Speaking to his friends still in the tournament, McDonald made his intentions clear that he was on the way to registering for the Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship.
We missed the action, but James Mackey is sitting on a healthy stack of about 335,000 thanks to his defeating an opponent's . The final board read , giving Mackey a pair of kings to bust his opponent.
Ricky Fohrenbach has just found a huge double through chip leader James Mackey.
With all the money going in preflop, Fohrenbach's last 125,000 was in ahead with his against Mackey's .
The flop gave Fohrenbach a great lead in the hand, but even through a sweat on the turn, the on the river would keep him alive and over 250,000 in chips as Mackey slips back to sit just outside the top ten chip counts.
John Zentner raised to 8,000 from middle position before action folded to Bernard Lee in the big blind. Lee raised all in, having Zentner's last 48,000 well covered. Zentner tanked and tanked, but eventually gave it up. Lee showed the and won the pot.
After the button raised to 9,000, Dave "Doc" Sands reraised to 28,500 from the big blind. The button then came back with a shove for a little over 200,000. Sands gave it up and saw those chips leave his stack.
From middle position, Javier Nemesio min-raised to 8,000 with 24,000 behind. Bernard Lee moved all in from the small blind and Nemesio made the call when action got back to him.
Nemesio:
Lee:
The board ran out and Nemesio made a straight to double up.