Bill McAdams has had a roller-coaster ride of a tournament, but right now he's riding high. After being down to only two 2,000 in chips when he moved to his current table, he's managed to build quite a stack.
We caught up with McAdams when he got all his chips in the middle with on a flop of . Unfortunately for McAdams, Joseph Dornish held and had flopped a set. Then the dealer turned the , giving McAdams one of his two outs to take the lead again. The river was a brick, and McAdams doubled up.
Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon raised from the cutoff to 8,700. The small blind reraised to 20,000 and after Kroon called, the was dealt. The small blind checked and Kroon moved all in. Kroon was animated waiting for the decision of his opponent, looking at the dealer "did he say call"?
Without missing a beat, the dealer responded: "No. He is sitting on the side with my good ear and I know for sure he didn't say a thing."
In the end, the small blind ended up folding. Kroon allowed his opponent to see one card which was . Kroon yelled, "I didn't come to fold fours. Boom."
As Kroon was stacking chips, another player at the table asked how much the small blind reraised preflop. After his reply of 20,000, the player said "You need to raise to 22,000 and then he would fold. Don't you know he's P0ker H0? There is a whole article on how to raise get him to fold."
With all-in lammers seemingly in the pot on every table we pass by, the action is intensifying here on Day 2, with bustouts occurring regularly and in rapid succession throughout the Amazon Room.
Whenever two players are pitted against one another preflop, fireworks are just a board card away, and two recent hands showed just how fickle the fates can be when it comes to poker.
First, we watched Ed Hayes move all in over the top of an opening raise to 4,800. An opponent in the next seat immediately announced himself all in as well, and when the original bettor got out of the way, Hayes was racing with against his opponent's .
The flop of did not improve Hayes at all, and in fact, he lost kings as an out with his opponent finding an open-ended straight draw. When the arrived on the turn, Hayes pimped his fist in celebration, knowing he was now a huge favorite to win a sizable pot and survive his all-in encounter. The river muddled the picture just a bit, bringing the on board, and while Hayes' opponent mistakenly believed he had spiked a winning set of jacks, he was still second best to Hayes' Broadway straight.
In the next hand just a few tables away, we heard one player's anguished yelp, and found a distraught senior with laid out in front of his stack. The board read , and although the aces appeared to be a good hand, they had been outran by Jim Downend's via runner-runner straight. With the come from behind win, Downend moved to over 70,000 on the day, and with short stacks going broke left and right, he is in much better position to avoid the kind of bad beat he just benefited from.
Before the break, Alex Kunichoff, one of the chip leaders in the event, was moved to the left of 2002 Main Event Champion Robert Varkonyi. With the rising blinds, Varkonyi's stack is starting to look a little short, and with Kunichoff next to him, he's in a tough seat, but he's holding his own. After recently moving all in preflop and not receiving any callers, Varkonyi is up to 46,000.
The seemingly inevitable clash between Kunichoff and Varkonyi didn't take long to materialize. Kunichoff limped under the gun, on player called, and the Varkonyi shoved all in from the big blind. Only Kunichoff called. He turned over , and Varkonyi held . The board rolled out giving Kunichoff a pair but giving Varkonyi the lead with a low straight. The on the turn killed Kunichoff's chances of winning the hand, but gave him outs to a chop. However, the on the river secured the pot for Varkonyi, who doubled up and now has 75,000. Kunichoff, after the hit to his stack, still sits with 270,000.
It's just another day at the office for Hoyt Corkins. After finishing fourth in this event last year, he knows there is still a lot of work ahead of him. He is sitting nicely with a slightly above average stack, as he has for most the of the day.
We came to the table as he was faced with the all in bet of 16,500 from the small blind. The flop was already on the board and Corkins made the call. He turned over and was happy to see he was up against . The turn and river didn't change anything and Corkins wins with the better ace.
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. Unfortunately for McAdams, Joseph Dornish held 
, giving McAdams one of his two outs to take the lead again. The river was a brick, and McAdams doubled up.
was dealt. The small blind checked and Kroon moved all in. Kroon was animated waiting for the decision of his opponent, looking at the dealer "did he say call"?
against his opponent's 
.
did not improve Hayes at all, and in fact, he lost kings as an out with his opponent finding an open-ended straight draw. When the 
on board, and while Hayes' opponent mistakenly believed he had spiked a winning set of jacks, he was still second best to Hayes' Broadway straight.
laid out in front of his stack. The board read 
, and although the aces appeared to be a good hand, they had been outran by Jim Downend's 
. The board rolled out 
on the turn killed Kunichoff's chances of winning the hand, but gave him outs to a chop. However, the 
on the river secured the pot for Varkonyi, who doubled up and now has 75,000. Kunichoff, after the hit to his stack, still sits with 270,000.
flop was already on the board and Corkins made the call. He turned over 
. The 
turn and river didn't change anything and Corkins wins with the better ace.