was dominated by Beckman's 
and the 
flop put Beckman way in the lead and the 
on the turn sealed the deal. He doubled to close to one million.
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was dominated by Beckman's and the flop put Beckman way in the lead and the on the turn sealed the deal. He doubled to close to one million.
On the first hand, Branciforte had
vs. Valikoski's 
. The board came A-6-J-J-9, and they chopped.On the next one, Branciforte was again dominated preflop with
against Valikoski's . This time the flop was 
, giving Valikoski trips. But the 
and 
river gave both players Broadway and yet another chop.Branciforte hangs on with 197,000.
on the turn, Petteri Pirinen led out for 200,000, Alfredo Fernandez moved all in and Pirinen snap-called. Fernandez turned up
and was relieved to see Pirinen's 
after he had called so quickly. "Dude, I swear to God I thought he had a nine. I was going to start crying," said Fernandez.
The river was the
. Fernandez's aces and nines were the better two pair and Pirinen was eliminated in 102nd place. After the hand, Fernandez was up to 2,100,000.
The next hand Matusow was the preflop raiser making it 60,000 to go. Phi Nguyen made the call. They saw a flop of
and Matusow takes down the pot with a continuation bet of 70,000."Wow I won two pots in a row! That's scary!" said Matusow as he now sits behind about 650,000 in chips.
The flop came
. Byard checked, Crilly bet 300,000, Byard reraised to 600,000, and Crilly pushed all in for about 1.9 million total. Byard, who had about one million going into the hand, made the call.Byard:
Crilly:
The turn was the
and river the 
, and the two chopped the enormous pot."This is a tough way to split the blinds," cracked Byard afterwards.
against the of Paul Snead but came up short when the board ran out 
.
[Removed:550]:
Dragomir:
The board ran out
and [Removed:550] spiked a jack on the flop to double up to about 480,000 in chips.
When asked if he'd found the right combination yet he said no, but he'll have more design options, "When I get more chips."
It's not all bad news, of course. At this point of the tournament, a player who busts out is guaranteed $51,466. The floor who oversaw the all in radios the bustout to the central podium. A runner is then sent to the table, who directs the busted player to the central podium.
At the podium, the recently departed gives in his or her TotalRewards card and photo ID. As one supervisor enters the information, including place of finish, into the computer, another announces the name and hometown of the busted player over the PA system in the Amazon Room. After this process is completed, the player receives a small slip of paper with his or her name and place of finish on it. The slip is initialled by one of the floor supervisors.
The runner then takes the player out of the Amazon Room, across the hall, and down a side hallway to the payouts room. The payouts room feels like the waiting area inside of an unemployment center, with a front desk, several waiting chairs behind it (in case of a high volume of bustouts) and several computer terminals and printers behind that. The player gives in his "finish slip" and TotalRewards card again at the front desk, is asked for a taxpayer ID number, and then is directed to one of the computer terminals.
Another Harrah's representative is waiting at each terminal. They provide various tax forms that have to be filled out and also create a tournament payout receipt showing the player's name, address, certain personal identifying information and the amount of money the player has won.
Once all of those forms are completed, there's one more stop -- the payout cage, located inside the same room. There, at one of five barred windows, players can elect to receive their winnings in any combination of cash, chips, check, wire transfer and/or front money deposit at the Rio.
It's a long process, but there is a certain comaraderie in the room. Everyone who is in there has arrived in the same condition -- busted out of the largest, richest poker tournament in the world. Once the initial feelings of disappointment evaporate, many swap stories with each other, congratulate each other, and begin the celebration of a five- or six-figure payday.
