The remaining 72 players of Day 1a took a 15-minute break.
The remaining 72 players of Day 1a took a 15-minute break.
Dan McGee got into an all-in confrontation pre-flop with his opponent covered.
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and McGee took down the pot.
Joe Nguyen has built one of the biggest stacks in the tournament so far.
He told PokerNews that he had around 115,000 chips off of a 20,000 starting stack.
Jesse Shadle got it all-in in the cutoff against an opponent in the blinds.
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and Shadle doubled up with a full house.
Shadle told PokerNews he had about 22,000 after the hand.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Merrill Schneeberger went all-in on the river in a heads-up pot and tabled a set of tens before his opponent made a decision. His opponent then folded on the ace-high board and flipped over an ace as he did so.
"I almost called you," he said.
Art Murillo in the cutoff was in a heads-up hand against the hijack on a board of ![]()
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. Murillo ripped it in on the river and his opponent tanked before mucking his hand.
"That's a good move," his opponent said.
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Tommy Coker three-bet shoved a stack of about 16,000 in the hijack and the original raiser and a flat-caller both folded. Coker showed he had the goods when he flipped over pocket queens. Coker looked to have around starting stack at the end of the hand.
Mrityunjay Jha got into an all-in confrontation in the big blind against an opponent in the small blind, and Jha was the player at risk.
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The small blind was visibly flustered as he saw he was pipped in the blind-versus-blind cooler. Jha secured a double when the board ran out ![]()
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and grew his stack to around 64,000