After busting Ylon Schwartz earlier, Emmanuel Vacakis has continued to trend up. He now sits with around 50,000 chips.
2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harveys Lake Tahoe
Robert Cheung opened to 1,250 from early position, a player on his left called, and the rest of the action behind folded.
The flop fell ![]()
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, and both players checked. The turn was the
, Cheong led for 1,250, and his opponent called.
The river was a third king - the
- and Cheung tossed out 1,950. Among the chips he bet was a pink T500 chip, which his opponent thought was a blue T5,000 chip. Mulling the decision over, he finally called, and was relieved to see that it was indeed a T500 chip.
Cheung tabled ![]()
for trip kings, and shook his head knowing that he could've gotten a bit more value from his hand.
Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
With the blinds at 50/100 in Day 1b, and the board reading ![]()
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, Kevin Calenzo fired 2,450. His opponent raised to 6,500, Calenzo re-raised, his opponent put him all in for a few thousand more, and Calenzo called.
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The
completed the board, and Calenzo doubled to around 45,000 chips.
After losing a few pots, Ryan Olisar found a monster double up through a player who had a straight flush draw. We're not sure when the chips went in the middle, but when we reached the table, the board was completed ![]()
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. Olisar held ![]()
for the nuts, and his opponent had ![]()
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Olisar is now back among our leaders with 72,000 chips.
Tommy Vedes has been eliminated from Day 1a of the Main Event. We're quite certain will find him in Day 1b shortly.
We unfortunately missed the details, but Jim Atwood recently eliminated "Captain" Tom Franklin. Franklin announced that he's "headed to the Bellagio," while Atwood's stack increased to around 45,000 chips.
Marty Wong doesn't seem to be oscillating much with his big stack. He currently sits with around 76,000 chips.
On one of the last hands of Level 7, Robert Marchi opened to 825 from under the gun. A player three-bet to 2,300 from middle position, and Robert "The Raven" Theobald cold-called from the big blind. Marchi called as well, and the flop came ![]()
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Theobald led out for 2,500, Marchi raised to 6,175, and the three-bettor folded. Theobald tanked for quite some time before moving all in for around 25,000, and Marchi snapped him off.
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Marchi flopped the stone-cold nuts, but the
ripped off on the turn, giving Theobald a full house. The
completed the board, and Theobald successfully doubled to around 60,000 chips.
Marchi slipped to around 12,000.