We're not sure when the money went in, but Adam Levy was all in holding against the of his opponent. The board read and Levy was sent to the rail, but not before making plans with Joseph Cheong to grab sushi later this week.
In other news, the voice of Mixed Martial Arts, Bruce Buffer, has been eliminated from the Big Event and immediately jumped in to a side event.
The tournament staff switched gears and started breaking tables from the far end of the room. Recently, Jonathan Aguiar was moved to Table 23 where he joins Masa Kagawa, George Lind III, and Sam Stein. Interestingly, all four players are seated next to each other between Seats 2-5.
"Yeah, I put 21k into a pot and folded for 700," Charlie Wiper said, walking up to us. We just laughed, and he added, "Well I had a huge draw. And I ended with nothing." He pointed to "that guy" who'd gotten his chips, and it turns out it's everyone's favorite Vlad -- apart from "The Impaler" and "Vlad from Ukraine", of course.
It was Vladimir Schemelev who got Wiper's chips, and the Russian now finds himself with about 65,000 in front of him.
Victor Ramdin limped from middle position only to have the button raise to 1,050. After both blinds folded, Ramdin made the call and watched as the flop fell . Both players checked as the dealer burned and turned the . Once again both players checked and the peeled off on the river. Ramdin led out for a modest 1,200, the button called, and Ramdin showed . Unfortunately for him, the button showed for a full house and took down the pot. Ramdin has his work cut out for him as he dropped to around 20,000.
Joe Hachem, who was eliminated yesterday from the NBC National Heads-Up Championship when he lost to Phil Galfond in Round 1, has made his way to the Big Event. Hachem is about five hours late but still sits down to a stack of 27,250. He joins a table that includes Ty Reiman and Amnon Filippi.
With the flop of in the middle, Yevgeniy Timoshenko bet 450. His opponent raised to 900, the minimum amount. Timoshenko studied and then reraised to 3,050. His opponent gave it up and Timoshenko chipped up to 37,000.
From the cutoff seat, Steven Levy raised to 750. The player on the button reraised to 2,050 and Levy made the call.
The flop camw down and both players checked to see the fall on the turn. Levy fired a bet of 3,200 and his opponent made the call.
After the hit the river, Levy bet 7,200. His opponent tanked and tanked before eventually making the call. Levy tabled the , but lost to his opponent's . Losing that pot knocked Levy back to just 9,000 in chips.