Ronnie Bardah's first bullet of the day has ended. No idea if he'll be back for more but we'll let you know if he returns. Here are some chip counts from around the room:
2014 PPC Aruba World Championship
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Players are on a 10-minute break. There are currently 41 entrants for this flight with approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes left to register.
Todd Boghosian opened to 500 and found two callers to his immediate left. It was folded to Ronnie Bardah in the big blind who raised to 2,900. Boghosian thought for a moment and put in another raise to 5,500.
"What did you start the hand with Todd," Bardah asked his friend. "20?"
"17 maybe," answered Boghosian.
Bardah pushing his fist up against his chin, seeming a bit perplexed. "All in," he said after about 30 seconds. Boghosian instantly called and before he even turned his cards over Bardah said "I wanted to fold." He knew what Boghosian was about to turn over... ![]()
. Bardah tabled his own big pair, ![]()
. "I swear I wanted to fold. I almost just turned it over and said here take it."
Bardah shook his head, looked at the dealer, and joked "can I just fold now?"
"It's not over yet," said Boghosian.
"Naw, I'm not going to lay a beat on you," responded Bardah.
And he wouldn't, as the board would run out ![]()
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to give Boghosian the double up. "God, whatever," muttered a slightly frustrated Bardah.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante:
Ronnie Bardah and current PPC Player of the Year leader Parry Shaw have taken their seats. There are currently 39 entrants bringing our two day total to 135.
We got to the table in a three-bet pot pre-flop with three players each putting in 1,650. The flop came ![]()
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and John Keenan led out for 2,500 leading to a fold from the player in middle position. Marilyn Guess, on the cutoff, made the call.
The turn was the
and both players checked. They would do the same on the
river and Guess would take down the pot with her ![]()
.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante:
Mark Kroon came over and shared a good beat story.
"I went and ordered a drink from the bartender and he handed me this and told me I dropped it on the floor yesterday," said Kroon as he showed us a black $100 casino chip.
That's the kind of service you get here in Aruba and it left Kroon impressed.