"He slow rolled me with ace king of clubs," said Allen Kessler after he was collecting the pot after a double up.
Kessler had gotten all in with pocket eights and Bill Romer called with .
"It was a misdeal, I usually never play misdeals," said Kessler. Referring to the hand before this one that was misdealt and led him to getting the eights.
"I never win these," said Kessler.
As the board ran out , a player at the table turned to Kessler.
"Never huh," he said as the dealer pushed the pot to Kessler.
"I finally have chips, I haven't had chips all day," Kessler said. Kessler is certainly hoping this is the start of a big upswing, but only time will tell.
Both Allen Kessler and Leroy Dubray have been steadily near the starting stack all day. Kessler has started to dip a little and Dubray has seen a slight up tick. On these two hands, both players were under the gun.
Leroy Dubray raised to 3,800 under-the-gun with the blinds at 400/800. No one wanted to contest Dubray's raise and he won the blinds and antes.
Allen Kessler shoved under-the-gun for his last 9,525 and that was enough to get through, as everyone folded. Kessler added the blinds and antes to his stack and is back over 10,000. That will leave him around 12 big blinds when the players get back from break.
Mark Hodge has been eliminated from the MSPT Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells Main Event. The player chasing him on the MSPT Player of the Year leaderboard is MSPT Pro Blake Bohn.
Bohn is on his third bullet, but still alive with 16,000.
Three players saw the flop after Josh Reichard raised to 2,400 preflop. The flop came and both callers checked to Reichard who was last to act. He bet 3,600 and was check-raised to 10,000. The next player folded and Reichard wasted little time before shoving all in.
His opponent waited for a count and then called, showing . Reichard turned over and just needed to dodge an ace or running straight cards. The turn was the and the river was the , giving Reichard the pot and the double up.
Nick Stone reraised Aaron Johnson all in preflop. Johnson initially made it 1,700 to go before Stone shoved his remaining 6,275 into the pot going all in.
Johnson thought for a few moments and then settled on calling and showed . Stone showed and began standing up as though he expected to lose.
The board came out and Stone took his seat after he doubled up.
Mark Kroon is among the chip leaders, after being down to less than 4,000 early in the day.
Bruce "Hammer" Swart proudly exclaimed that he is the green-chip leader, but that might not be true. The floor is about to color up and one player at every table is buying up greens. He does have a lot though.
Kou Vang and John Kurfman just got all in with one other player. After it was all said and done, Kurfman would triple up and eliminate one player. Vang would be left with just less than ten big blinds.
The board read and Vang bet 3,100. The next player in raised to 6,600 and Kurfman made it 12,500. Vang tanked for a little then shoved, the original raiser called and so did Kurfman.
Vang showed and was on a flush draw, with a pair. The raiser had and Kurfman had for a flopped wheel. The board didn't bring a flush and Kurfman would win the hand.
and Bill Romer called with 
.
, a player at the table turned to Kessler.
. Reichard turned over 
and the river was the 
, giving Reichard the pot and the double up.
. Stone showed 
and began standing up as though he expected to lose.
and Stone took his seat after he doubled up.
and Vang bet 3,100. The next player in raised to 6,600 and Kurfman made it 12,500. Vang tanked for a little then shoved, the original raiser called and so did Kurfman.
and Kurfman had 
for a flopped wheel. The board didn't bring a flush and Kurfman would win the hand.
