Tournament Director Bill Bruce has announced that the Choctaw Casino and Resort will be awarding each final table player a Choctaw branded fleece jacket. Considering the limited apparel poker players seem to have when they travel, it is a first-class gift for the players that have spent countless hours in the resort for the Circuit event.
Abraham Araya just found a way to stop Derek Browning: Outflop him.
After Jack Miller opened up the pot with a 125k raise under the gun, Araya shipped it in from the cutoff for 1.485 million.
Browning counted out a call and after a few minutes deep in thought, made one. Miller mucked and yet another race was on with Araya's needing some help against Browning's .
Help came on the flop and the turn and river didn't hurt, knocking Browning from his five-million chip perch and putting Araya up near the top of the counts.
Will Nguyen limped in from under the gun and the blinds came along - Derek Browning and Justin Gardenhire. The flop came and action checked to Nguyen - who bet 80,000. Browning called and Gardenhire folded. The turn came and Browning check-called 135,000. The river brought the and Browning check-called 350,000.
Nguyen turned up and Browning tabled . Nguyen took the pot and Browning said, "You're lucky that ten came."
Drew Dumanski was short on chips from the previous hand and moved all in preflop for around 260,000. Daniel Lowery raised behind him to 560,000 to isolate Dumanski. Jack Miller was in the big blind and thought long and hard about a call, but folded after a moment.
Lowery:
Dumanski:
The board ran and Lowery's ace-high flush eliminated Dumanski.
The final ten players have taken their seats at the feature table on the stage. They've seen a couple flops so far but no significant action has taken place.