2011 WSOP bracelet winner Jason Somerville is on the upward trend after sending a player to the rail just moments ago. Somerville, who won a $1,000 no-limit hold'em event last summer for $493,091, five-bet shoved with preflop and his opponent called off his entire stack with . The flop left Somerville without much of a sweat, and the turn and river bricked to increase his stack to 38,000.
Shannon Shorr for those who might not know is a 26 year old professional player from Alabama who slowly seems to be gathering chips. In a recent hand we saw him call the all in of a short stack with . His opponent held a measly and after the dealer spread a Shorr was awarded the pot and not sits around 28,000.
Shorr who cashed in two events last year, including the main event is looking to make a strong run early in this year's WSOP.
Whenever we saunter past Victor Ramdin's table, the Team PokerStars Pro seems to be stirring up action. This time, we caught up with Ramdin and Eric Baldwin staring at a board of . Ramdin had bet 7,500 on the river and Baldwin was deep in the tank. With less than 1,000 chips behind, Baldwin made the call and mucked when Ramdin tabled for Jacks full.
Ramdin is now among the chip leaders here on Day 1, and Baldwin is on the short stack with less than five big blinds.
There is an empty chair where WSOP bracelet Davidi Kitai was residing just before the break. Here is David Sands and Gavin Smith debating about the finer details of the hand.
"Doc, do you know how Kitai was eliminated?"
"He called a bet against Gavin on an ace, six, eight…there was a four on the river because Gavin hit a sneaky two pair on the river and Kitai had ace-king for one pair."
"It was an ace, six, nine, eight, four board and David is missing the fact that I turned a flush draw," said Smith.
"Please don't report the flush draw because there is no evidence it happened," said Sands.
"It happened," said Smith.
Well whether it happened or not it seems Kitai is out at the hand of Smith losing to .
A short stacked Betrand Grospellier just moved all in for his remaining 3,025. This Frenchman won his first bracelet last year in $10,000 7 card stud championship and got to take home a cool $331,639. Grospellier is looking to have some of the same success this year. That success however will have to wait another day.
ElkY quickly received a call from the button. Action then folded to the big blind who moved all in. The button then folded and cards were tabled.
Big Blind:
Grospellier:
A flop sealed the deal. ElkY was done and he was already halfway out the door when the and the fell for the turn and the river.
With two WSOP final tables to his name, including a 2nd place in last years $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six Max event for $383,075, Hans Winzeler knows a thing or two about getting the WSOP job done. He is currently motoring along at the same table as James Dempsey, David Vamplew et al. We have just seen him move up to 48,000 chips after eliminating an opponent in a versus confrontation.
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The head of the Chris Moorman stable is out!
It sure makes a difference when the Table of Death is situated right next to our work station. We just noticed a furore over at Table #5 and jumped up to see Chris Moorman all-in versus Kirill Kruglov.
Kruglov
Moorman
It was Moorman at risk and he was dead on the turn.
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preflop and his opponent called off his entire stack with 
. The 
flop left Somerville without much of a sweat, and the turn and river bricked to increase his stack to 38,000.
and after the dealer spread a 
Shorr was awarded the pot and not sits around 28,000.
. Ramdin had bet 7,500 on the river and Baldwin was deep in the tank. With less than 1,000 chips behind, Baldwin made the call and mucked when Ramdin tabled 
for Jacks full.
losing to 
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and the 
fell for the turn and the river.
