With 5,000 in the pot and a board reading , Lucille Cailly bet 3,100 from middle position and Rupert Elder called her from the hijack. When the completed the board on the river, Cailly gather up a bet and then dropped in chips totaling 2,150.
Elder reached into his stack and pulled out enough to make the call, which is what he did. Cailly rapped the table to indicate she didn't have a winning hand, and Elder then flipped over the for a flopped two pair. With that, Elder is a little over 100,000.
We caught Olivier Elissalde calling a river bet on a queen-high board containing three clubs, and while his opponent held , the Frenchman tabled for a flush by the turn.
With the win, Elissalde moved into the upper echelon of the Day 1b chip counts, and with just 51 minutes remaining in the last level of play, he is poised to bag and tag one of the biggest stacks in the room.
The action started with the player in early position opening to 850, before being met with a raise to 2,200 from the player to his left. Georges St. Pierre was on the small blind, and made the call, before their opponent on the big blind bumped it up to 6,200. The first two players folded their hands, leaving St. Pierre as the lone caller.
The flop came down , and St. Pierre bet out 500 which was called, before leading out for 5,000 when the fell on the turn. His opponent moved all in, and he snap called for less, as both players rolled over their cards.
St. Pierre:
Opponent:
St. Pierre had out-flopped his opponent, and was in great shape to double up. The didn’t help his opponent, as he moves up to 40,000 in chips.
Sorel Mizzi just approached one of our field reporters, telling them that he has been at his table all day, and hasn’t seen a single elimination, yet he has 120,000 in chips.
With each of the other eight players sitting below starting stack; it’s safe to say that Mizzi is dominating his table closing in on the end of Day 1b.
To succeed as a poker player, you sometimes need a little bit of luck. Actually, you need a lot of luck. If Adrienne Rowsome was a cat, she would have used up at least six or seven of her lives in a hand that took place moments ago.
Rowsome opened in the hijack and the small blind defended by three-betting to 3,900. Rowsome wait a considerable length of time before calling. The flop was greeted with an all-in bet from the big blind, a bet that was 9,775 effective due to Rowsome's stack.
"I hate all of my options right now," said Rowsome, who looked like she was backed into a corner. A minute passed before she said, "I hate everything!"
No sooner had Rowsome said that last line, she stacked her chips into a single tower and called the all in.
Big blind:
Rowsome:
"Your sizing was so huge!" said Rowsome as she stood from her chair. The dealer put the onto the felt giving the big blind a straight and leaving Rowsome drawing to either an ace or six for a chop.
"How about a six?" Rowsome asked the dealer. As if by magic, the river was the , and Rowsome survived!
On the board, Maxim Lykov's opponent fired a bet of 9,000 into an already substantial pot, but the Russian pro responded with a raise to 25,000.
The avalanche of orange T5000 tournament chips buried the other player, and he quickly folded to Lykov's power play.
As Day 1b of the Main Event edges nearer to its conclusion, pros like Lykov are wielding their big stacks like weapons, clubbing their exhausted opponents repeatedly to extract as many chips as possible heading into the bag-and-tag portion of the night.
, Lucille Cailly bet 3,100 from middle position and Rupert Elder called her from the hijack. When the 
completed the board on the river, Cailly gather up a bet and then dropped in chips totaling 2,150.
for a flopped two pair. With that, Elder is a little over 100,000.
, the Frenchman tabled 
for a flush by the turn.
, and St. Pierre bet out 500 which was called, before leading out for 5,000 when the 
fell on the turn. His opponent moved all in, and he snap called for less, as both players rolled over their cards.
didn’t help his opponent, as he moves up to 40,000 in chips.
flop was greeted with an all-in bet from the big blind, a bet that was 9,775 effective due to Rowsome's stack.
, and Rowsome survived!
board, Maxim Lykov's opponent fired a bet of 9,000 into an already substantial pot, but the Russian pro responded with a raise to 25,000.
