It's Monday and you know what that means, it's time for another episode of the PokerNews Podcast. Rich Ryan, Donnie Peters and Danielle Barille were joined by Matt Waxman to talk about the World Series of Poker, some Achtung and life after poker.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
2010 Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel opened to 12,000 from the cutoff position and was called by James Akenhead on the button. The blinds folded and the two were heads up going to the flop, which came 
.
Duhamel c-bet for 19,500 and Akenhead asked, "How much do you have behind?"
He glanced over at Duhamel's stack for a bit and made the call.
The turn brought a 
and this time Duhamel checked - prompting a 27,500 bet from Akenhead. Duhamel didn't take long to slide out a call.
Both players decided to check the 
river and Duhamel flipped over 
for a pair of kings.
Akenhead rapped the table in acknowledgement and slid his hand into the muck.
Duhamel is up to 270,000 while Akenhead has slipped to 240,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
270,000 | 52,000 |
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240,000 | -80,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000 | 120,000 |
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355,000 | 210,000 |
|
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340,000 | 140,000 |
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330,000 | 270,000 |
|
315,000 | -155,000 |
|
225,000 | 65,000 |
|
124,000 | 83,000 |
|
97,000 | 12,000 |
|
80,000 | |
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60,000 | -65,000 |
Arthur Morris just doubled up in a big way through one of the big stacks in the tournament, Stephen Reynolds. After Reynolds raised from early position to 12,500 and a player flat-called from the cutoff seat, Morris reraised on the button to 30,500. Play folded back to Reynolds and he took some time before reraising to 59,500. The cutoff seat folded before Morris reraised all in for 222,500. Reynolds snapped and a massive pot was created.
Reynolds showed the 
, but he was behind the for Morris. After a 
board, Reynolds was send best and his hand tossed into the muck. Morris collected the chips and stormed his way up the leader board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
470,000 | |
|
373,000 | -207,000 |
It all started with an open to 12,000 from David Benyamine. The player directly on his left was Bryan Piccioli and he made the call. Another player also through in a call and then it was on Kevin MacPhee in the blinds. At this point MacPhee opted to go with the three-bet shove and it was an extra 45,000 to his opponents. Benyamine didn't want anything to do with the hand and folded, while it wouldn't take long for Piccioli to make the call. The one remaining player got out of the way and the MacPhee's tournament life was at risk.
MacPhee: 
Piccioli: 
"Liv! Im all in. I've got kings v. ace-ten," MacPhee called to Liv Boeree who was now watching MacPhee from the rail.
The 
board was safe for MacPhee as he took down the double-up late into the evening.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
350,000 | -50,000 |
|
165,000 | 90,000 |
It must be nice to be in Brian Rast right now.
In a recent hand, Brian Lemke opened from the cutoff and was 3-bet by Brian Rast from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Lemke responded by 4-bet shoving all-in for his last 120,000. Rast quickly called and hands were revealed.
Rast: 
Lemke: 
Rast was in dominating shape to eliminate Lemke, and did just that, as the board ran out 
, leaving Rast with trip aces for the win.
Rast appears to be our current chip leader with 600,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000 | 120,000 |
|
Busted |
Scott Seiver just doubled up from 116,000 to about 250,000. He was all in preflop with the 
versus an opponent's . Seiver flopped a ten and held from there on the 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 115,000 |
From the cutoff seat, Giorgio Medici raised to 15,500. Action then folded over to Pratyush Buddiga in the big blind and he reraised all in for 125,000. Medici quickly called.
Medici:
Buddiga: 
The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Buddiga was eliminated.
In 2002, Buddiga won the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee contest — two years before his younger brother took down the same title. He bested 249 other contestants to win the title and $12,000. Although Buddiga didn't advance out of today, he did lock up another cash for his record.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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470,000 | 255,000 |
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Busted |