We walked up to a completed board of and Robert Koltuniak bet 2,000. Sam Wozniak threw out a raise to 11,000. Koltuniak thought for a while and eventually called. "You're good," Wozniak said as he rolled over for air. Koltuniak tabled for top pair.
Wozniak was beside himself after the hand. "I knew exactly what you had," he said, not believing that his raise wasn't enough to get Koltuniak off of his hand.
Nick Kost raised to 1,100 from under the gun and received four callers, including Wayne Smith from the big blind. The flop was and Smith led for 6,200. Kost folded and Smith received one caller. The fell on the turn and Smith continued for 8,000.
Smith's opponent moved all in for 12,400 total and Smith reluctantly called. His opponent was shocked when turning over his own cards, showing . "I though it was queen-three," his opponent said. Smith tabled , leaving his opponent drawing dead to a couple of threes. The fell on the turn and Smith's opponent was sent packing.
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.
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.
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 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.
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and Robert Koltuniak bet 2,000. Sam Wozniak threw out a raise to 11,000. Koltuniak thought for a while and eventually called. "You're good," Wozniak said as he rolled over 
for air. Koltuniak tabled 
for top pair.
and Smith led for 6,200. Kost folded and Smith received one caller. The 
fell on the turn and Smith continued for 8,000.
. "I though it was queen-three," his opponent said. Smith tabled 
, leaving his opponent drawing dead to a couple of threes. The 
fell on the turn and Smith's opponent was sent packing.
, 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 Nguyen's instincts proved true for the double up.
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.