We reported earlier how Alessio Isaia had flopped a straight only to be outdrawn by the full house of Chris Arvanitis. He then quadrupled up before being eliminated by Williams Spohn. We don't know the exact details but Isaia was all-in holding pocket treys and Spohn held . The flop ran out with a Broadway straight and the man with $2 million in live tournament earnings is out.
With 670 players left and an average stack of 9,600 let's give you some news from the Silver Section.
The Brazilian Joao Simao and the American pairing of Will Jaffe and Jason Helder are both making good progress with 67,000 and 55,000 respectively. Also Justin Schwartz has just taken a big pot from Steven Van Zadelhoff to move up to 57,000.
Muhamet Perati is a player who is getting lost in the midst of his growing stack of ante chips. Here he is moving up to 65,000 with the mighty proving that when you run hot…you run hot.
The cutoff raised to 725 and Perati called in the big blind. The action checked through to the turn on a board of before Perati bet 1,125 and his opponent quickly called. The river card was the and Perati fired a second salvo worth 3,800. His opponent started to make strange shapes with his face, but he finally called. Perati flipped over the and his opponent mucked.
The English duo of Chris Moorman and John Eames are sitting on side to side tables. Moorman currently has 22,200 chips and Eames has 13,000 after losing a few in the following hand.
A player in early position raised to 900, Eames three-bet to 2,100 in the cutoff and an older gentlemen flew into the pot with an all-in shove from the blinds. The original raiser folded and the decision was back on Eames.
"Could you have thought about it just for a little bit," Eames said before reluctantly folding his hand.
Players who seem to have waved bye-bye to this event include Andreas Hoivold, Ray Henson, David Peters, Isaac Haxton, Leo Margets, Leonid Bilokur, Nacho Barbero and Luca Moschitta.
Dutch Boyd seems to be involved with every pot when we walk by, recent we found him involved in a had with a board reading . Boyd's opponent was first to act and he opted to check. Boyd did the same and both players were witness to the on the turn. It was here that Boyd's opponent bet out 3,600. Boyd took his time pondering his best option before making the call.
The on the river saw Boyd's opponent take a some time off the clock before checking. Boyd then slowly put out a casual bet of 4,000. The early position player went into the tank, draining a minute or two away before eventually throwing his cards into the muck.
Dominik Nitsche is out but at least he has escaped compulsory Rorschach testing after being driven completely mad by the player to his right. Nitsche lost when he shoved and ran into some cowboys looking for a fight in a saloon, but who cares about that? Back to Nitsche and his delicate mental state. The player to his right kept stacking his chips in a way that Donald Trump would not appreciate. Then he would balance his tic-tacs on the top. The tic-tacs would fall every few hands or so and everytime they did Nitsche started to squint like Dreyfuss from the Pink Panther. We think the elimination is the best thing that could have happened to the young German - enjoying his first ever World Series of Poker (WSOP - otherwise he would have hit him over the head with his pencil case.
Now let's get back to someone in full control of all their faculties. Neil Channing has just been battered down to 5k. Here he is explaining how in his own tweet.
SenseiChanning Neil ChanningOuch. Lost 13k pot with the AA vs 6d7d. Man waited intil turn to shove his flush draw. Back to 5k. Had been starting to enjoy today.July 01 2012
As we enter the final stretch we have 540 players remaining and an average chip stack of 17,894. We have just walked through the Gold section of the Brasilia room and here is the news.
World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder, David Diaz, is out. He was eliminated pre flop when his could not find the magical card combination required to beat the of Gionni Demers. Demers who finished 20th in last years Main Event for $302,005 now has 55,000 chips.
Michael Craig has dropped down to 45,000 and Chris Arvanitis remains on a steady 44,000. Joining the top of the chip counts in the Gold Section are Gianluca Rullo (60k) and Jia Liu (60k).
A player in early position raised it up to 1,400 and action folded to Paul Magriel who three-bet to 4,400. The rest of the table folded and it was back to the initial raiser who four-bet to 9,200. Magriel allowed for a couple of minutes to drain off the clock while he decided what to do. In the end though Magriel announced "all in", a bet that would put his opponent all in for his remaining 7,000. The early position player made the call and was at risk.
Magriel:
Opponent:
The flop came sling-shotting Magriel into the lead as he grabbed hold of an eight. The on the turn secured the victory, and Magriel's opponent was drawing dead. A meaningless fell on the river and Magriel just moved up to one of the top stacks in the room.
Magriel has yet to cash at this year's World Series of Poker, but if he keeps running like he is cashing in this event should be a breeze.
In a few minutes time we are going to lose the green chips, and it's about time because the stacks are starting to get pretty sizeable. A few of the players who have sizeable stacks include Gianluca Rullo (84k), Jonas Mackoff (80k), Mark Herm (80k), Joao Simao (76k), Will Jaffe (72k) and the new chip leader Nick Abou Risk with 86,000.
Players out include Jason Helder (hence the beefed up stack of Mackoff), Jason Wheeler (after running a set of kings into a set of aces…ouch!), Ylon Schwartz, Ogjnen Sekularac and a funny hand involving World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder Craig McCorkell and here it is.
We arrived at the table with the full board out on display.
Board:
The chips were being pushed in the direction of a player holding in front of him, and they were being taken out of the stack of an empty seat. The table told us that the seat belonged to Craig McCorkell. Once the count had been complete McCorkell (who had called a shove holding on the turn) still had around 500 chips left. John Eames - who was sharing a table with McCorkell rang him on his mobile number and told him to return to the table.
When McCorkell got back Eames raised to 1,200, McCorkell moved all-in blind and the rest of the table allowed them to have a showdown. Eames showed pocket fives and McCorkell turned over pocket queens. The player to Eames left then tells him that he folded a five leaving just one out in the deck - cue the board.
Board:
Eames hits his one outer which pays for the price of the phone call needed to get McCorkell back to his seat.