker raised preflop and Williams made the call. After the two-club flop, Moneymaker continued for 2,300. Williams called and an off-suit seven came on the turn. Moneymaker check-called a bet of 7,000 and the fell on the river.

Moneymaker again check-called, this time for 14,000. Moneymaker tabled and his second pair bested the pocket fives of Williams.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	188,000 51,000	51,000

Steven Williams	64,000 -34,000	-34,000

Tags: Chris Moneymaker Steven Williams

05-23-2015 21:35 UTC-5

Wetzel Takes Three-way All In

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Brandon Wetzel limped from under the gun and Andrew Jeffrey raised to 3,200 from the hijack. The small blind moved all in for 14,300 total and Wetzel went into the tank. After some thought, Wetzel shoved his entire stack of 39,200 into the middle.

Jeffrey contemplated what was essentially his entire stack and seemed to almost muck before pulling his cards back and eventually he made the call.

Wetzel:

Jeffrey:

Opponent:

The flop bamboozled Jeffrey and neither player would catch up to Wetzel as the board completed with , sending Jeffrey and an opponent to the rail, though after a countdown, Jeffrey had just less than 1,000 remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brandon Wetzel	94,000 94,000	94,000
Andrew Jeffrey	900 -27,100	-27,100

Tags: Andrew Jeffrey Jared Wetzel

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

05-23-2015 21:57 UTC-5

Ladies and Genltemen... Your Chip Leader

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Level 11 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

"What does two-ninety put me at, what place", Ken Moore asked. "Ummm, probably first", this reporter muttered. Moore has two final tables to his credit on the HPO Season 3 Regional tour.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ken Moore	290,000

Tags: Ken Moore

05-23-2015 22:12 UTC-5

Chip Alert

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Level 11 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	170,000 -18,000	-18,000

Nick Guagenti	132,000 52,000	52,000

Patrick Smith	121,000 -4,000	-4,000
Doug Holland	115,000 18,000	18,000
Daniel Jones	74,000 -3,000	-3,000
Steven Williams	68,000 4,000	4,000
Jason Dignan	38,000 -2,000	-2,000
Don Groves	33,000 8,000	8,000
Jared Palmer	Busted
Andrew Jeffrey	Busted

05-23-2015 22:28 UTC-5

Break

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Level 11 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Players are on a 15-minute break.

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

05-23-2015 22:57 UTC-5

Four-Bet Melts Moneymaker

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Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Jeff Russell raised to 4,000 from middle position and Chris Moneymaker reraised to 9,000 from the hijack. Action folded back to Russell who shoved for approximately 65,000 total. Moneymaker thought for a moment, but eventually folded to the pressure.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	210,000 40,000	40,000

Jeff Russell	75,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Chris Moneymaker Jeff Russell

05-23-2015 23:26 UTC-5

Swartz Tussles Twice with Moneymaker

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Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We picked up the action on a board of and Daniel Swartz bet 12,500. Chris Moneymaker raised to 29,000 and Swartz thought for a moment before placing out a three-bet to 50,000. Moneymaker eventually folded.

A couple of hands later, Swartz and Moneymaker were heads up again, with a board reading . Swartz check-called a bet of 20,000 and the fell on the river. Swartz led for 25,000 and Moneymaker announced "call", after some contemplation. Swartz rolled over for the rivered straight and Moneymaker incredulously mucked his hand.