Wow, cooler of the day now as one unhappy punter found that his rivered full house was no good against Justin Conway's straight flush.
Conway raised preflop and picked up one caller to see an flop. Conway bet out, and again his opponent flatted. So they proceeded to the turn - once more, Conway bet out, and once again, his opponent called.
And so to the river. Conway bet out again, and this time his opponent went all in. Conway made the call, and they flipped their cards.
All-in opponent:
Conway:
Ouch. The now-busted possessor of the full house took his leave, presumably to go throw up somewhere a little more private, while the extremely fortunate Conway is up to 29,000.
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Nikolay Evdakov, here shown not running between the Pavilion and Amazon rooms
Two summers ago, Nikokay Evdakov set a new WSOP record by cashing a whopping 10 times in a single Series. In 2009, he followed that up with another six cashes.
Making the money that often obviously means playing in a lot of events. Which Evdakov does. Even if they run at the same time.
Still with chips over in Event No. 2, the $50,000 buy-in Player's Championship, that event is currently on a dinner break, which has given the Russian pro a chance to come back over here to Event No. 3 and work further on building his stack.
At the moment over in Event No. 2, Evdakov is still in the thick of things, in the middle of the pack with 35 players left. Over here he's built up to a just below-average stack of 8,700 in the relatively few hands he's been able to play.
Georgios Kapalas raised to 800 from middle position before the cutoff seat moved all in for 3,775. When action got back to Kapalas he went into the tank before making the call.
Kapalas:
Opponent:
The board ran out and the all-in player stared at the board as if he didn't know whether he won or lost as the dealer pushed the two aces and the five forward. The dealer then mucked Kapalas' hand before pushing the player the pot, to which he erupted, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" and began pumping his fist. All Kapalas could do was shake his head as he slipped back to 14,200 chips.
Jon "FatalError" Aguiar raised to 700 from the button and the gentleman in the big blind called to see a flop, which they both checked.
The turn was the and the gent in the big blind - let us call him Mr. BB - checked again, and then called a 600 bet from Aguiar. They proceeded to the river.
The river came down the and now Mr. BB bet out 1,500. Aguiar called, and tabled for ace high. Mr. BB claimed king high and mucked, leaving Aguiar to rake in the pot.
It's been a pretty bad day for Team PokerStars in the $1,000 NLH event - now that the usual Day 1 festival of carnage has dispatched Team PokerStars Pros Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko, Pat Pezzin, Jason Mercier, Greg Raymer and Gavin Griffin, plus Friend of PokerStars Bill Chen, it looks as though we're all out of Team Pros for Day 1b.
For the rest of this event, the hopes of Team PokerStars will be resting on Vanessa Rousso and Marcello del Grosso, both of whom played yesterday. Del Grosso will be coming back for Day 2 with a 6,400 short stack. Rousso, though by no means a big stack, finished up on a much healthier 25,700.
Isaac Baron raised to 750 and the gentleman on the button called. Baron stared intensely at the felt while the big blind thought about it; when the big blind asked to see Baron's remaining stack, Baron raised his hand in a terribly dramatic fashion. The big blind folded after a while.
After this promising start, however, the hand quickly evaporated into nothing. The two players saw a flop and Baron bet out. His opponent on the button swiftly passed, and Baron, wearing an expression that suggested he was taking all of this this incredibly seriously, took the pot.
Yates "John" Dew and Jon Aguiar were just involved in a big 20,000-chip pot in which Aguiar's pocket jacks were outdrawn when Dew successfully made a flush with his .
Aguiar gets knocked down to 17,000 after that one.
As we strolled by Nicolas Levi's table, we couldn't help noticing that his stack was dangerously short. He made a sad face at your blogger, before turning the topmost chip of his stack on its edge. "There, now it's taller," he said cheerfully.
And so it was not a huge surprise when not long after, we found Mr. Levi hanging around the rail. He'd shoved for his last 3,400 with suited, and got himself called by a gentleman holding in the same suit. No joy from the board, and Levi now has a couple days to hang out by the pool.
Cards are back in the air as we resume play this evening in Event No. 3.
Tourney officials are eyeing that board, which shows 555 of our Day 1b entrants have returned to chip stacks after the dinner break. Since 441 will cash, and 276 made it through yesterday, 165 is the number we're hearing uttered most often around the main desk where the Tournament Director and others congregate.
While the schedule says we'll be playing four more one-hour levels tonight, it sounds like by no means will they let the number of remaining players here in our corner of the Pavilion dwindle below that 165-player mark. We'll keep you updated.
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flop. Conway bet out, and again his opponent flatted. So they proceeded to the 
turn - once more, Conway bet out, and once again, his opponent called.
river. Conway bet out again, and this time his opponent went all in. Conway made the call, and they flipped their cards.
and the all-in player stared at the board as if he didn't know whether he won or lost as the dealer pushed the two aces and the five forward. The dealer then mucked Kapalas' hand before pushing the player the pot, to which he erupted, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" and began pumping his fist. All Kapalas could do was shake his head as he slipped back to 14,200 chips.
flop, which they both checked.
and the gent in the big blind - let us call him Mr. BB - checked again, and then called a 600 bet from Aguiar. They proceeded to the river.
and now Mr. BB bet out 1,500. Aguiar called, and tabled 
.
suited, and got himself called by a gentleman holding 