Awwww Snack!
Players are embarking on a twenty-minute break and will return shortly for Level 15.
Players are embarking on a twenty-minute break and will return shortly for Level 15.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Peter Dufek and an opponent had gotten it all in preflop when we were told there was big action happening on Table 368. And big action there was.
With over 250,000 in the pot, Peter Dufek had flipped up and was up against the of his opponent. The flop provided plenty of sweat when it came , but the turn and river were bricks, bringing and .
Dufek has climbed near the top of the chip counts with his newly acquired stack of 252,000.
Leo Margets her her opponent slightly covered when he moved all in for 40,000 with . Margets stood up to sweat her , and her rail let out a big cheer when the board came . After standing up to the mighty king-queen, Leo is back to 90,000.
Scott Montgomery raised to 7,000 from the cutoff and was soon facing an all-in re-raise of 30,000 more from the player in the big blind. As you can probably guess from our headline, Montgomery made the call.
Montgomery:
Big blind:
Montgomery was ahead and stayed there as the hand played out with a board reading .
Once Montgomery had stacked his new chips up, his total ran about 145,000.
A player in the hijack opened to 8,500, and David Sands made it 17,500 to go on the button. Then the big blind called all in for a total of 16,600. It only took the original raiser a minute to decide to call, but it was a good three minutes before everyone at the table agreed the bets had been pulled in correctly. Finally it was all sorted out, and on to the flop: . The hijack checked, and when Sands slid out a big bet, he gave up his hand. Sands turned up . His opponent was in bad shape with . "Straighten me out," he asked hopefully. No dice, as the on the turn had him drawing dead.
With his timely aces, Doc Sands is up to 108,000.
Mick Carlson had just about worked his stack back to 200,000 when a player had moved all in for 16,800 and Carlson made the call.
Carlson:
Opponent:
The board came and Carlson's opponent doubled up with Carlson slipping to 180,000.
Not too long afterwards, Scott Montgomery picked up and got it all in preflop against an opponent's . The board didn't improve his opponent's hand and Montgomery is now up to 210,000.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Josh Goldstein called an under the gun raise to 7,500 care of Peter Dufek in order to see a flop of . Dufeck led out with a bet of 10,000 and Goldstein countered with a raise to 28,000.
When the came on the turn Dufeck check-folded to a bet of 40,000 from Goldstein.
Our new chip leader appears to be John Clancy who we just caught organizing a stack of 380,000 chips.