Donnie Peters
James Burgoine hopes to run deep
James Burgoine raised with a short stack to 5,000. One player called--Michael Goldberg. The flop came and Goldberg checked. Burgoine thought for a moment and then moved all in for 27,200. Goldberg thought and said, "I call. I'm drawing, though."
This was somewhat good news for Burgoine, as he had a better draw: for Burgoine and for Goldberg. The turn was the and gave Burgoine the better flush. The river was the and Burgoine showed some rare emotion, smiling as he raked in the chips.
We've just lost one player, Jonas Entin. He had and flopped an ace, but his opponent, who held two queens, turned a third queen and Entin was eliminated.
Alas, we're still on the bubble. Now, in fact, there are 79 players remaining. Tourney staff began playing hand for hand when we were two off of the bubble, not one, apparently because they had noticed players already beginning to stall.
Donnie Peters
We're one player to the money and Fredrik Halling just arrived. When asked where he's been, he mentioned that he was sleeping and that he almost stayed up all night.
Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken has still yet to arrive and has 28,000 chips sitting on the table being blinded away.
We're still hand for hand. Staff has paused the tourney clock for now, so even though we've been playing over an hour, Level 11 continues, with blinds of 800/1,600 and 200 antes.
No sitting around waiting for the bubble to burst for Jason Gray. Gray raised from middle position with , a player in the blinds reraised him with , Gray reraised all in and was called.
The board ran out , and Gray survives. He's up to 85,000.
Donnie Peters
Bryan Pope stood up from his chair during hand for hand play and when he came back, sat down at a different table. Pope didn't realize he was at another table until he went to grab his chips after a minute and realized that the stack wasn't his.
James Burgoine just avoided becoming the bubble boy -- for now, anyway. He shoved his last chips with and got called by Michael Goldberg, who held . Fortunately for Burgoine, a trey flopped and his hand held up.
and Goldberg checked. Burgoine thought for a moment and then moved all in for 27,200. Goldberg thought and said, "I call. I'm drawing, though."
for Burgoine and 
for Goldberg. The turn was the 
and gave Burgoine the better flush. The river was the 
and Burgoine showed some rare emotion, smiling as he raked in the chips.
and flopped an ace, but his opponent, who held two queens, turned a third queen and Entin was eliminated.
and Eduard Scharf bet out 5,000. Andrey Zaichenko raised to 12,000. and Scharf called.
and Scharf check-called a bet of 12,000 from his opponent.
for a rivered pair of tens and Scharf mucked in disgust.
, a player in the blinds reraised him with 
and got called by Michael Goldberg, who held 
. Fortunately for Burgoine, a trey flopped and his hand held up.
