Registration for Day 1b has closed with the end of the break after Level 8, and the second of two flights drew 74 entrants, pushing the two-flight total to 146 with Day 1c still to come.
Registration for Day 1b has closed with the end of the break after Level 8, and the second of two flights drew 74 entrants, pushing the two-flight total to 146 with Day 1c still to come.
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
We found Randy Murfin snap-calling a shove of about 10,000 from a player who limped in and then saw Murfin make it 4,000 on the button.
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Murfin turned his opponent dead as he made a flush on ![]()
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Players are on break for 15 minutes.
We found Howard Kensinger's stack behind counted down by the dealer in a three-way all-in pot. The money had gotten in preflop and the board rolled out ![]()
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, gold for Kensinger's ![]()
as it gave him a winning set against one player with ![]()
and another with ![]()
. Each player sent Kensinger 20,675, and the player with queens won a tiny side pot.
Randy Murfin just got it all in from the button on an ![]()
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flop, putting a player under the gun at risk for about 15,000.
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Murfin's two pair held as the
turn was followed by a
river.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Jonathan Gaviao busted his short stack and has reentered. In one recent pot, he bet 1,700 after the blinds checked to him on a ![]()
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board, and only the big blind called. It went check-check on the
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Mark Eddleman opened to 2,000 and got a call from the small blind before the big blind shoved all in for 12,000. Eddleman called and the small blind immediately folded.
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The small blind lamented mucking ace-jack but that changed after ![]()
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flopped to give Eddleman tens. Nothing else of note hit the board on the last two streets and Eddleman collected his opponent's stack.
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Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100