Nick Jivkov raised to 15,000 and then Mimi Roeder reraised all in from the big blind for 71,000. Jivkov made the call, but his 
was dominated by the 
for Roeder.
The board ran out 
and Roeder won the hand to double up. "Party in my pants!" she yelled out after winning. She's back to about 155,000 while Jivkov dropped to 510,000.
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First in from the button, Adam Sporinsky open-shoved for the 115,000 he had left. Next door in the small blind, Kathy Liebert made the call to put him at risk, but Richard Rockwood wasn't going anywhere either. From the big blind, Rockwood said, "All right, I call all in, too," committing his last 149,000 as well. Liebert had them both covered, and the cards were on their backs:
Sporinsky: 
Liebert: 
Rockwood: 
"Well there's an ace," Liebert said as the dealer ran out a flop of 
. The turn 
didn't change a thing, and the river 
would not save either of the two at-risk players either. Liebert's top pair earns her the double knockout, and she's chipped all the way up to 480,000 in the process.
Daniel Cohen limped in from early position before Will "Monkey" Souther raised to 25,000 from the hijack seat. Nadezhda Magnus called from the cutoff seat, Eli Loewenthal called from the big blind and then Cohen also called.
The flop came down 
and action checked to Souther. He fired all in for 118,000 and everyone folded, giving him the pot. Souther showed the 
.
On the flop of 
, Nick Jivkov check-called a bet of 44,000 from National Championship points leader Shiva Dudani. The turn brought the and both players checked. The river then completed the board with the 
and Jivkov fired 60,000. Dudani folded and dropped back to 220,000. Jivkov improved back to 580,000.
Dudani is the points leader in the race to the National Championship that will be held in Las Vegas before the 2011 World Series of Poker. Dudani has less points than Charles "Woody" Moore, but Moore has already locked up a seat after he won the last WSOP Circuit Main Event in Southern Indiana, so he's guaranteed a slot. Dudani isn't and his next closest competitor is Kevin Calenzo. Dudani leads Calenzo by only 2.5 points, 147.5 to 145.
Both are still alive here and have been crushing the WSOP Circuit events this season. Calenzo is working on making his third Main Event final table if he can get there here in Hammond. He final tabled the first two in Council Bluffs and Southern Indiana already. He has four Circuit cashes totaling over $78,000. Dudani has one gold ring and four cashes to his name this season with nearly $70,000 in winnings.
Nadezhda Magnus moved all in for 89,000 before the flop, and she found action from Daniel Cohen. He made the call from the blinds, announcing, "I just have fives," as he turned up 
. Cohen frowned and showed her , racing for a double up.
And a double up she would receive. Cohen was already lamenting, "I never win these," as the flop came 
. "I never win these," he repeated. The turn and river were the and 
respectively, and the table complimented Magnus on her double up. She's back up over 170,000 now, dropping Cohen down to just 65,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
760,000
295,000
|
295,000 |
|
580,000 | |
|
||
|
480,000
-117,000
|
-117,000 |
|
470,000
270,000
|
270,000 |
|
|
390,000
234,500
|
234,500 |
|
|
360,000
204,100
|
204,100 |
|
340,000
176,000
|
176,000 |
|
|
335,000
177,000
|
177,000 |
|
325,000
226,800
|
226,800 |
|
|
286,000
211,800
|
211,800 |
|
265,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
260,000
260,000
|
260,000 |
|
254,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
|
|
240,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
|
|
225,000
168,100
|
168,100 |
|
195,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
195,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
|
185,000
100,700
|
100,700 |
|
180,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
155,000
-12,100
|
-12,100 |
|
145,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
|
125,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
120,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
||
|
100,000
-30,500
|
-30,500 |
|
70,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Level: 21
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
William Reynolds raised to 20,000 from early position and was called by the man he has been butting heads with all day, Nick Jivkov. The flop came down 
and Jivkov check-called a bet of 27,000 from Reynolds.
The turn brought the and Jivkov checked again. Reynolds fired 78,000 and Jivkov check-raised all in after tanking for a couple of minutes. Reynolds folded and the massive explosion of chips would have to wait for another time. These two have been battling all day and combined have at least a million in chips. It's only a matter of time before that one massive hand comes up with all the head butting they've been doing today.
We arrived too late to see all of the significant action, though there was a bunch of it. Here's what we know: Joseph Roppolo had raised preflop, and he had been three-bet by Josh Kay, his fellow big stack across the table.
The two men went heads up to a jack-high flop with two rags, and Roppolo took the betting lead with 40,000. Kay promptly raised to 120,000 total, and Roppolo made the call. Both men check-checked another rag apiece on the turn and river, and Roppolo turned over queen-jack for top pair. It was good; Kay mucked his cards back to the dealer, and the pot that was pushed to Roppolo gives his chip lead a bit of a cushion. In fact, he's the first player over the million-chip mark as well; we count him at about 1.05 million now.
Action folded to Brett Richey in the cutoff seat and he jammed all in for a little bit less than 100,000. Matt Brady reshoved from the button and that two blinds got out of the way. Nick Jivkov folded 
in the big blind and the small blind claimed to fold 
.
Richey held a dominated to Brady's 
. The board ran through 
and Richey hit the rail. Brady saw his chip stack swell to 280,000 at a table where there are plenty of chips in play.
