Facing an opening raise, Henry Tran reraised to 13,000 from the hijack and the player on the button moved all. The original raiser called all in for less and Tran snap-called, tabling .
'Raiser':
'Shover':
The board ran out and Tran's aces held for a big pot.
With tournament registration now closed, 216 looks to be the final number for Day 1c, bringing the total entrants to 518 and easily more than doubling the tournament's $200,000 guarantee.
We caught the action with a completed board of and Demian Poll had bet 6,700. His opponent thought for a while and then moved chips forward from his short stack for the call.
Poll tabled and his opponent mucked as the dealer pushed the pot to Poll.
Xuan Nguyen three-bet his opponent to 7,500 from the big blind and his opponent moved all in for 30,100. Nguyen thought for a moment and settled on a call for all of his chips, just less than 30,000.
Nguyen:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Nguyen's instincts proved true for the double up.
We weren't able to catch the hand, but thanks to the video work from our awesome partners from the MSPT, we were able to reconstruct the hand.
After a flop of , Robert Koltuniak check-raised to 14,000 after a bet of 4,000 from an opponent and a call from Michael Ross. Only Ross called and the fell on the turn. Koltuniak moved all in and Ross snap-called, tabling for the set. That left Koltuniak drawing dead with and Ross secured a big double.
With this reporter's pinky to the corner of his mouth, it is with much excitement that we announce that the tournament's prize pool has exceeded $500,000.
There is still over an hour to enter, but with Day 1c entries sitting at 205, the tournament has now received over 500 entries total and the first prize is now expected to push past $120,000.