There are 1,008 players left and twelve minutes to go before the dinners embark on a ninety-minute dinner break. With an average stack size now in the region of 10,000 let's have a look at the goings on in the Silver Section.
Martin Finger has won over $1 million in live tournament earnings playing on the European Tours which includes a European Poker Tour (EPT) title. Now the youngster has turned twenty-one we expect big things from him once he acclimitises to the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Here is Finger doubling up.
There was a raise to 450 when Finger moved all-in for 3,625 on the button. The player in the hijack called and we had a showdown with Finger at risk of elimination.
Finger
Hijack
Board:
So Martin Finger has doubled up, but the man with the largest chip stack in the Silver section is Andrew Dean with 45,000 chips.
We don't know exactly how the action went, but Dominik Nitsche has just doubled up a short stacked opponent after his couldn't compete with his opponent's after a board was exposed.
DutchBoyd Dutch BoydIn the 1k lotto. Some dude punted 6k my way with 64s right before dinner. Called his allin with JTo. Have 31k+ and @toddbterry to my left.July 01 2012
toddbterry Todd Terry8500 at dinner. JJ held this time vs AJo aipf, had too much equity in the first one obv. #WSOP1KJuly 01 2012
PearlJammed Jon TurnerVirtually always light... Original raiser calls 20 bbs w ATo, flop 355cc, he fades, no prob... Next up $1500 tomorrow I thinkJuly 01 2012
The flop read and Shannon Shorr moved all in for his last 2,000 in chips. The short stacked Shorr received a call from a player in later position and cards were tabled.
Shorr:
Opponent:
The turn fell the and the river came the and with that Shorr was awarded a double up.
Along with that, here are some updated counts from around the room.
Michael Craig has 6 World Series of Poker (WSOP) cashes to his name, including a 2nd place finish in the 2009 $2,500 Seven Card Stud event for $116,405. Craig is currently the man with the largest stack in the Golden Section and is residing at Table 14.
Not far behind Craig is the Canadian Chris Arvanitis who just moved up to 45,000 after crushing the spirit of the Italian Alessio Isaia. We joined the action with three players each with 4,250 splayed in front of them. There was a young lady all-in in the cutoff, Isaia in mid-position and Arvanitis in the hijack seat. The dealer gave the three of them the glitzy looking flop of . Isaia was first to act and he bet 4,250 and Arvanitis immediately announced all-in. Isaia didn't look very happy but he made the call and was ahead when the cards were turned over.
Arvanitis
Isaia
Cut Off
So Isaia was ahead and as no-one had the flush outs he was just trying to fade a king, queen or a strange set of runner-runner combinations.
Turn:
Arvanitis filled up and the River concluded the action. Isaia was forced to hand over 15,300 chips leaving him with just 800 chips.
Isaia then folded the next hand before moving all-in for 750. He was called in 2 spots until the big blind moved all-in to isolate the Italian and it worked.
We don't know exactly what happened, but with a board exposed Joey Weissman was being pushed a double up. Weissman had for the flopped straight. We don't know what his opponent had, but we know it couldn't beat Weissman.
A table over sits Dutch Boyd who happened to be playing a hand as well. The flop read and both players checked. The on the turn brought a bet of 1,200 from Boyd. The later position player moved all in and Boyd snap called.
Boyd:
Opponent:
Boyd has his opponent drawing dead and was going to take down yet another pot.