We just witnessed a split pot between Ronnie Bardah and John Hennigan, with the pair sharing the blinds and a single bet from Chad Brown. Bardah started the ball rolling with a bet from first position and Hennigan (SB) and Brown (BB) flicked in their calls. The flop of appealed to all three of them and three bets later we saw the on the turn. It was like synchronised poker as this time each player checked and finally we saw the on the river. Hennigan bet, Brown mucked and Bardah called. Bardah turned over and Hennigan turned over .
Benjamin Lazer just claimed the last of Richard Lewis' stack over on Table 432 to reduce the field by one. As the first to cash, Lewis earns a $4,046 payday.
Terrence Chan is like a pig rolling around in his own…well you get the picture. With 2 World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table appearances in Limit Hold'em pencilled on his resume, Chan knows hat he is doing. In fact if he gets anymore laid back he is going to fall off his chair. But every know and then, even the very best have to lose a pot or two, and Ben Lazer was on hand to do just that.
Lazer fixed his sights on Chan and fired off a bet from the button; Chan called from the large. The flop was and Chan tried to take it down, there and then, with a check-raise. Lazer wasn't going to be shifted though, and he made the call. Chan continued to batter Lazer when he bet at the sight of the turn, but Lazer once again called. Chan finally gave up on the river. Both players checked, Chan showed for the missed draw and Lazer picked up the pot with a stubborn looking .
With 36 left, we're updating counts on all of the remaining players. Here's how the stacks look at tables 430, 432, and 433 at the moment. We'll have the other 18 players updated in just a moment.
"Eleven hundred," said Jason Manger, somewhat wearily, when Maria Ho asked him what he had left. The board read , and Ho was first to act.
Hearing his answer, Ho bet, Manger called all in, and Ho turned over for deuces. Manger stood up from his chair as he tabled his , readying himself to leave. Then came the river... the !
Manger smiled and sat back down, still alive as one of the final 36.
We approached the cash bubble, and within just a couple hands it went pop without much deliberation with two more short stacks losing their last chips.
The final 36 have now settled around six six-handed tables, now setting to work on how they will be dividing up that $687,050 prize pool.
With two more players to go before we have thirty-six very happy punters, we have a straight for Maria Ho and a missed opportunity for Jeff Lisandro.
Lisandro raised on the button, Yosuke Sekiya made the three-bet from the small blind, the big blind called as did Lisandro. The flop was , Sekiya bet, the big blind folded and Lisandro just called. The turn went the same way before Lisandro raised the river. As expected Sekiya made the call and the two players turned their cards over.
Lisandro
Sekiya
So Lisandro had flopped the nuts before allowing Sekiya to catch up for a share of the spoils, "If I had raised that flop he couldn't have called," Lisandro told himself.
Then Maria Ho pulled a nice chunk from the stack of Jacob Petersen. Petersen raised on the button and Ho called. The flair shared a flop of and Petersen called a check-raise from Ho. The board then ran out and and Petersen called two streets of value from Ho. She confidently flipped on their backs and Petersen folded.
After fighting valiantly with a short stack for much of the last couple of hours, Andre Akkari has been eliminated, leaving 38 players left to battle. Such is poker, he tweeted to his followers just now, thanking them for the support:
aakkari andre akkariCaimos em 39th, segue o jogo, valeu tds as msgs galera!June 22 2012
appealed to all three of them and three bets later we saw the 
on the turn. It was like synchronised poker as this time each player checked and finally we saw the 
on the river. Hennigan bet, Brown mucked and Bardah called. Bardah turned over 
and Hennigan turned over 
.
and Chan tried to take it down, there and then, with a check-raise. Lazer wasn't going to be shifted though, and he made the call. Chan continued to batter Lazer when he bet at the sight of the 
turn, but Lazer once again called. Chan finally gave up on the 
river. Both players checked, Chan showed 
.
, and Ho was first to act.
for deuces. Manger stood up from his chair as he tabled his 
, readying himself to leave. Then came the river... the 
!
, Sekiya bet, the big blind folded and Lisandro just called. The turn 
went the same way before Lisandro raised the 
river. As expected Sekiya made the call and the two players turned their cards over.
and 
and Petersen called two streets of value from Ho. She confidently flipped 
