Jason Hallee opened for around 60,000 under the gun and the action moved on to Neil Channing, who asked Hallee how much he was playing (answer - 460,000 behind). He thought about it for a while and then re-popped to 167,000. It folded right back around to Hallee, and he quickly folded too, leaving himself the shortest stack at the chipped-up feature table.
From middle position, Billy Griner opened the pot with a 80,000-chip raise. William Kakon re-popped it to 250,000 in the big blind. Griner moved all in and Kakon tanked.
The clock was called and in the last second, Kakon folded pocket tens face up.
Griner tabled and took the pot. Kakon slipped to 600,000 chips and Griner moved up to 1,100,000.
It folded around to Jeff Cohen in the small blind, who announced all in for just about 10 big blinds. In the big blind, Alexander Queen tanked up for some time. We rather feel for Queen - he seems to have spent an awful lot of the day with one short stack or another to his right, attempting to steal his blinds. After a while he made the call.
It was a good call.
Queen:
Cohen: dominated with
Board: bink!
Cohen's pair of fours was good enough to double him up to 540,000. Queen was left with 450,000.
While most of the chips are up on the feature table, down on the second table David Wilkinson and Billy Griner are trading chips back and forth like there's no tomorrow.
Most recently, Wilkinson just limped in on the small blind and big blind Griner checked his option. They saw a flop.
Flop:
Wilkinson checked to Griner, who bet 50,000. Back to Wilkinson, who now check-raised all in.
Griner tanked up for a long, long time, his leg jiggling frantically. Eventually he called.
Griner:
Wilkinson: some rather sneakily played
Turn:
River:
Wilkinson doubled to 565,000 while William Kakon reassured the devastated Griner that he had done the right thing. Griner dropped back to 700,000 after that.