Andy Frankenberger's stack is going in the wrong direction.
Andy Frankenberger's stack has been dwindling in the late stages of play. He just opened for 2,600 in middle position and got three callers. The flop came and action checked around to Frankenberger and he bet 3,000. Two players folded and the last to act shoved for 8,675. Frankenberger called and the hands were tabled.
Frankenberger:
Opponent:
The board completed and Frankenberger shipped a bunch of chips across the table. He's down to around the starting stack.
Chris Bigler open-shoved for under 10,000 from under the gun, Eugene Fouksman re-shoved from middle position, and a third player tank-called from the big blind having both Bigler and Fouksman covered.
Showdown
Bigler
Fouksman
Big Blind
The flop gave Fouksman a commanding lead, and he held as the turn and river came , respectively. Bigler was eliminated from the tournament, while Fouksman nearly tripled his stack to around 40,000 chips.
Day 1a of the World Series of Poker Circuit Caesar's Palace Atlantic City has come to a close and just over 200 players remain of the 375 that began the day. Aaron Overton sits securely as the chipleader with 130,600.
Chasing Overton are Daniel Buzgon, Jeremy Halaska and Alex Queen. Others advancing to Day 2 include Roland Israel, Dwyte Pilgrim, Sirous Jamshidi, Abraham Araya, Wendeen Eolis, Aaron Massey, Paul Volpe, Anthony Gregg, "Karate" Mike Santoro, Garry Gates, Andy Frankenberger, Lee Childs, Mike Sica and "Miami" John Cernuto.
Not all players were so lucky; Matthew Chang, Ari Engel, Jeffrey Papola, Chris Bigler, Kurt Jewell, Chris Tryba and Jacob Bazeley all busted today. We expect to see them all back here for Day 1b.
The surviving players will return for Day 2 tomorrow and will join the survivors of Day 1b at 12 noon EST. We're taking a dinner break for now and will return at 7 p.m. EST for the second flight. Follow all the WSOPC action live on Pokernews.com
The cards are in the air for the start of Day 1b. The board shows that 174 players have registered thus far but a large percentage of that number hasn't shown up yet.
So far we've only noticed Chris Tryba, Roland Israel and Jerry Monroe as notable players on their second bullet.
A player limped in late position, and Ari Engel raised to 350 near the button. The action folded to the limper who called, and the dealer fanned . The limper checked, Engel continued for 300, and the limper check-raised to 1,125. Engel three-bet to 2,275, and his opponent mucked.
Chris Klodnicki slipped to 11,000 in the middle of Level 1, and minutes ago he was eliminated from the tournament.
We didn't catch the hand, but we heard a gentleman screaming from across the room, and when we turned to examine the scene we saw Klodnicki grab his bag and exit stage left.