David "Doc" Sands opened with a raise, and Filippo Candio added another 17,400 to the bet. Sands responded by moving all in for about 70,000. "What? All in?" Candio asked the dealer several times. "All in? Oh, I call." Sands stood up, disgusted by the cooler.
Sands:
Candio:
He was even suit dominated. Yuck. The board ran out , and Candio's friends on the rail whooped while Sands made a quiet exit. A rough end to a solid series from the Doc. Candio has his chips in a messy mountain that reaches above his eye level. It's impossible to count exactly, but he's somewhere in the 750,000 range after busting Sands.
Three players had reached the turn with the board showing . Johnny Chan led for 14,000, then an opponent raised to 30,000. The third player folded, and Chan tanked for a short while. Perhaps it was those decades of experience -- or maybe just the last couple of hours' worth with this opponent -- but something told Chan he wasn't good, and so he folded.
Chan showed one of his cards -- the -- as he let his hand go. That perhaps prompted his opponent to share what he'd had: for the straight. Chan's instinct was correct.
Alan Sternberg started the day with 375,000 chips, slipped down into under 300,000, and has been working his way back up. He's currently sitting on 325,000 after calling a player's all-in bet preflop.
Sternberg:
Opponent:
All it took was the flop for Sternberg to pull ahead, as it came down . The on the turn and on the river saw him through to the end.
Dwyte Pilgrim just won a big pot to push his stack up to 270,000 in chips after he hit quad tens on a board of . Pilgrim check-called the flop and turn before shoving in on the river. He was paid off by his opponent who held an ace.
We picked up what would develop into a big pot over on Table Galfond. The board showed when we walked up just in time to see Galfond bet 23,000 at the pot. His opponent check-called, and the turn came the . Both players checked, and the filled out the board. The first player took the lead now, pushing out a bet of 76,000. Galfond eventually moved all in over the top. His opponent had about 220,000 total chips, and he called all in for his tournament life. It was the last call he'll make today:
Galfond:
Opponent:
Galfond's straight is the better one, and the big pot gets pushed into his corner. He's eliminated his opponent, moving himself up to a quite-healthy 545,000 in the process.
You know you've made it in the Main Event when you can create a chin-rest with your stack. It's almost like a milestone. One man who has enough chips to build a house to live in is Filippo Candio, his stack now hovering around the one million mark.
But, despite what my girlfriend says, it's quantity, not quality, and Candio has the former by the bucket-load. "Color the kid up!" commanded a random member of the rail.
Now that everyone is in the Amazon Room and the staff are carting off table, as noted by change100 earlier, we're closing in on crunch time. The staff have broken nine tables from the outer edge of the orange section (a row of five and a row of four) and are now moving their way partially up the two inner rows. It looks like the staff are breaking tables towards the center of the room. After two more table breaks in Orange, the staff will start breaking tables in the Blue Section.
In previous years, the room was broken section by section, first Red, then Orange, then Blue towards the feature table. It seems the WSOP is trying something new this year.
When we arrived at Table 275, Will "The Thrill" Failla was all in with about 100,000 in the middle and the board reading .
"I think you're full of s***," his opponent quipped. "I don't know why you would check-raise me."
"I've been full of s*** before," Failla returned.
"Ok," his opponent sighed, showing the before mucking. "Show the bluff."
"20 bucks," Failla demanded.
His opponent reached for his wallet, pulled out a Jackson and threw it on the table. Failla showed and scooped the pot. Failla was not full of s*** after all, and is now up to 295,000 chips.
Pierre Neuville was down to 68,000 chips when he got it all in against Martijn Schirp, who called an all-in bet preflop.
Schirp:
Neuville:
Things looked bleak for Neuville, as he found himself dominated by Schirp's big slick. However, when the flop came it paired Neuville's queen, which held through the on the turn and the on the river.
Neuville currently has 140,000 while Schirp still has 600,000.
There was a raise to 7,000 under the gun and it folded around to Robert Varkonyi in the big blind who called, his leg jiggling up and down. The under-the-gun raiser enquired, "How much you got?" (answer - 80,000) and they saw a flop.
They flop came down and Varkonyi bet out 7,000. His opponent thought about it for a while and then called.
They saw a turn and the action was much the same, except that this time the bet from Varkonyi was 14,000. Again, his opponent paused, and then called.
The river came down the and this time Varkonyi, still jiggling his leg, checked. His opponent checked behind, and Varkonyi turned over . His opponent turned over a surprisingly good and took the pot.
The former world champion dropped to 55,000 and immediately downed a whole bottle of water as the TV cameras dispersed.
, and Candio's friends on the rail whooped while Sands made a quiet exit. A rough end to a solid series from the Doc. Candio has his chips in a messy mountain that reaches above his eye level. It's impossible to count exactly, but he's somewhere in the 750,000 range after busting Sands.
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