A tale of two chip stacks tell us that Aryeh Cohen entered the day as the chip leader with 180,00 and Kurt Jewell was a re-entry that began with a measly 20,000. Now the two are even in chips. Needless to say, it's been a good Day 2 for Jewell, and it got a little better after he took a decent pot off Cohen.
We caught the action with three players in the hand and around 20,000 in the pot on a board reading . A player in middle position had checked to Jewell, and he bet 11,500. Cohen called from the cutoff, the other player folded, and it was heads-up action to the river.
Jewell immediately slid out a big bet of 28,300 and Cohen hit the tank. Several minutes passed in which Cohen counted out chips and looked back at his cards, but ultimately he decided that folding was the thing to do.
"Did I give you too much credit?" Cohen asked after he sent his cards to the muck. There was no response.
So said Chris Vogel just now after surviving with a super-short stack with against the of Bobby Corcione. Corcione had min-raised to 4,000 from middle position, Vogel had shoved for nearly 12,000 from the big blind, Corcione called, and the board had rolled out to give Vogel extended tourney life.
After his minor celebration, Vogel began to apologize to Corcione but he smilingly said not to worry. "We've all had those days," said last year's 21st-place finisher in the WSOP Main Event.
A huge pot just went down at Table 16 between two of the top six chip stacks from the beginning of the day—Erek Gaines and Aryeh Cohen. The latter began as chip leader, but now he's sitting on a rather short stack.
It happened when Kurt Jewell opened the action with a raise to 4,200. Cohen responded with a three-bet to 12,500 from the hijack, the cutoff called, and then Gaines four-bet to 30,000 from the small blind. Jewell folded, Cohen shipped, and the cutoff got out of the way. Gaines, who had 109,400 total, called off.
Gaines:
Cohen:
Cohen was crestfallen upon seeing the cards and with good reason. According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, he had just an 18.23% chance of winning the hand. That dropped to 8.38% on the flop, and the turn knocked it down even further to 4.55%. Cohen needed a ten on the river to eliminate Gaines and take down the monster pot, but it wasn't in the cards as the peeled off.
Cohen was knocked down to approximately 45,000 on the hand while Gaines vaulted to 240,000. Meanwhile, Aaron Masey has been eliminated from the tournament.
The rise and fall of Aryeh Cohen is a tale of two days. Yesterday nothing could go wrong for Cohen as he amassed the biggest stack in the room, but now he is out less than two hours into Day 2.
Cohen was crippled after losing a huge pot to Gaines, and less than ten minutes later he was out the door. We didn't catch the hand, but someone at the table informed us that Cohen held middle pair and a flush draw and failed to get there again top pair with a king kicker.
David Paredes and Greg Raymer were just now involved in a preflop reraising battle in which Paredes was playing from the small blind and Raymer had the button. It appeared a Raymer open had been met with a Paredes reraise, then after the Fossilman fired back, Paredes pushed all in with the 50,000-plus he had behind.
Raymer thought out loud for two minutes before finally letting his hand go, and now Paredes has the chip advantage at Table 7.
Allen Kessler's Main Event run has come to an end as we approach the end of Level 15.
All in on his last hand with , Kessler had unfortunately run up against an opponent's , and when the board brought no improvement to Kessler's hand, he was eliminated.
Players are back in their seats and cards are once more in the air for Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Foxwoods Casino.
The big board is saying 153 players have returned to rejoin the battle, just over one quarter of the total number of entries for the event. We should have information regarding the overall prize pool and payouts some time this afternoon.
With Level 16 the levels are now extended to one hour in length. Players will play four more levels today before going on a dinner break.
So said Paul Snead matter-of-factly, who after open-raising from late position saw a short-stacked opponent push all in over his raise from the blinds. Snead thought a while longer, then finally called the reraise.
"Oh," said Snead with a little surprise as he tabled his , then saw that in fact he was ahead versus his opponent's .
The board rolled out , and Snead boosted his stack up over 100,000 as the total field size falls below 150 players.
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