Robert Mizrachi
Over on the ESPN Feature Table, Robert Mizrachi opened the pot for 2,800 and the button called. The flop was . Mizrachi led for 5,700, the button raised to 25,000, Mizrachi moved all in and the button called. Mizrachi showed and the button turned over for the nut flush draw. The turn with the , making top set for Mizrachi, and the river was the .
Eric Clarke, member of Team Pokernews, has just been eliminated. Clarke was on the button and saw a flop of while holding . All the money went in on the flop against a single opponent, who turned over pocket jacks.
Clarke was drawing to a gutshot straight as well as a queen high flush. He made his flush on the turn, and thought he just had to dodge the board pairing. The river was the fourth jack, giving his opponent quads, and Clarke was eliminated.
The first player who occupied that seat busted out early today, and then a new player was moved there. A few hands later he pushed in the last of his chips with Q-9. And ran into Aces. He caught a nine on the turn but didn't get any additional help and was busted.
"Could you move someone there with about 40,000?" Raymond Davis asked the floor. Davis and the player in the 8 seat have been bantering back and forth and Davis suggested his tablemate might be more comfortable moving one seat to his right. Into the Dead Zone of Seat 9.
Tournament staff have just announced that players will be playing a total of five rounds of play today. For Day 1, players played six rounds, lasting until roughly 4am PDT. Today should be much shorter, ending closer to 2am.
We've asked Harrah's floor staff what happens if the field narrows down to roughly 300-400 players and were told that it's unlikely to drop that far today. There have been a high amount of eliminations thus far, and we've yet to hit the first break. We will continue to watch eliminations closely and it will be interesting to see just how many players survive Day 2a.
With the board reading , Jacobs threw out a 15,000 bet. "Do you really have pocket Jacks...or pocket Sixes..." his opponent mused, before raising an additional 15K. Jacobs called and his opponent turned over pocket Tens for the boat. Jacobs tossed his cards in the muck but said he had an Ace-high flush, and that loss took his stack down to 143,000.
With the final board showing and about 17,500 in the pot, Alex Kravchenko checks, Jared 'Waco Kid' Hamby bets 19,000, and Kravchenko goes into the tank before making what appears to be a big laydown. Hamby collects the pot, and Kravchenko is obviously curious as to what Hamby had.
When he's done restacking his chips, Hamby lets him off the hook, saying, "Full house. I had a full house."
On a board reading , a middle-position player bet 4,000, Doug Kim moved all in for 9,900, and his opponent called. Kim flipped over while his opponent was behind with the . The river was the and Kim doubled up to 22,000.
A player moves all in from the button for 18,000, and Patrik Antonius calls all in from the big blind for 17,500 with . His opponent shows , and it's a race situation.
The board comes , and Antonius's pocket tens hold up to win the pot. Antonius doubles up to about 37,500 in chips.
Paul Wasicka doubled up when he found in the small blind. His opponent raised from the cutoff and he moved all in. His opponent called with . Wasicka's Aces held up and he increased his stack to 23K.