John Kim has just eliminated Michael Katz and David Tuthill has done likewise to Hiren 'Sunny' Patel.
Katz open shoved for 4,600 and John Kim made the reluctant call from the big blind holding . The board ran out , Kim moved up to 23,000 and Katz was out of here.
Then we saw Sunny packing up his things, but before he was left he was kind enough to tell us his exit hand. He shoved for 7,700 holding and was called by David Tuthill and . The flop did bring Sunny a ray of hope when it contained the but it was accompanied by a holding a dagger in it's hand which was thrust into the heart of Patel.
We don't know exactly how the action went, but the board read and Randy Lew moved all in. His opponent made the call fairly quickly and flipped over for a pair of jacks. Lew countered by exposing for the nut flush.
Lew now sits with around 75,000 and is looking to make another great run here today. Lew has already cashed three times this World Series of Poker with his biggest score coming from Event: 43 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em. Lew also cashed three times in last year's WSOP, but he has yet to make a final table. A good run today could see that streak end.
At one time during the shenanigans of Day 1 a man by the name of Jimmy Born was our chip leader. His day dipped after that rise to prominence, until the very last hand of the night, when he got it in against Richard Geyer in a huge pot - v . That pot put Born on 155,500, and into third spot on the leader board. So today should have been a great day for Born. Why then is he walking along the rail muttering into the air?
We caught up with Born and he was kind enough to describe his horrendous morning. His largest loss came against Larry Duplantis. The details were sketchy but I gather they got it in on the turn with Duplantis holding for a pair of tens and a straight flush draw and Born held for the over cards, straight draw and flush draw. The river card handed Born his flush but it also completed the straight flush of Duplantis who now has 155,000 chips as a net result.
Born then moved tables and he was eliminated soon after by Jeremy Quehen. Quehen had check-raised enough chips to put Born all-in on a board of and after a long dwell he made the call. Born held and Quehen held . The turn and river bricked for Born and he was out.
Action folded around to Tyler Bonkowski on the button and he made it 3,200. Chris Moorman in the small blind then moved all in for around 100,000. The big blind only had about 10,000 and took his time before ultimately folding. Bonkowski snap called and it was his 60,600 were at risk.
Moorman:
Bonkowski:
Moorman was in bad shape, he was going to need a four or he was going to lose 2/3s of his stack. The board came and Moorman was forced to send most of his stack over.
Bonkowski is no stranger to making deep runs here at the World Series of Poker. In 2011 he won a bracelet in that year's Event #14: $3,000 Limit Hold'em. Crossing the 100,000 plateau Bonkowski is now in great shape and could capture bracelet number 2.
The fans of PokerNews have kindly asked for an update on a few players and your wish is our command.
David 'betudontbet' Emmons, described as a 'handsomer, rich man's Burt Reynolds' is currently sitting on 63,000 chips. The player with the largest stack on that table belongs to Jason Duval who has an impressive 220,000. Duval won a 100k flip v to help him grow that haul.
Kenny Hallaert has 49,000 chips but he does have the impressive Vanessa Selbst sat to his left. Philip Meulyzer has 95,000 and is sharing a table with the impressive Philipp Gruissem.
Daniel Sindelar and Scott Blackmann just got it in, and it was Sindelar hitting the two outer (the player seated to his left told him he had mucked an ace).
Sindelar
Blackmann
Board:
Blackmann is down to 58,000 and Sindelar moved up to 87,000
Here are two hands that we managed to catch while we were playing hand for hand.
Nicholas Schwarmann raised to 4,000 under the gun, a second player called and Vadzim Markushevski squeezed to 12,800 in position. Back to Schwarmann who called and the second player folded.
Flop:
This is where it got interesting because Schwarmann check-raised to 18,200 after Markushevski had bet 8,000. This left Schwarmann with 25,000 behind and it was a bubble decision for Markushevski. He thought for a while - spinning a solitary chip - then he stopped, looked at the clock and said, "all-in." Schwarmann's eyes reached for the sky and he mucked his hand. Markushevksi showed .
Then we had Kenni Nguyen moving all-in for 17,800 over a 4,000 under the gun raise. Nguyen had around ten multi-coloured necklaces hung around his neck and he put them into the pot as well.
"I am happy if you call and I am happy if you fold but I am telling you I have a monster...face down we have the same two cards, but face up? I have you beat," said Nguyen and his opponent folded his hand.
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for 4,600 and John Kim made the reluctant call from the big blind holding 
. The board ran out 
, Kim moved up to 23,000 and Katz was out of here.
and was called by David Tuthill and 
and Randy Lew moved all in. His opponent made the call fairly quickly and flipped over 
for a pair of jacks. Lew countered by exposing 
for the nut flush.
and after a long dwell he made the call. Born held 
and river 
