The dinner break was kind to some and not so kind to others such as Melanie Weisner who busted in one of the first few hands after the break.
Weisner was all in preflop with 
against the 
of another player at the table. The board ran out 
and Weisner hit the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | -125,000 |
|
|
306,000 | -9,000 |
|
270,000 | 25,000 |
|
215,000 | 17,000 |
|
|
190,000 | -10,000 |
|
175,000 | 2,000 |
|
115,000 | 68,900 |
|
104,000 | -4,000 |
|
100,000 | 4,000 |
|
|
75,000 | 21,000 |
|
67,000 | -8,000 |
|
65,000 | -23,000 |
|
|
65,000 | -10,000 |
|
55,000 | -1,000 |
|
Busted |
Dan O'Brien hadn't even taken his back pack off after returning from dinner break when he knocked out a player at his table with 
. He left the dinner break with 85,000 and the first time he sits back down at his seat after it, he has around 160,000. Good timing Mr. O'Brien.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000 | 50,000 |
Cards are back in the air and the 80 remaining players are back to the action. The average stack right now is around 129,000.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Players are now on their one hour dinner break. We'll be back after everyone has refueled!
We just witnessed a drama-filled hand between Jimmy Tran, Olivier Busquet, and another player.
The player in the hijack raised to 5,000 and Busquet re-raised to 20,000 from the small blind. Jimmy Tran called the 20,000 from the big blind but then the initial raiser pushed all in for 38,000. Olivier wasted no time in declaring himself all in as well, but his stack totaled 110,000 meaning Jimmy Tran would have to commit most of his stack if he wanted to make the call.
Tran went into the tank, mumbling and looking at the other players chip stacks. Tran asked Busquet "Why you not call? Why you all in?" to which Busquet replied (with a smile on his face), "I can't call and let you call too!"
Tran's chip protector is a spinning dial that has a number of poker-related actions on it. Tran, obviously confused about what he should do, spun the little spinner and the other players all leaned in to see what it would say.
"It says check" Tran stated, eliciting laughter from his tablemates and the dealer. He spun it one more time and the dial landed on "raise." Tran slapped his hand onto the table in frustration and then tossed his cards into the muck.
Busquet casually flipped over his 
much to the shock of Tran. The all-in player was ahead with his 
.
The ace-queen was good through the turn with the board reading 
but a devastating 
on the river gave Busquet a pair of fives and sent the player holding ace-queen to the rail.
After the hand Busquet's stack grew to 170,000. Jimmy Tran now has 140,000.
Tuan Le had recently moved to Melanie Weisner's table and seated next to her. We caught this hand on the flop of 
and Weisner bet 5,700. Le raised to 15,700 and Weisner called. The turn came 
and both players checked. The river was the and Weisner checked. Le slid out 25,000 and Weisner insta-called. Le turned over 
and Weisner let out an exasperated sigh.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
245,000 | 130,000 |
|
|
54,000 | -61,000 |
A player under the gun open shoved all in for 120,000 which is 60 big blinds right now and Chris Moorman woke up in the big blind with 
.
We only knew that this was happening thanks to Mohsin Charania (who is sitting to Moorman's left) who tweeted,"Guy at our table jammed 120k at 1k-2k utg and Moorman in the bb has been in the tank for 5 minutes."
We went down to watch, and it was at least another four minutes before Moorman tried to call the clock on himself, which you cannot do, so a player at the table did for him and he eventually laid it down.
The player under the gun threw his hands in the muck and after much pleading for him to "show one" he said, "You know, I don't usually talk about my hands, but you had one over on me, I had Kings."
Who knows if he was telling the truth or not, but Moorman still has a big stack right now and will be fine without the win or the loss in the hand
Michael Michnik moved all in from middle position and Alex Fitzgerald came over top with his all in. Action folded around and Michnik tabled 
. Fitzgerald was ahead holding .
The board ran 
and Michnik was sent to the rail.