All day the Brasilia Room has been full of laughter and chatter that can only be found when you put 954 poker playing women in a single room. With only 45 more eliminations needed to secure a payday, the chatter has decreased significantly, partly because the room is minus 3/4 of its starting players and also because the money bubble is approaching. It appears the women are buckling down and focused on achieving the first major milestone on the way to the gold bracelet.
A player moved all in preflop from early position, and action folded around to Annie Liu, who quickly called. Everyone else folded. Lui turned over , and the all-in player showed . The board ran out , and Liu's kings held.
Two big stacks at the table put all their money in preflop in a cooler hand: aces versus kings. Lynne Beaumont had the aces and had her opponent covered. Her aces held up to give her a substantial stack as we near the money.
Ashley Bleeth had spent the better part of the evening on the short stack and moved it all with . Uyen Phan has the big stack at the table and called with .
The flop fell and Phan's pair holds up to eliminate Bleeth from the tournament. This win puts Phan's stack as one of the biggest in the room.
Jennifer Miller just busted opponents on back-to-back hands. In the first, she held against her all-in opponent's . The flop came giving Miller a winning two pair.
The following hand, Miller held , and called an all-in bet from an opponent with . The board ran out .
After the series of hands, Miller's stack is up to 34,000.
Pui "Percy" Yung just busted another player, her second in as many hands. The money went all in preflop and Yung went to the flop in the lead. As the were turning over their hands, Yung's opponent exclaimed, "there is no way I can be good here." And she wasn't.
Yung:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Yung's kicker played crediting her with another bust out.