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Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Total Entries
926
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 926
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Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The players are on a one-hour dinner break. The registration period will remain open until the start of the next level.
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
On the river, the board read 
and Dan Lowery was all in on the button for about 14,000. A player in the cutoff had bet 6,000 and was in the tank. He eventually settled on a call, and Lowery tabled 
, confident his top two were a winner. However, the cutoff showed 
for a straight.
"That's a nice hand," Lowery said with a sigh as he headed for the exit.
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Omar Zazay was all in with Brandon Steven preflop. He showed Steven two queens.
"Well I got two unders," Steven said presenting 
.
Steven didn't catch up, in fact, he got counterfeited by the board as it ran out 
.
A couple hands later at the same table, Gregg Merkow doubled up with 
against pocket nines when he flopped a pair and turned two pair.
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
A player was all in for about 10,000 when we got to Grant Hinkle's table, and the WSOP bracelet winner, who chopped this event last year, put his stack of 12,000 in from the cutoff. Everyone else mucked.
Hinkle: 
Opponent: 
The 
flop gave Hinkle a stranglehold with top pair and a flush draw, and the turn and 
river changed nothing.
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Nipun Java saw the flop with two other players for 3,500.
The flop came 
and all three players checked. The turn was the and the first player to act led for 8,000. Java called.
The river was the 
and Java's opponent led again, immediately going all in.
Right after he heard the words all in, Java's chips beat his opponents into the pot and he turned over 
. His opponent tossed his hand into the muck and headed to the rail.
The dealer revealed the mucked hand since the player was all in and showed .
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Chris Staats opened for 2,000 and got one caller before Greg Himmelbrand made it 8,000 to go. Big blind Mike Dentale asked to see Himmelbrand's stack and then repopped to 20,000. Action folded to Himmelbrand, and he counted his stack down and then went all in for about 34,000. Dentale quickly called and wasn't happy at showdown.
Himmelbrand:
Dentale: 
"You slowroll me like that?" Dentale groaned.
"You cold four-bet!" Himmelbrand replied with a laugh.
The board looked clean for Himmelbrand as it ran out 
but a 
river sent him to the exits.
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
AJ Nimer was one of five players who called an early position raised to 2,200. Six players saw the 
flop and the preflop raiser was the first to bet, making it 7,300 before Nimer raised to 17,000. The action folded back to the preflop raiser who took about a minute before folding.
Nimer said she could pick one card to look at and she flipped over the .
"That's what I thought you had I should have called," she said as Nimber collected the pot.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
