[user76023]
Brock Parker raises to 55,000 but Alexander Wilson makes it 145,000 from the button. Clayton Newman tanks and then folds in the small blind and it's passed back to Parker who calls.
The flop is and both players check, they also check the on the turn before Parker checks a third time on the river. Wilson bets 190,000 and Parker quickly folds.
Shamus
Russell Crane
It folded to Russell Crane who moved all in from the small blind, and Brock Parker folded. Crane is hanging in there with about 530,000.
The 23-year-old New Jersey native Crane has a few cashes prior to today's event, the largest having been when he chopped a deep-stacked $2K tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City last fall for which he's listed as finishing third for a little over $64,000. He had his first WSOP cash a couple of weeks ago in the $1,000 NLHE "Stimulus Special" event in which he finished 78th.
Crane has been playing poker since 2003, and also enjoys chess, skateboarding, and golf.
[user76023]
Alexander Wilson raises to 55,000 from UTG and Joe Serock calls in the big blind. The flop comes , Serock checks and Wilson bets 80,000. Serock calls and the turn is the and Serock now leads for 180,000.
Wilson calls and they see a river of , Serock bets 525,000 now which represents a huge amount of Wilson's remaining stack. Wilson though calls and Serock is forced to show his semi-bluffing , Wilson wins with for a huge pot.
Shamus
Alex Wilson
After that last big call by Alex Wilson of Joe Serock, Wilson has closed the gap somewhat between himself and Serock, pushing up over 2 million while Serock slips back to 2.55 million.
Wilson is a 23-year-old native of Connecticut who biggest previous cash was at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic last February, where he earned $27,375 for a 51st place finish in the Main Event.
Wilson is staying in a house this summer with five other poker players, including, coincidentally, one of our other final tablists -- Clayton Newman!
Shamus
Jesse Rios open-raised to 80,000 from the button, then Russell Crane moved all in from the small blind for a total of 401,000. Rios made the call.
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Rios
The flop came , giving Crane two pair but Rios now had outs to Broadway. The turn was the , and the crowd oohed and aahed. Now Rios had more ways to better Crane's two pair. But the river was the , and Crane survived.
Crane is now up to 850,000, and Rios down to 725,000.
[user76023]
Upwards and onwards for Russell Crane, Joe Serock raised to 56,000 from early position but gave up after Crane made it 174,000 in the big blind. We started with one huge stack and two small stacks, but everyone is now getting closer together.
Shamus
Brock Parker
Brock "t soprano" Parker is the only WSOP bracelet holder at our final table today, having defeated Daniel Negreanu heads up in Event No. 14, the $2,500 Six-Handed limit hold'em event just a few days ago. If Parker does manage to win his second bracelet, that will make ten straight years there has been at least one multiple-bracelet winner at the WSOP, with 1999 being the last time it did not happen.
John Phan won two bracelets in 2008; Tom Schneider won two in 2007; Jeff Madsen and Bill Chen each won two in 2006; Mark Seif won two in 2005; Scott Fischman and Ted Forrest each won two in 2004; Johnny Chan, Layne Flack, Men Nguyen, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, and John Juanda each won two in 2003; Layne Flack won two in 2002, and Phil Ivey won three; Scotty Nguyen and Nani Dollison each won two in 2001; and Chris Ferguson won two in 2000.
Parker's bracelet win in Event No. 14 wasn't the first success the 27-year-old Maryland native has had at the WSOP, however.
He had a couple of near-misses previously, making final tables both at the $10,000 World Championship limit hold'em event in 2008 and a third-place finish at another limit hold'em shootout event at the 2003 WSOP. He now has over $410,000 in career tourney winnings, a total to which he'll be adding significantly today.