On a flop of , Jonathan Little checked from the small blind and was followed by the player in the big. With action on another player in middle position, he fired out 850, which both checkers called.
After the dealer burned and turned the , it went check-check to the middle-position player and he bet 2,250. Little sat motionless for about 30 seconds before announcing, "All in." The 16,825 raise was too much for the big blind and he quickly folded. The middle-position player thought for a long while, constantly double checking his cards, before flicking them to the muck.
Little took down the pot without a showdown and is up to 24,000.
It was five-way action into a raised pot on a flop of when we arrived on the scene; all the players, including Kristian Lunardi and Shawn Buchanan in late position, checked it down before the dealer peeled off the turn of the .
Again, the action checked around, but this time Lunardi fired out a bet and Buchanan called, forcing the others out of the way before the river completed the board. Lunardi fired out 6,525 and Buchanan went into the tank for about two-and-a-half minutes before making the call, only to muck after Lunardi showed for the full house.
The Aussies are really tearing it up in the "True Blue" section of the Amazon Room today!
We've already found our first six-figure stack and it belongs to Jan Philippi. According to one of our friends in the media, Philippi is on 105,000 after being paid off twice when he had nut flushes and then also picked up against .
During a recent hand action had folded around to Alexandre Gomes in the cut off position, he opted to bet and made it 500. The big blind was the only one willing to call, and both players got to see a flop. Both players knuckled and it was off to the turn,
The decided to make an appearance on fourth street and with it came bet of 625 from Gomes and a call from his opponent. The river was apparently irrelevant, as both players checked. The big blind showed first and flipped over for jack high and a busted straight draw. Gomes countered the jack high by flipping for a pair of winning nines.
Shawn "Lightning" Keller opened to 500 from early position, and was called by two players near the button. The flop came down , Keller continued for 700, and a player on the button called. Both players checked the on the turn, and the hit the river. Keller checked, his opponent tossed out one T1,000 chip, and Keller tank-folded.
Well, that seat Frank Kassela took between Barry Greenstein and David Daneshgar didn't work out so well. Kassela lost more than half his stack early this level, and the rest went shortly thereafter, sending him to the rail.
Meanwhile, Greenstein and Daneshgar each have at about 23,000 at the moment.
Abe Mosseri was up nearly double here early on, but just lost most of it after making a correct read and an incorrect call.
With the board reading Mosseri bet 800 from the big blind and the player in middle position raised it up to 2,200. Mosseri made the call and said "Why do I feel like you have ?"
The river came the and Mosseri checked to his opponent who bet out 2,500. Mosseri again made the call and his was beaten by his correct read of for Broadway.
Mosseri is down to 40,000 after his previous high of near 60,000.
We have a gentleman over here in the Orange section who's apparently a bit of a satellite buff. In the month of June, Ken Shelton won seven WSOP satellites. And four of them were big ones, earning him enough lammers to buy into this Main Event several times over. In fact, in those seven satellites, he earned a total of $54,693 in tournament entries. Average buy-in: $706. Average winnings: $7,813. That's not too shabby an ROI, and Shelton was more than willing to share with us the secret to his success.
"You want to know the secret?" he asked flatly. "Re-entry."
Shelton used some of those lammers to buy himself into the $5,000 Six-Max Event #40, finishing in 11th place to add another $11,903 to his wallet. He's here with us on Day 1d of the Main Event, too, and he's worked his starting stack up to about 42,000 as we write.
, Jonathan Little checked from the small blind and was followed by the player in the big. With action on another player in middle position, he fired out 850, which both checkers called.
, it went check-check to the middle-position player and he bet 2,250. Little sat motionless for about 30 seconds before announcing, "All in." The 16,825 raise was too much for the big blind and he quickly folded. The middle-position player thought for a long while, constantly double checking his cards, before flicking them to the muck.
when we arrived on the scene; all the players, including Kristian Lunardi and Shawn Buchanan in late position, checked it down before the dealer peeled off the turn of the 
completed the board. Lunardi fired out 6,525 and Buchanan went into the tank for about two-and-a-half minutes before making the call, only to muck after Lunardi showed 
for the full house.
flop. Both players knuckled and it was off to the turn,
decided to make an appearance on fourth street and with it came bet of 625 from Gomes and a call from his opponent. The 
river was apparently irrelevant, as both players checked. The big blind showed first and flipped over 
for jack high and a busted straight draw. Gomes countered the jack high by flipping 
for a pair of winning nines.
, Keller continued for 700, and a player on the button called. Both players checked the 
on the turn, and the 
, then mucked his hand.
was beaten by his correct read of 
for Broadway.
