On a board reading , Ryan Riess checked from late position and his opponent on the button bet 120,000. Riess wasted no time and called.
The river was the . Riess checked again, and the button immediately fired out a bet of 225,000. Riess grabbed some chips in his hand, looking like he was about to call, and said, "I don't beat much. I can beat ace queen."
After about a minute, Riess called. The button promptly mucked his cards and Riess scooped the pot. He now sits on almost double the starting stack early in the day!
Jonathan Duhamel has been moving up the leaderboard in the past couple levels with some real consistent play. After failing to bag chips yesterday in Day 1a, Duhamel is back today looking to grind up a stack.
In his latest hand, Duhamel was on the button and called a 30,000 raise from his opponent in middle position. When the flop came , his opponent led out for 35,000 and Duhamel called.
The turn was a and once again his opponent led out for 65,000 and again Duhamel called.
On the river of a , this time his opponent checked. Duhamel bet 95,000 which was the right price for his opponent to call. Duhamel tabled for the nut straight and left his opponent shaking his head.
Jonathan Duhamel will need to keep up the consistent play as Antonio Esfandiari has recently sat down at his table.
Darren Elias was all in before the flop for his last 205,000, as was Nicholas Chinell for his last 280,000. Taran Parmar saw an opportunity to eliminate two players and took it. Sure enough, he found himself miles ahead of both players.
Parmar:
Chinell:
Elias:
The board ran out and both Elias and Chinell were out the door, sending the pot over to Parmar.
Antonio Esfandiari has been seen around the Playground Poker Club for the past few days, grinding away on the partypoker Live cash game feature table; usually playing 100/200 NLHE. Today he jumped into the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event to take aim at another big tournament win.
Esfandiari was slowly getting chipped away throughout the day thus far, and he finally found himself with a hand under the gun. Esfandiari raised to 30,000. An opponent from middle position re-raised to 65,000, and when the action was folded back around to Esfandiari, he jammed his remaining 300,000 into the middle. After a quick speech, his opponent made the call and Esfandiari was left with some bad news.
Esfandiari:
Opponent:
The board ran out giving no help to Esfandiari. Unfortunately no magic for the magician today, but there is still time to re-enter today, and again tomorrow.
James Romero raised to 31,000 from under the gun, and Poorya Nazari decided to three-bet to 300,000 from the small blind. After thinking about it for a full minute, Romero four-bet jammed for his remaining stack and Nazari snap-called.
, Ryan Riess checked from late position and his opponent on the button bet 120,000. Riess wasted no time and called. 
. Riess checked again, and the button immediately fired out a bet of 225,000. Riess grabbed some chips in his hand, looking like he was about to call, and said, "I don't beat much. I can beat ace queen."
, this time his opponent checked. Duhamel bet 95,000 which was the right price for his opponent to call. Duhamel tabled 
for the nut straight and left his opponent shaking his head. 
and both Elias and Chinell were out the door, sending the pot over to Parmar.
giving no help to Esfandiari. Unfortunately no magic for the magician today, but there is still time to re-enter today, and again tomorrow.
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and Nazari doubled up.
