Leading Table #369 is the Irishman Jason Tompkins. Tompkins is currently enjoying his 2nd cash, this series, after cashing in Event #46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em just last week.
Nghi Van Tran started out this recent hand by raising it up to 16,000. Action folded around to Kenneth Shelton on the button who min-raised to 32,000, leaving behind around 22,000. The rest of the table folded and it was back to Tran who made the call.
The flop came and Tran placed a bet that would put Shelton all in. Shelton said "I'm probably behind, but I have no choice" and made the call. Shelton was wrong though and his was ahead. Tran tabled for a measly pair of nines.
The on the turn though was a dagger to Shelton who now found himself behind in the hand. A then fell for the river and that was it for Shelton's tournament life.
Dash Dudley is no longer seated at his table and his former table mates were kind enough to explain why. It seems that Dudley opened from under the gun with pocket aces and Clayton Fletcher called in the big blind holding . Fletcher check-called a Dudley flop bet, before the appeared on the turn, and they both got it in with disastrous consequences for Dudley.
Clayton Fletcher raised it up to 13,500 from middle position and Kyle Fleishman in late position moved all in for around 56,000. The rest of the table folded and it was back on Fletcher who took a few seconds before announcing a call.
Fletcher actually had the lead with , while his opponent held . A flop though took that lead away and gave it to the short stack.
The on the turn gave a little hope to Fletcher, but the on the river shattered it and Fleishman was awarded the double up. Despite losing the hand Fletcher still sits with around 330,000.
Luis Campelo is one of the forty-three remaining names after doubling up through Robert Brown. It was the of Campelo that out flipped the of Brown in a pre flop encounter. The board was and Campelo moved up to 241,000, whilst Brown now has 310,000.
Here is the situation over at Table #368 and a certain David 'Bakes' Baker currently has the table chip lead with 455,000 chips. Baker has already won 2 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and is out to make it number 3.