It was not that long ago that we were reporting Hayden Fortini with 188,000 chips. Then we see his name in the list of eliminations and assume that it must me a Jedi mind trick. We saunter over to his table and not only is Fortini missing, but so is D'Angelo.
Wait!
There's D'Angelo, hidden behind the biggest stack of the chips, this side of the Amazon Room! The players at the table filled in the pieces of the Hayden Fortini elimination jigsaw for us.
Kenny Hallaert opened under the gun, Fortini three-bet from the button, D'Angelo four-bet from the small blind, Hallaert folded, Fortini five-bet, D'Angelo jammed and Fortini called.
D'Angelo
Fortini
No ace or queen and Fortini was out. D'Angelo has 440,000 chips.
A player in middle position raised it up to 7,000 and action folded around to Sofia Lovgren in the cut-off who moved all in for 24,000. The rest of the table folded and the middle position player made the call.
Lovgren:
Opponent:
The flop came and Lovgren looked like she might pull this one through, but a on the turn brought a reversal of places with Lovgren now with the disadvantage.
The on the river though completed a straight for Lovgren, and she was awarded the pot.
We can confirm that Isaac Baron has been eliminated. We do not know what happened, but we know he has been knocked out. It seems our timing has been bad all day with Baron as we were never able to catch the man playing a hand.
Pascal LeFrancois announced himself on the world poker scene after winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #8: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $568,974. Then a few days later LeFrancois finished 11th in the Main Event itself where he secured another $635,011. So it goes without saying that LeFrancois understands the key ingredients to get through a large field. We are pretty sure that one of those key ingredients is luck, and here is LeFrancois grabbing a piece of it.
Le Francois moved all-in holding and was called by a player holding . The flop gave his opponent a set but did give LeFrancois a flush daw - . When the hit the turn, it was Le Francois's opponent who now needed lady luck to shine. The river didn't help either party and LeFrancois doubled up.
This is Andrew Youngblood's 9th WSOP cash and it could be his deepest yet. Youngblood has just eliminated an opponent v to take his total up to 240,000.
Here is another slew of eliminations. You may noticed Randy Lew and Rene Angelil have made their exit. We don't know what happened, but we can confirm they are done.
Moorman1 Chris Moorman38k left lost aj to k6 all in pre for 180k stack. Time to run it up again so the rollercoaster can continue #wsop46June 26 2012
Moorman1 Chris MoormanAnd out guy.limps in and tank calls off 13bb shove with at v my a2 sooted. Lost 6 out of last 7 allins. First cash of series tho #wsop46ggJune 26 2012
With ninety-five players remaining we realise that there is a long way to go, but Jeremy Quehen has just given himself a great chance to extend his deep run. As always, with any success story there is somebody who would rather things took a different course, and this time that man is Mike 'Timex' McDonald.
We caught the action on the flop and the pot was already enormous. It was heads-up, with Timex in the blinds, and he checked to Quehen when he saw the flop. Quehen pushed 40,500 towards McDonald and the pair stared directly into each other's eyes until Timex announced all-in - so softly - the dealer had to ask him twice. Quehen called and it was bad news.
Quehen
McDonald
The and sent McDonald's eyes to the roof of the Amazon room and the majority of his chips over to Quehen. McDonald was left with 30,000 and we believe Quehen has around 350,000 (his stack was still dirty when we left).