Theodore Korolchuk opened with a raise in late position, and Will Souther made the call from the small blind.
Heads up, then, the flop came out , and Souther checked. Korolchuk followed up his preflop aggression with a postflop bet, and Souther check-raised all in for 150,000. Korolchuk had the covering stack, and he called to put his man to the test. Souther, though, had played it craftily:
Korolchuk:
Souther:
The turn and river did nothing to dampen Souther's double up, and he's back in this thing. Mark him down for about 375,000 now, some talkin' chips for the gregarious "Poker Monkey".
Kevin Calenzo's run for back-to-back-to-back final tables in WSOP Circuit Main Events has come to an end in 21st place. Calenzo shoved all in for 316,000 from middle position and the terminator Kurt Jewell reraised all in from the button. Everyone folded and it was Calenzo on the line with the flipping against the two black nines for Jewell.
The flop came down and Calenzo added a straight draw along with his two overcards. The turn brought the and now a ten would also do it and counterfeit Jewell's hand. The river couldn't find any of the outs Calenzo needed when the fell and he was finished. Jewell stacked up the chips and moved to 3.4 million, still leading the way.
With this finish, Calenzo earned 10 points for the National Championship leader board and has leaped past Shiva Dudani to take the lead. Two final tables and a 21st-place finish worth over $10,000 is quite an amazing run Calenzo has had in these Circuit Main Events and we'll see if he can keep it going in a couple days when the Regional Championship kicks off.
Bryan Devonshire opened with a raise from the cutoff seat, and Ross Keiser three-bet from the small blind. Devonshire moved all in over the top, and Keiser tanked and called all in for his last 433,000. Cards up, gents:
Devonshire:
Keiser:
"Nice slowroll," Devonshire said, smirking. Keiser apologized profusely, but Devonshire just kepy smiling and said, "I'm just busting your balls, man. Nice hand."
There was trouble on the flop for the at-risk player, though, as it came to vault Devonshire into a big lead. The turn left Keiser dead to seven outs, and that would be plenty. The peeled off on the river, and Keiser re-sucked to take down the pot and earn the double up. He's up to 900,000 now, still trailing Devonshire's 965,000 by a bit.
Joseph Roppolo has been eliminated. He got his last 455,000 in with the against Kurt Jewell's . Jewell and Roppolo battled in a few big pots today, but this time there was nothing left in front of Roppolo after the board ran out . Jewell has a ton of chips now and is sitting right at three million.
We missed the action on the hand while watching the massive pot that just went down with Casey Hayes and Edwin Choi, but Kim Schinco has been eliminated in 23rd place. There is now only one woman remaining and that's former Loose Cannon on The Big Game, Nadezhda Magnus.
The largest pot of the tournament just went down and it involved Edwin Choi and Casey Hayes. We picked up the action on the turn with the board reading . When we got to the table, here's what we saw: John Farmakoulas had 150,000 laid out in front of him, Hayes had raised to 480,000 and Choi had moved all in for 991,000. Farmakoulas folded and got out of the way, but then Hayes made the call after tanking for a bit.
When the hands were turned over, it was a flush-over-flush situation which had Choi sitting pretty. He held the against the for Hayes.
The river completed the board with the and kept Choi's flush the best hand. He was able to double up to over two million in chips while Hayes was knocked all the way down to 700,000.
Theodore Korolchuk called the all-in shove from Ross Keiser with the . Keiser held two jacks. The jacks held after a board of and Korolchuk was knocked down to about 210,000.
On the very next hand, Korolchuk moved all in from the button and Will "Monkey" Souther called from the big blind. Korolchuk held the and Souther the .
The board ran out to give Korolchuk a straight on the turn and double him back up to about 440,000.
Down in the danger zone around 15bb, Brent Wheeler open-shoved with . It might have worked if Josh Kay hadn't woken up with in the next seat over. Kay called though, and Wheeler was going to need to improve to stay alive.
He could not. The board ran , and that's all she wrote for Wheeler.
Daniel McGuire has been short-stacked literally the entire tournament. He went to dinner break today with just 18,000, but he soon worked it back over 100,000 and then some. Finally, though, he has been put out of his misery (though he was far from miserable at the table). It was Edwin Choi who got him, the young man calling the all in with . McGuire was in good shape with .
The flop came out to pair Choi, and McGuire could not rally to find an out card on the turn or river. A few of the other players in the field came over to give their consolations to McGuire, but it was a fine show he put on this week. He'll take home about $7,500 for his work here in Hammond.
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, and Souther checked. Korolchuk followed up his preflop aggression with a postflop bet, and Souther check-raised all in for 150,000. Korolchuk had the covering stack, and he called to put his man to the test. Souther, though, had played it craftily:
and river 
did nothing to dampen Souther's double up, and he's back in this thing. Mark him down for about 375,000 now, some talkin' chips for the gregarious "Poker Monkey".
and Calenzo added a straight draw along with his two overcards. The turn brought the 
and now a ten would also do it and counterfeit Jewell's hand. The river couldn't find any of the outs Calenzo needed when the 
fell and he was finished. Jewell stacked up the chips and moved to 3.4 million, still leading the way.
to vault Devonshire into a big lead. The turn 
left Keiser dead to seven outs, and that would be plenty. The 
. Jewell has a ton of chips now and is sitting right at three million.
. When we got to the table, here's what we saw: John Farmakoulas had 150,000 laid out in front of him, Hayes had raised to 480,000 and Choi had moved all in for 991,000. Farmakoulas folded and got out of the way, but then Hayes made the call after tanking for a bit.
against the 
for Hayes.
and Korolchuk was knocked down to about 210,000.
.
, and that's all she wrote for Wheeler.
to pair Choi, and McGuire could not rally to find an out card on the turn or river. A few of the other players in the field came over to give their consolations to McGuire, but it was a fine show he put on this week. He'll take home about $7,500 for his work here in Hammond.
