Zero for Zolotow
Mike Wattel doubled through Steve Zolotow after drawing to a . Wattel moved up to 40,000, while Zolotow had been cut down to just 700 chips.
A hand later Zolotow was out, with Wattel again serving as his conqueror.
Mike Wattel doubled through Steve Zolotow after drawing to a . Wattel moved up to 40,000, while Zolotow had been cut down to just 700 chips.
A hand later Zolotow was out, with Wattel again serving as his conqueror.
Anton Allemann raised to 4,000 from the cutoff, and Daniel Negreanu called from the button. Then Erik Sagstrom shoved all in from the small blind. Allemann called, and Negreanu folded.
Sagstrom drew one card, while Allemann stood pat. Allemann showed he had a jack-low, and Sagstrom turned over his four original cards -- -- then squeezed the card he had drawn. Seeing it was no good, he mucked.
Sagstrom is out, while Allemann moves up to 160,000.
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 400
George Danzer opened with a raise in which Peter Gould made the call, before Michael Mizrachi raised an additional 10,000 more.
Danzer called and Gould folded as Mizrachi stood pat.
Danzer drew one, and after sweating out his final card, cut down a bet of 65,000 to effectively put Mizrachi all in.
After deliberating for several minutes, Mizrachi made the call, only to be shown the of Danzer.
As Mizrachi made his way to the rail, Danzer soared to 235,000 in chips.
Catching the action after the draw with Brandon Cantu all in, we found Vincent Musso standing pat with his .
Cantu drew one to his , but unfortunately paired up with a three to find himself on the rail as Musso climbs to 155,000 in chips.
David "Bakes" Baker opened for 3,500 from UTG, Jason Mercier called from one seat over, and it folded around to John Kabbaj in the small blind. Kabbaj thought a bit, then made it 15,500 to go.
Doyle Brunson seriously considered playing along from the big blind before folding. Then Baker pushed all in over the top for about 62,000 more. Mercier got out, and Kabbaj tanked for two minutes before letting it go.
Baker is now at 88,000, while Kabbaj still has 45,000.
Eli Elezra opened to 3,500 and both Billy Baxter and Nick Schulman made the call.
Schulman drew two, Baxter drew one and Elezra stood pat as the action was checked round.
Elezra announced he had a jack only to have Baxter quickly spread his to take down the pot and move to 66,000 in chips.
Barry Greenstein just doubled through Brandon Cantu, succesfully drawing to an -X-X-X to best Cantu's -X-X-X.
Greenstein pushes up to 60,000, while Cantu has 47,000.
Currently a glance at the top of the leaderboard shows two Team PokerStars pros at the top, with George Danzer of PokerStars Team Germany in first and Anton "A.Allemann" Allemann of PokerStars Team Switzerland in second. Danzer currently is leading the way with about 160,000, with Allemann his closest competitor with 125,000.
Their teammate Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu (of PokerStars Team Canada) has also moved into the top ten, having chipped up close to 100,000.
Other Team PokerStars pros still alive in this one are Barry "barryg1" Greenstein, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, Jason Mercier, and Chad "ChadBrownPRO" Brown (all Team PokerStars USA) and George "Jorj95" Lind III (Team PokerStars Online).
As we hit the midpoint of Level 11, we are now down to 49 players, gathered around seven seven-handed tables.
The current plan today is to play down to a seven-handed final table, or ten levels, whichever comes first.