In the last hand before the break, Paul Volpe raised from middle position, then the player in the cutoff reraised to 6,100. It folded back to Volpe who made it 19,000 to go, his opponent shoved all in, and Volpe snap-called.
Volpe's opponent showed , but Volpe had the better pair with . As players filed out of the Amazon room, the community cards came , and Volpe's opponent won't be returning from the break. Meanwhile, Volpe cracks a quarter million.
Randy Lew opened for 2,300 from the hijack seat and found one caller in Dag Martin Mikkelsen in the big blind.
The flop came and both players checked.
The turn brought the and Mikkelsen check-called a 2,800 bet from Lew.
When the completed the board, Mikkelsen checked once more - prompting a 6,800 bet from Lew. Mikkelsen tank-called and Lew flipped over for jacks-full of tens. Mikkelsen mucked and Lew scooped the pot.
Robert Croak, the creative mind behind Silly Bandz, just eliminated a player holding the . The player at risk was all in with , and failed to connect with the flop, turn, or river, eliminating him from the 2012 Main Event.
We caught up with the action with the board reading . A player checked the action and Viktor Blom bet 9,800 into a pot of over 14,000. Blom's opponent thought for about a minute before calling.
The rivered and they both checked. Blom's opponent showed and Blom mucked his hand. He's currently sitting on about 175,000.
A player in middle position opened for 2,300, and Josh Arieh leaned over to look at his neighbor's short stack. Arieh's own stack has been up and down today, currently sitting below the 100,000-chip mark.
After some thought, the third-place finisher in the 2004 WSOP Main Event decided to reraise to 6,300, and when it folded back around his opponent let it go.
Randy Lew started the action out in a recent hand by making it 2,600 to see the flop. A middle position player made the call and the hijack player did the same. Next it was on Andy Frankenberger on the button who took about a minute to decide what he wanted to do. In the end Frankenberger threw it away.
The small blind folded and action found itself on a big blinded Johnny Chan. Chan took a few moments and pushed forward a stack of chips for a raise. Chan made it 12,000 and action was back to Lew who took about a minute before announcing "all in". The rest of the table folded back to Chan, who quickly made the call making Lew the one at risk. Cards were turned over, and it was Chan who was well out in front.
Chan:
Lew:
Lew was going to need to grab hold of something if he wanted to continue his Main Event run. The board came and with that Lew's Main Event and World Series of Poker was over.
nanonoko Randy LewI raise KK utg to 2600, 2 people flat, Johnny Chan in the BB squeezes to 12000 and I jam for 52000 and he snaps with AA. Main event over -_-July 11 2012