The players are now on a 20-minute break.
2013 World Series of Poker
The Alexey Rybin express keeps right on rolling, as we just saw him take another huge pot off of start-of-day-2 chip leader Matt O'Donnell to add further to his chip-leading stack as Level 12 nears its close.
We arrived on the turn to see a ![]()
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board and O'Donnell firing 42,000 into the middle. Rybin called the bet, and Nacho Barbero folded from the button.
The pot was already big when the river brought the
and O'Donnell pushed out another bet of around 100,000. Rybin sat quietly for just a moment, then said he was reraising the pot and O'Donnell quickly folded, preserving just 40,000 or so behind.
Rybin tabled his cards — ![]()
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for the nut straight — and collected the big pot. O'Donnell managed to double up once right before the break, but he's still sitting with less than a third of his starting stack.
After a series of bets and raised, Fabian Brandes was all in and at risk preflop against Alexander Kostritsyn.
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flop gave Kostitsyn a pair of queens and a gut-shot straight draw, and the
on the turn gave him a leading two pair, but the
completed the board, giving Brandes aces up.
He doubled to 44,000 chips, while Kostritsyn fell to 12,000.
Ramzi Jelassi, who took down the EPT Prague Main Event last December for over a million dollars, checked on a flop of ![]()
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. A second player checked as well, Daniel Alaei fired out 6,000, and Morten Stenheim called. Jelassi moved all in for 23,600, and the action folded to Stenheim, who called.
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Jelassi's two pair held as the turn and river both produced black sevens, and he doubled to 75,000 chips.
Paul Pierce raised to 4,000 from the cutoff seat and George Danzer called from the button. A player in the small blind then reraised to 18,000, and both Pierce and Danzer called.
The flop came ![]()
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. The player in the small blind pushed all in, Pierce called, but Danzer stepped aside.
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(a pair of kings) while his opponent tabled ![]()
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(a pair of aces). The turn was the
and river the
, and the all-in player survived.
We only arrived at the aftermath, but a big all-in confrontation had just completed involving Alexey Rybin and David Paredes that saw the latter lose all of his big stack to Rybin.
Rybin now sits with more than 550,000, the biggest stack in the room at the moment with about 110 players remaining.
A four-way hand just developed involving Dustin Dirksen (big blind), Lassel King (middle position), David Chiu (late position), and Paul Pierce (button). Preflop action between the four saw Dirksen all in with his short stack, and Chiu having called a big reraise from King while Pierce got out after having contributed one call.
The flop then came ![]()
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, and when King led with a bet Chui folded. Dirksen then showed ![]()
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and King ![]()
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, and after the
turn and
river, King had made a winning flush and Dirksen is out.
Three players took a flop of ![]()
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, including Jeremy Druckman and Frank Kassela. The player in the big blind checked, Druckman fired out 8,000, and Kassela raised to 21,000. The player in the big blind folded, Druckman moved all in for 33,200, and Kassela called.
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The turn and river came
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respectively, and Druckman was eliminated. Kassela now has 197,000 chips.