Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Tournament officials have announced that today the tournament will play 16 levels or down to a final table, whichever comes sooner.
Barry Sweeney opened to 35,000 and Chris Moneymaker defended his big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Moneymaker checked. Sweeney continued for 55,000 and Moneymaker check-raised to 155,000.
Sweeney moved all in and Moneymaker called.
Moneymaker showed ![]()
and was ahead of the ![]()
of Sweeney. That was until the
came on the turn, with the
too little too late as Sweeney doubled through the start-of-day chip leader to become the first player over a million in chips.
Level: 20
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Marian Calota was getting a double up counted out through Ahmad Jerjis after cracking both his ![]()
and the ![]()
of Jen-Yue Chiang.
Calota held ![]()
on a ![]()
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board and sent Chiang to the rail, doubling through Jerjis to sit on around 400,000 in chips.
Reza Movasat raised to 32,000 from the cutoff, apparently blind.
"You haven't looked?" asked Colin Lovelock on the button.
"Obviously if someone raises I'll look," replied Movasat.
Lovelock then three-bet all in for 265,000. The blinds folded and Movasat looked at his cards.
"Call," he said with ![]()
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"At least I'm ahead," said Lovelock with ![]()
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The pocket pair held on the ![]()
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runout and Lovelock moved above 500,000 in chips.
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000