Break Time #1
First of many. Players will be back in 20.
First of many. Players will be back in 20.
Two levels are in the books and that means it's time for our first 20-minute break of the day. Expect this one to be a little longer though because of the bracelet ceremony though.
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Players are back at the tables and cards are back in the air.
By the by the number on the board right now is 568. We're not sure if that's official yet, but registration is now closed.
With the board reading , nothing happened. By which we mean there was a pause while the player who was first to act considered his options. Greg Mueller in position was impatient though.
"Dealer, can you please watch the action so we know what's going on?" he said, somewhat snappishly.
The dealer looked a little confused. "I don't know what's going on," he hazarded eventually. Finally the player checked and Mueller checked behind.
They saw a river and the unknown player bet out. Mueller now raised all in for his whole 10,000 stack, enough to cover his opponent, and after a little while the hapless player folded leaving himself just 1,525. Mueller upped his stack to 18,000.
After the hand Mueller tried to apologize to the dealer, although he actually in the process managed to further imply that the dealer was not fully focused on the task at hand. The dealer nodded a lot and said it was all right.
We caught up with Chad Brown on the river of a board with around 5,000 in the pot. He was checking. His opponent bet 3,200 with 6,000 left behind, driving Brown into the tank for a few moments. Eventually, with some regret in his expression, Brown folded.
Brown was at 21,100 after that.
We caught up with young British up-and-comer Sida Yuen on the flop. His opponent had checked and Yuen bet 700, which his opponent quickly called.
Both players checked the turn, and the player out of position checked again on the river. Yuen bet 1,000 and his opponent made the call. When they got to showdown, Yuen turned over pocket jacks, but his opponent revealed pocket threes for a flopped set and turned full house, and Yuen dropped to 8,000.
Antonio Esfandiari and Rui Cao have switched the game up. Now, they're asking random passerby's if they've had over or under 25 Mountain Dews in their life.
One of our tournament reporters responded over, costing Mr. Esfandiari $100.
Sorry sir!
Veronica Dabul raised in the cutoff, only for the gentleman on the button to reraise. The blinds both passed and the action was back on Dabul, who four-bet shoved for 5,175. A call later and they were on their backs.
Button gentleman:
Dabul: flying high with the American Airlines
Board:
It was a full Dabul-up for the Argentinian - she was at 10,500 after that.