A player minimum-raised from the hijack seat to 200, and Brandon Cantu, sitting to his left in the cutoff, reraised to 825. It folded back around and the original raiser took a look at Cantu's stack and then let it go.
A short while later, a player in early position opened for 525 and it folded to Cantu who reraised all in for his stack of 7,600. The folded back to the original raiser who thought a moment, then folded his face up. Cantu showed his hand this time -- .
According to the tournament staff, Day 1A started with 2,340. With twenty minutes left in Level 5, we are down to 1,090 players. That means we have played for 280 minutes and lost 1,250 players.
Doing the math you can see we've lost an average of 4.46 players per minute of this tournament. That is a big number and characteristic of the $1,000 events.
Mayen Grigorian was in early position and moved all in for his last 3,300. The cutoff called and they turned over their cards:
Grigorian:
Cutoff:
Grigorian was in big trouble although the provided a straight draw. The on the turn was no help, but the on the river completed the said straight. Grigorian doubled to 6,900.
John Arthur Lecato was all in with and had two opponents covered. They held and respectively.
The board ran out , giving Lecato a straight flush. The dealer went to muck the board to move on to the next hand but Lecato interrupted, "Wait, hold on, I wanna get a picture of that. It's my first straight flush."
The dealer mucked the board anyway and Lecato will just have to settle for his 17,800 chip stack.
An interesting hand occurred at the start of Level 5 over on Table 46 just now. More than just interesting for Joe Singer, speaker of the above. For him, it was awesome.
Gabe Costner opened with a raise to 400 from early position, and a player to Costner's left reraised all in. Singer failed to notice the reraise, so when he said he was calling, he didn't realize he was calling for most of his chips. Then the player acting after Singer shoved over the top all in, forcing Costner out and making it necessary for Singer to commit the last of his stack.
The original player who pushed all-in turned over , and the player to Singer's left showed . Tough spot for , which is what Singer had.
But the flop came , giving Singer a gutshot. ("Yes!) And the turn was the , completing his straight. ("Yes!") And the river meant he'd survived. ("Yes!")
Following a flop, Carter King was just all in for his remaining stack, and found himself up against a single opponent. King flipped over , while his opponent showed .
"All right," said King when he saw he actually was ahead, if precariously so. "Now if I can avoid these million outs."
The turn did miss his opponent, but the river did not, giving him the flush and sending King out. "Best way I can miss a flop," said the winner afterwards as he stacked his new chips.
By the way, that table at which were sitting five players with 16 WSOP bracelets between them (all late registrants, seated at the start of Level 3), has now been broken, with its players scattered throughout the spacious Pavilion Room.
As is usually the case in these $1K events, eliminations are coming quickly, with tables breaking and players moving at a rapid pace.
face up. Cantu showed his hand this time -- 
.
provided a straight draw. The 
on the turn was no help, but the 
on the river completed the said straight. Grigorian doubled to 6,900.
and had two opponents covered. They held 
, giving Lecato a straight flush. The dealer went to muck the board to move on to the next hand but Lecato interrupted, "Wait, hold on, I wanna get a picture of that. It's my first straight flush."
. Tough spot for 
, which is what Singer had.
, giving Singer a gutshot. ("Yes!) And the turn was the 
, completing his straight. ("Yes!") And the ![[user22113]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
