With the Shark Cage taking place next to the EPT Live webcast and the regular Super High Roller tables out in the field, PokerStars Blog takes a quick meditation on television’s perennial struggle with capturing everything there is to be seen at a poker tournament.
Mike Watson raised to 9,000 in the hijack, Mike McDonald three-bet to 27,000 in the cutoff and Watson called to see a flop of .
Watson check-called 25,000 from McDonald to see the turn, which both players checked. The river completed the board and Watson bet 62,000. McDonald tanked for a bit before he called.
The tournament area of the $100,000 Super High Roller just got a little bit crazier as a new prop bet has been issued to Mike "Timex" McDonald. As we reported on earlier in the day, McDonald completed 300 air squats during one level and was handsomely rewarded for his efforts with a payday of $10,000. Now, it seems the challenge level for McDonald has been drastically increased.
McDonald has recently begun a quest to complete 350 push-ups before the 60-minute level concludes. From what we can gather, McDonald was challenged by Bill Perkins who will reward a successful McDonald with another $10,000 and $10,000 to a charity of his choice. In order to ensure that McDonald's push-ups were of quality, a plastic food container was placed on the ground and it has been ruled that his chest must touch the container during each push-up.
Immediately following a set of push-ups, McDonald hopped back up to the table to look at a hand he was dealt. After folding the cards, McDonald instinctively grabbed a stack of chips and began riffling them.
"Are you sure you should be shuffling chips?" asked Jason Mercier from another table. "You're wasting energy."
McDonald immediately stopped and placed the stack back with the rest of his chips, eliciting a large belly laugh from Mercier. As of this post, McDonald's push up count sits just over 100.
Before the 2015 PCA Main Event gets going later this week, another Main Event will be kicking off tomorrow as the Latin American Poker Tour launches its Season 8 with the first ever LAPT Bahamas Main Event. Head over to the PokerStars blog to hear what LAPT President David Carrion has to say about the new stop for the tour, his expectations for the $3,000 buy-in LAPT Bahamas Main Event, and other ideas in the works for this year's Season 8.
Zach Hyman raised to 10,000 in middle position, Sam Greenwood three-bet to 30,000 in the hijack and Byron Kaverman four-bet to 60,000 in the cutoff. Hyman folded, Greenwood five-bet to effectively 190,000ish and Kaverman called all in.
Greenwood:
Kaverman:
The board ran out , no help to Kaverman, securing the pot and the chip lead for Greenwood.