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2013 World Series of Poker
Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day: 2ab
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We arrived at the table on the turn to see Chamath Palihapitiya bet all in for his last 21,150. The board read 
. His lone opponent looked at cards and said, half-jokingly, "I need help." A player not in the hand offered to call the clock to motivate him to make his decision faster, and he agreed.
The dealer called the for a floorperson, who arrived and announced that the player had 1 minute and 10 seconds to make his decision. The floorman then walked away, although the dealer apparently assumed he would stay there and time the decision. The miscommunication sparked confusion at the table, and no one seemed to know how much time was left.
Steve Gee, who made the final table of the Main Event last year, was at the table but not in the hand, and he offered to help. Gee pulled out his iPad and opened the stopwatch, and announced to the table, "This is the official clock now." Gee's iPad read about four seconds at that point, even though almost a minute had passed since the floorman announced the clock. A few of the players were happy to use Gee's iPad, but the dealer felt otherwise. After about another 30 seconds, the dealer called the floorman back to the table, and he immediately started counting down the final ten seconds. When the countdown finished, Palihapitiya's opponent folded 
face up, deciding his two pair was no good.
Randy Pfeifer checked to Kristen Bicknell on a flop of 
, and the 2013 Ladies Event champion tossed out 2,500. Pfeifer called.
The turn was the 
, Pfeifer check-called another 7,000, and the 
completed the board. Both players knuckled.
Pfeifer tabled 
for a pair of aces, and Bicknell mucked her hand.
As our section is clearing out with tables moving into purple, here are a few counts from some of the notables still in the orange section.
Andrew Moreno, who is the better half of our very own Kristy Arnett, made Day 5 of this event last year, but he won't be repeating that success, as he was just eliminated. Moreno had it up to nearly 50,000 earlier in the level, but lost almost all of it when his 
lost to the 
of his opponent after a flop of 
with two hearts.
That knocked him down to just 4,900, and a few hands later, those chips got in the middle. Facing an early position raise to 1,200, Moreno shoved all in for his last 4,700. It folded around to Matthew Reed in the big blind, and he thought it over for a bit before announcing raise, and betting out 10,000. The original raiser folded, and the cards went on their backs.
Reed: 
Moreno:
Moreno was hoping for an ace or hearts to come, but he never had a sweat, as the board ran down 
.
When we got to Johnny Lodden's table action had folded to the player in the cutoff who raised to 1,400. The player in the small blind opted to reraise to 3,500 after the button folded. Next to act, Johnny Lodden popped it up to 7,500 from the big blind. The player in the cutoff folded, but the small blind called.
The flop came down 
and the small blind checked to Lodden who put out a bet of 5,350. With the action back on the small blind, he thought for about 30 seconds before tossing in a reraise to 12,600. Lodden had the action again and he tanked for about a minute before moving all in for just about 26,000 After thinking about it briefly, the small blind folded allowing Lodden to take down the big pot.
Jesse Yaginuma opened to 1,300 and Chad Holloway three-bet to 3,000 before Yaginuma moved all in once it folded back to him. Holloway made the call for roughly his remaining 15,000 and was at risk.
Holloway:
Yaginuma: 
Unfortunately for PokerNews' own and Event 1: $500 Casino Employees Champion Holloway, the board ran out a bunch of bricks and he was forced to hit the rail as Yaginuma climbed to 89,000 in chips.
Matt Glantz opened with a raise to 1,300 from the cutoff seat, then Kevin O'Leary pushed all in for his last 6,000 or so from a seat over. Both blinds got out, and after getting an idea how many chips were required to do so Glantz called.
"I've looked at one," said O'Leary as he tabled his 
. Glantz meanwhile had 
, and when the flop brought a five — coming 
— O'Leary was suddenly in dire straits. The turn was the 
, making the river 
no matter and sending O'Leary railward.
