After notching a huge double up earlier when his flopped quads took down a turned full house, Duck-Sin Jong has continued to climb the chip counts.
We caught Jong taking down a sizable pot with just a single post flop bet, after five players contributed 350 a piece to the pot preflop.
When the dealer fanned the across the felt, the action checked around to Jong, who tossed out 700 to claim the pot. Although Jong took this one down without much of a contest, he did suffer a prolonged staredown from one opponent in particular: the man who just had his full house bulldozed by Jong's quads.
THere are 45 minutes left on the clock for this level. This is the last level people can register and re-enter, at the beginning of the fifth level registration for today will be closed. Since registration is still possible in the 20 minute break following this level, registration is open for 65 more minutes total. So far the clock makes mention of 2,007 entries.
Antonio Esfandiari (Seen Here Competing in the Big One for One Drop)
Antonio Esfandiari has just taken his seat here at the Little One for Big Drop, and the winner of the original Big One for One Drop had a few questions for the dealer.
"So I can rebuy if I bustout, right?," he asked, obviously ready to gamble in this reentry format. "I have to go over there to buy though?"
After sorting through the logistics of the event, Esfandiari returned his focus to the game at hand, and he will be looking to add a Little title to the Big One he earned last year.
We hadn't seen Liv Boeree before, but she's playing 12,000 at the moment. Some of that stack she just won recently as she busted a player with . Her opponent had and didn't improve on | | .
Andy Bloch (Seen Here Playing an Earlier WSOP Event)
Without his signature snakeskin cowboy hat, Andy Bloch has maintained a low profile thus far at the 2013 World Series of Poker, escaping the media attention he generated during past years. With three cashes to his credit thus far, however, Bloch has proven that his skills on the felt have not dulled during his down time.
Bloch is here today competing in the Little One for One Drop, and he is faring quite well midway through the day.
We caught Bloch raising to 375 from early position, after a player limped in from under the gun. The two went heads-up to the flop, which fell . The limper tried a feeler bet of 425, and Bloch flatted to take the on the turn. Both palyers tapped the table when the third five arrived, and the completed the board on the river.
After another check to him by the limper, Bloch tossed out a bet of 850 and that was enough to force the fold. Bloch has doubled his starting stack already, and with fellow pros firing their second, third, and even fourth bullets already, the dangerous pro has moved ahead of the pack.
It's almost unfair for the other players at the table, but Steven van Zadelhoff just hit another set and got paid off once again. In the last hand we reported from him, he had kings and hit top set. Now he had aces and again he hit top set, this time on the turn. His opponent paid off Van Zadelhoff on all three streets and mucked eventually.
With the 2012 Big One for One Drop rating as a rousing success, generating nearly $6 million in charitable contributions for water-related causes around the developing world, the connection between the poker community and concern over worldwide water shortages would appear to be cut and dry.
Today's Little One for One Drop is being played under the same premise, with a portion of every buy-in and reentry being devoted to the One Drop's assortment of charities, but many of the players in attendance today seem to have forgotten what they are really playing for.
Hundreds of tiny water bottles litter the Brasilia Room's floor, as players try to stay hydrated during the intense heat wave overwhelming Las Vegas during this especially brutal summer season. Despite the drought-like conditions afflicting the American southwest, the most precious fluid on Earth is flowing freely here at the Rio, with many players guzzling down the pint-sized disposable bottles in a single gulp.
Poker is a game defined by irony, with close friends taking one another's money in remorseless fashion, and deception prized as a valued skill, but the discordance between this tournament's ostensible objective and the unquenchable thirst of this two thousand runner field is inescapable.
When we arrived at the table Maria Ho already had her stack of about a 1,000 in chips in the middle. The player next to her still had to make a decision but there was something going on. Someone had pointed out that Zohair Karim in the big blind had three cards in front of him. Two of them he had received this hand, the third card was stuck under the rail, most likely since the last hand.
Two floor persons came over and they listened to what had happened. If there was disagreement if the card had been stuck there since the last hand, they would check the cameras. If it was stuck there since the last hand, the deck would be ruled foul as the deck shuffled didn't include all 52 cards. If the dealer would have dealt the third card in this hand than the deck would not be foul and the hand would continue since there had already been significant action.
Eventually everybody agreed that the card had been stuck there since the last hand, and thus ruled the deck foul so the hand would not be played. Maria Ho took her chips back, and the two players behind her showed the and respectively. Did Ho just got a second life? Or was she denied a double up or re-entry with just a couple of minutes on the clock?
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across the felt, the action checked around to Jong, who tossed out 700 to claim the pot. Although Jong took this one down without much of a contest, he did suffer a prolonged staredown from one opponent in particular: the man who just had his full house bulldozed by Jong's quads.
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respectively. Did Ho just got a second life? Or was she denied a double up or re-entry with just a couple of minutes on the clock?