Yevgeniy Timoshenko raised in early position to 650 and a middle position player made the call. On the flop, Timoshenko led out and received a call. Both players checked when the landed on the turn and the river came the . Timoshenko thought for some time before slowly placing 2,750 out. His opponent snap-called but was shown the bad news as Timoshenko turned over for quad sevens and the nuts. The player mucked his hand as Timoshenko’s stack grew.
Were putting Carlos Mortensen down as 7,000. But the fact is even Mortensen doesn't know exactly what he has. He's fashioned a very tall tower and has lined up all of the flag markings on the side making extremely difficult to get an accurate count.
A very short-stacked Randal Flowers went all-in for his last 975 from early position. Action folded around to the big blind player, who called.
Flowers:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Flowers doubled.
Amusingly, we noticed that Flowers had been standing the entire time, apparently ready to leave as soon as he busted. After doubling, however, he said, "Maybe I'll just keep on standing. That's the trick to winning all-ins."
True to his word, Flowers remained standing and folded five hands in a row.
However, on the sixth hand, an opponent opened or 650 from early position and Flowers re-raised all-in for 1,750. Everyone folded back around to the original raiser, who called.
Flowers:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Flowers' superior kicker doubled him (again) to 3,800.
Perhaps feeling he had a playable stack again, Flower decided to sit back down....for now.
Jeffrey Papola has picked up a few small pots here and there since we resumed play. He raised to 600 from the cutoff position and the player in the small blind called.
The flop ran out . The player in the small blind checked and Papola made it 800 to go. His opponent folded. Papola has built his stack up to 14,000 in chips.
We caught up with the action just as John Kim was dragging the pot. It appeared that Kim and an opponent had gotten it all in preflop. Kim had the vs. his opponent's and and ace hit the board, chipping Kim up to 40,000 and sending his opponent to the rail.
We don’t know when the money went in but we saw Dragan Galic raking in the chips in a significant pot at the end. Galic held which cracked the of his opponent when the board read to give Galic a set on the turn and a queens-full on the river. The hand eliminated the opponent as Galic climbed the counts to be among the bigger stacks in the field.
After the dinner break we had all tables in the Pavilion Room. As it stands now only the Black and White sections are being used. They have already broken two rows of tables in the Black section, reversing the normal White into Black breaking order.
Gary Gates raised to 800 from the under the gun position and action folded all the way around to the big blind. The player in the big blind raised all in for a total of 1,975. Gates made the call.
Gates:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Gates took down the pot. He now sits with around 21,000 in chips.
Action began with 2010 November-Nine'er Matthew Jarvis opening for 700 from the hi-jack position. Ronnie Bardah, who also made a deep run in last year's Main Event (24th) flatted from the cutoff and the big came along as well.
The flop came and the big checked, prompting an 1,100 c-bet from Jarvis. Bardah again called and the big folded.
Both players checked the turn, however, when the completed the board, Jarvis fired 2,550 and Bardah called.
Bardah:
Jarvis:
Chop pot!
We will continue to keep an eye on these two and see if they can have a repeat performance of last year's Main Event and make a run at another WSOP gold bracelet.
Jarvis will be going for his second bracelet as he just recently won Event #40: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed a few days prior, which was good for a cool $808,538.
flop, Timoshenko led out and received a call. Both players checked when the 
landed on the turn and the river came the 
. Timoshenko thought for some time before slowly placing 2,750 out. His opponent snap-called but was shown the bad news as Timoshenko turned over 
for quad sevens and the nuts. The player mucked his hand as Timoshenko’s stack grew.
and Flowers doubled.
and Flowers' superior kicker doubled him (again) to 3,800.
. The player in the small blind checked and Papola made it 800 to go. His opponent folded. Papola has built his stack up to 14,000 in chips.
vs. his opponent's 
and Gates took down the pot. He now sits with around 21,000 in chips.
turn, however, when the 
completed the board, Jarvis fired 2,550 and Bardah called.
