Action folded to a short-stacked Charles Tidmarsh who shoved for 22,500 on the button. Gerald Lee sweated his cards in the small blind and tanked for a minute or two before calling. The big blind released and the hands were tabled:
A short-stacked player moved all in from the button for about 10,000, and Alex Bolotin made the call from the big blind with the bigger stack. The shorty turned up , and he was in bad shape to stay alive against Bolotin's dominating .
The board came , no help for the at-risk player, and that knockout pot moves Bolotin up to 74,000.
Tom Dwan has been playing Event #14, the $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 event during the dinner break, and he's just come running back over from Blue to Red to play a hand. When he arrived at his table, the dealer was just mucking his dead hand, and Dwan turned right around and sprinted back to Blue to play a hand of lowball.
Online isn't the only place you can multi-table come WSOP time.
Carl Merkling and Jessica Dawley tangled up in a preflop raising war that left Merkling all in for about 55,000, and Dawley making the call to put his tournament life on the line and a pot of about 110,000 chips up for grabs:
Merkling:
Dawley:
There was no funny stuff on the board of , and Merkling snags his double up. Dawley has now slipped down around into his chip range with 115,000 left in her stack.