Bryan Micon is down to about 65,000 chips after Jeffrey Chu spiked a brutal river card. Jeffrey Chu moved all in pre-flop with . Micon made an easy call with . Everything looked great for Micon on a flop of and a turn of . But the river fell a lucky for Chu to give him aces and tens. Micon was forced to pay off the double-up, moving Chu to about 60,000.
As the field returned from the break, we were unable to spot Steve Yea. It's getting harder for players to hide with only fourteen tables in action. He appears to have busted.
Timothy Adams was faced with a tough decision, to call or not to call. After raising to 6,000 from early position, the big blind, Ralph Ratchford, moved all in. Calling would put Adams' tournament life at risk.
What did Adams do? He called and put his remaining 46,000 in the pot.
Showdown
Adams:
Ratchford:
The flop paired Adams' 10 and he doubled up to 118,000. Ratchford saw his stack shrink to 115,000.
Win your flips and you'll do alright in tournament poker. Robert Williamson III and Lance Harris got the chips in on a flip, with Williamson's barely in the lead against Harris' . Williamson flopped a set, , and didn't have anything to sweat after the turn fell . The pot increased Williamson's count by about 15,000, while Harris headed to the payouts table.
PokerStars Team Pro Online, Jorge Arias, raises to 3,600 from the cutoff. The button, Ronald Grauer, re-raises to 8,800 and Arias calls.
The flop comes and both players check.
The turn brings a and a lot of action. Arias bets out 11,300 and Grauer tanks. After a minute he shoves all in for 22,700. Saying Arias snap called would be an understatement.
Before Grauer is even done pushing his chips in the pot, Arias had called and his was flipped over showing a set of fours. Grauer shows , and misses his two outer when the hits on the river and is eliminated.
Arias is now the chip leader at his table with 105,000.
There are two PokerStars' Team Pros that are still fighting their way through this six-handed event. JP Kelly, representing Team UK & Ireland, started the day with an above-average stack and hasn't made a ton of progress yet today. The same is true for Team Online player Jorge Arias, whose stack has been hovering right around 75,000 for the first 90 minutes that the field has been in action.
Kelly is no stranger to WSOP success. At the 2009 WSOP, he took down the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event, winning almost $200,000. He followed that win up with a win at the 2009 WSOP-Europe in GBP1,000 No-Limit Hold'em.
Arias has almost a dozen WSOP cashes but has never made a final table. It would be quite the feat for him if he could make his first final table in this event
2007 WSOP Main Event winner Jerry Yang has been eliminated by Conrad Monica. The two men, sitting in the blinds, took a limped flop of . Yang had first action and bet 4,000. Monica called.
When the turn came a seeming blank, the , Yang moved all in for about 27,000. It turned out that the turn wasn't such a blank after all. Monica clled with , having made a six-high straight. That left Yang's looking for a seven to chop or a club to win the whole pot. The river wasn't enough. He has been sent to the rail.
Mark Seif found himself in a pickle after Cort Kibler-Melby opened the button for 3,800. Seif, sitting in the small blind with , made a natural re-raise to 10,000. The problem for Seif was that big blind Daniel Quinn then moved all in behind Seif for another 36,300. Kibler-Melby quickly folded but Seif went for the knockout and called. Quinn turned up pocket jacks and secured a double-up on a board of .