As we are walking around and trying to find the big stacks, we have spotted our first player who has more then 100,000. That player is Wade Townsend, who by his estimation, has 110,000.
The player under the gun made it 1,800, and JP Kelly moved all in for 9,300 in middle position. It folded around to the player in the big blind, and once he got a count, he announced "call." The original raiser folded, and we were off to the races.
Kelly:
Opponent:
Kelly was able to survive the flop: . However, the came on the turn, meaning that Kelly would need an eight or a seven to survive the hand. The river was the , and Kelly was busted about 50 players from the money.
We do not know what happened but we heard a load noise coming from the back of silver. It was Antonio Esfandiari yelling ,"One time in your life!" He seemed to be all in and apparently he lost as after his outburst he headed for the door.
Darryll Fish raised to 3,700 after his opponent bet 1,600 preflop. Fish's opponent tanked for a long time. He finally put himself at risk by saying "all in." Fish called and they flipped up their cards.
Fish: (9d}
Opponent:
The flop didn't leave a sweat as Fish's opponent flopped a set with the THe other two cards did not matter and and Fish sent over half his chips to his opponent.
The clock says 260 players are left, but only 198 of them will be in the money. With 75 minutes left in the night, it looks like we will be on pace to hit the money tonight, but the eliminations could very well slow down in the final level.
Amanda Musumeci moved her shorter stack all in. An opponent a few seats down shipped his stack all in. The others folded and Musumeci and her opponent turned their hands over.
Musumeci:
Opponent:
The flop came giving Musumeci's opponent a flopped set and put Musumeci in a big hole.
There was some hope on the turn when it came the . An ace or a queen would give Musumeci a winning full house.
The river, the put a straight on the board but Musumeci's opponent held the for the rivered Royal Flush!
Musumeci exited and her opponent was so excited. He told the table that was his first Royal ever and it was a great way to win one!
Circuit King Alex Masek had grinded up a decent stack of 15,000 coming into this level, but he busted as soon as he returned. We didn't catch the hand, but he did tweet the details.