From the cutoff, Ronnie "RoNasty" Bardah raised and the big blind called. The first three cards in the middle were dealt . The big blind checked, Bardah bet, the big blind raised, and then Bardah made it three bets. The player called.
The turn brought the and it was checked to Bardah. He fired a bet and his opponent folded. "You've check-raised me four times and every time I've folded on the turn!" announced Bardah.
On a flop of , Vanessa Rousso was check-called by her opponent. The turn came the and the opponent led into her with a bet. Rousso called. The river was the and Rousso quickly said "I call!" when her opponent bet.
"King!" said the player as he turned up .
"Ahh, why do you always have it!" exclaimed Rousso as she mucked her cards, dropping to 3,000 chips.
Brock Parker bet the flop of after his two opponents checked to him. Only one of them made the call. The turn came the and action checked to Parker again. Again he bet and the player called.
After the river fell the , both players checked. Parker showed after his opponent showed and won the hand. He is now at 16,000 chips.
Ronnie Bardah has been slaughtered over the past couple levels and dropped all the way down to under 2,000 chips. He battled back though and stayed patient enough that he eventually picked up two black aces and won a huge pot. The pot not only brought him back up to over 14,000, but it also netted him some pocket change.
Bardah and the rest of the table agreed that if someone gets aces and wins with them, it's worth $100 from each person. Bardah did just that and while raking in the pot, found a few hundred dollar bills among the chips. Not a bad deal.
One player in the tournament has been telling his table mates that this is his first tournament ever. He was looking for some advice and turned around to try and get Hoawrd Lederer's attention one table over.
"Hey Howard, this is my first tournament, you have any advice?" he asked.
"Yeah, I've got some advice. If you're at the bar and she's being really nice to you, she's a pro." responded Lederer.
The players in this tournament all seem to agree that the speed of a limit tournament is just awesome. As Daniel Negreanu put it, "There's no tanking every three hands, checking your cards, asking how much someone has, playing with chips, it's just ram and jam." The numbers are dropping rapidly and we're already under 200 players left in the field.
Jimmy Tran - 22,000
Gavin Griffin - 17,000
Tom Schneider - 13,000
Daniel Negreanu - 11,000
Joe Cassidy - 11,000
Mark Newhouse - 10,000
Stefan Rapp - 9,500
David Gee - 9,000
Andy Bloch - 7,000
Ronnie "RoNasty" Bardah - 1,500