Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Brandon Smith has brought Andros Ioakimides down to earth.
Smith flopped a set of eights, then got all his chips in once Ioakimides turned an open ender.
The river bricked and Smith doubled.
Tim Vance got a much needed double up with a set of queens against a set of deuces to get off life support for now.
With registration closed, the prizepool information has been released.
The prizepool reached a total of $173,000 from which 15 spots will get paid. A minimum cash is worth $3,287, but the big money is up top with $48,440 reserved for first.
Below are updated counts for the big stacks and early leaders:
Registration and re-entry has now closed with the start of Level 7.
TD Bill Bruce just informed PokerNews the total number of entries reached 173.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
With six full levels now in the books the remaining players have been sent off on a 60-minute dinner break.
Play will resume little after 6:30 p.m. local time with plans to play another eight levels.
Yet another lucky river card has vaulted a player up near the top of the counts.
This time the beneficiary was Travis Smith, who got it in holding ![]()
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board against one opponent with ![]()
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The
river made Smith's day an even better one.
Dorianne May has moved into the top spot on the leaderboard after a very fortunate river card helped her bust one opponent.
May had bet 6,000 on the turn of a ![]()
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board and sat in the tank for a good two minutes when her opponent pushed in for a little more than 20,000 total.
She eventually made the call with ![]()
for two pair and was behind her opponent's ![]()
Broadway straight.
However, the
river changed all that as May filled up and her opponent hit the rail.