Level: 25
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Level: 25
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Tim Hughes opened for 28,000 from early position and then called when Blair Hinkle three-bet to 55,000 from the button. Both players checked the ![]()
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flop, the dealer burned and turned the
, and Hinkle called a bet of 60,000 from Hughes. Both players returned to checking on the
river and Hughes tabled the ![]()
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Sean Small has just taken a huge hit to his previously-second-place stack.
Small opened for 29,000 in middle position, and Brendan Waite, in the cutoff, three-bet him for the second straight hand. Small was ready with a four-bet this time, to 190,000. Waite tanked before calling. The players took in a ![]()
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flop, and both checked. The turn paired the board with the
, and Small checked once again. Waite bet 118,000, and Small put him all in for 334,000 total. Waite instantly called, and his hand set off murmurs from the railbirds.
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Small had no outs, and his stack has dropped to 418,000, while Waite sits with over a million.
Grant Hinkle opened for 30,000 from early position only to have Sterling
Savill, who was seated to his immediate left, three-bet to 57,000. Action folded back around to Hinkle and he made the call before checking the ![]()
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flop. Savill continued for 61,000 and Hinkle thought for a bit before announcing that he was all in. Savill, who had 259,000, couldn't call fast enough.
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Savill was ahead with two pair, but Hinkle was drawing to a double-gutted straight draw. The
turn meant another on the river would also give Hinkle the win, but it wasn't in the cards as the harmless
peeled off.
In the last hand before the break, Andrew Leshovsky managed to double through Brendan Waite.
We caught the action with around 60,000 in the pot and a board reading ![]()
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. Waite had checked from the big blind, Leshovsky bet 25,000 from the hijack, and Waite woke up with a check-raise to 95,000. Leshovsky proceeded to move all in for 146,000 and Waite was hesitant but made the call nonetheless.
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Waite needed either a king or five on the river to eliminate Leshovsky, but it wasn't in the cards as the
blanked on the river.
@MasonHinkle @blur5f6 @GrantHinkle @WSOP @wsopc @PokerNews http://t.co/962GneJ2yAApril 21 2013Follow
Level: 24
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 23 has come to an end, and that means it's time for the last 15-minute break of the day. When the players return, they'll play two more levels before calling it a night.