We're noticing now that a significantly higher percentage of the field has burned their rebuy lammers. That includes Justin Bonomo, whose stack is down to 4,800 after a recent encounter with Steven van Zadelhoff. Van Zadelhoff was all in before the flop with . Bonomo took him on with but wound up taking a knock as the board rolled out to make a pair of aces for van Zadelhoff. That gave van Zadelhoff a double up to 4,100, with both of his rebuy lammers still available. Bonomo slipped to 4,800, no rebuy lammers left at his disposal.
Chino Rheem was not happy to be snap-called all in by the player on his left. The size of Rheem's raise had been to 3,925 (with no rebuy lammers left behind) after an opening raise was re-raised all in by a different player to 1,575. Rheem knew his was in bad shape and he was right. The short stack had , but the player who called Rheem's raise -- and had Rheem covered -- showed down .
That was no problem for Rheem after an eight-high flop, , gave him a set of eights. The turn and river were both face cards, but they were and , not enough to overtake Rheem's set. He now has about 10,000 chips.
On a flop of and with 2,600 in the pot, Alex Outhred checked the action to his lone opponent. That player bet 1,500, enough to put Outhred all in if he called. He did choose to call with , two overcards and an inside straight draw. His opponent showed a pair of deuces, , for a set. Outhred's draw filled immediately as the turn came to give him a jack-high straight. He hung on after the river failed to pair the board. Outhred is up to about 4,500.
Eric Cajelais opened pre-flop for a standard raise, then called a short-stack's all-in shove. Cajelais' held against his opponent's to propel Cajelais to about 14,000 in chips.
Late registration closed at the start of Level 3, so hopefully we'll stop spotting new players on one of our next passes out on the floor. Until then, however, please welcome these players to the field:
Chris Ferguson
Andreas Hoivold
Tom Schneider
Josh Arieh
JJ Liu
Max Pescatori
John Phan
Faraz "the Toilet" Jaka's been running hot to start the day, but it was unreasonable to expect that he would hit every draw. He and Jeff Sluzinski got all the chips in the middle on a flop of . Sluzinski showed the aces, a[s], while Jaka was playing two diamonds, . Jaka's diamond draw failed to materialize, and . He's still leading the field (we think) with 45,500. Sluzinski doubled to 8,700 with a rebuy lammer yet to be cashed in.
They say poker's a skill game, but running good surely never heard anybody. Jordan Morgan was dealt at the same time one of his opponents, who started the hand with 9,600, was dealt . Predictably all of the money was soon in the middle, with morgan's aces holding .
Adam Junglen, seated at the table, immediately said, "I'm so lucky," a reference to Morgan's online screen name. He then added, "Skill game, Jordan."
If you spend $3,000 to enter a poker tournament at the World Series of Poker, and your friends come to watch from the rail, you'd hope they'd be supportive. Not so for James Vannenan. Vannenan's friends were intested in heading off to play a round of golf and wanted their poker-playing buddy to join them. They offered the other players at Vannenan's table a bounty of $50 to bust him. When that failed to produce any action over a period of a few hands, they upped the bounty to $100. Vannenan still failed to bust and, disappointed, they wandered off without him.
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. Bonomo took him on with 
but wound up taking a knock as the board rolled out 
to make a pair of aces for van Zadelhoff. That gave van Zadelhoff a double up to 4,100, with both of his rebuy lammers still available. Bonomo slipped to 4,800, no rebuy lammers left at his disposal.
was in bad shape and he was right. The short stack had 
, but the player who called Rheem's raise -- and had Rheem covered -- showed down 
.
, gave him a set of eights. The turn and river were both face cards, but they were 
and 
, not enough to overtake Rheem's set. He now has about 10,000 chips.
, two overcards and an inside straight draw. His opponent showed a pair of deuces, 
, for a set. Outhred's draw filled immediately as the turn came 
failed to pair the board. Outhred is up to about 4,500.
held against his opponent's 
to propel Cajelais to about 14,000 in chips.
. Jaka's diamond draw failed to materialize, 
at the same time one of his opponents, who started the hand with 9,600, was dealt 
.