Event #17: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship Day 2 | 2014 World Series of Poker

06-07-2014 11:31 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Glen Cates	Busted
John Moore	Busted
Kenneth Brower	Busted
Miguel Balderas	Busted
Mark Rubin	Busted
Scott Day	Busted
Ronald Kirsh	Busted
Terry Nother	Busted
Dennis Owen	Busted
Gordon Tessman	Busted
Ken Aldridge	Busted

James Dillon	Busted
Craig Oliver	Busted
Melville Loewen	Busted
Said Elsanafiri	Busted
Alvin Schachner	Busted
Andrew Callahan	Busted
Steven Spate	Busted
John Sandberg	Busted
Joel Marcus	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Constable	100,000 99,999	99,999

Quads On Table 444

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

On the table of Dennis Phillips and Peter Alson, Tanya Gawarecki just hit big time to knock out Philip Ford. She was up with versus and the board ran out to give her quads, the river was kind of a slap in the face for the unlucky Brit though.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tanya Gawarecki	85,000 25,600	25,600
Peter Alson	42,000 15,100	15,100
Philip Ford	Busted

06-07-2014 11:23 UTC-8

Grinding a Short Stack

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Nikolaus Teichert had lost pocket kings versus after a three popped up on the river. He is now reduced to only a couple of big blinds and in full survival mode.

Player	Chips	Progress
Barny Boatman	35,000 4,100	4,100

Dennis Phillips	25,000 8,100	8,100
Mick McCloskey	21,000 5,000	5,000
Nikolaus Teichert	7,000 11,000	11,000

06-07-2014 11:16 UTC-8

The Casualties and Their Cash

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Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

After grinding their way into the money after a grueling day of play in the Seniors Championship, the following players hit the rail during the wave of post-bubble bustouts which punctuates every tournament.

Each of the players on this list earned a min-cash of $1,752 for placing between 468th and 450th, but you can check the payouts tab to see exactly where your favorite senior finished.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicholas Thomas	Busted
Theodore Fitzgerald	Busted
Richard White	Busted
Michael Lawrence	Busted
Edward Walker	Busted
Christopher Corriere	Busted
Harry Bolger	Busted
Randall Katzmark	Busted
Jeffery Bond	Busted
Earl Gallegos	Busted
Richard Liotta	Busted
David Wortham	Busted
Mark Daly	Busted
Mohammad Berenji-Nata	Busted
Michael Souchak	Busted
Jeffrey Hudson	Busted
Robert Geier	Busted
Robert Schulze	Busted
Bret Ohlson	Busted

06-07-2014 11:14 UTC-8

McCloskey On the Rob

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Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Mick McCloskey managed to chip up a little around the bubble time, using his years of experience to take advantage where he can.
Barny Boatman and Simon Trumper are holding steady so far.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mick McCloskey	26,000 26,000	26,000

06-07-2014 11:13 UTC-8

Matacale Folds

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We noticed a large pot going on between Thomas Matacale and Gary La Duca, the latter being one of the bigger stacks throughout Day 1. The board lay until the turn and La Duca moved all in for 28,000. Matacale tanked and even said "sorry guys" to the rest of the table for taking his time of consideration. He eventually folded and La Duca said he had in that spot.

Nonetheless, Matacale has already tripled his starting stack from an hour ago.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Matacale	100,000 69,300	69,300
Gary La Duca	62,000 2,100	2,100

06-07-2014 11:11 UTC-8

Farha Takes a Hit

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Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Sammy Farha faced a raise of 5,000 when he was sat in the big blind. He threw out a call and the two players saw a flop of .

Farha checked and then faced an all-in from the other player of 13,600. Farha shrugged and made the call turning over .

His opponent though had him beat with . The turn was the and the river to see a chunk of Farhas chips slide across the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sammy Farha	75,800 13,600	13,600

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06-07-2014 11:06 UTC-8

Keeping it Close to the Vest

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Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

As long as you have one of these left in play, anything can happen... just ask Richard Vest

With hand-for-hand play entering its third or fourth deal, Richard Vest saw his chances of backsliding into the money slipping away with every 200 ante he was forced to sacrifice.

Down to just a single black T100 chip, things were looking bleak indeed for Vest, a resident of Okeechovee, Florida in town to compete in the World Series of Poker like thousands of other seniors.

Vest has cashed here at the Rio once before, when he finished in 268th place for $1,836 in a $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event back in 2012, but even he couldn't imagine finding away to turn the trick again, not with one-half an ante left to work with.

That final chip was tossed into the pot blind and Vest peered down to peek at , not exactly a monster hand but one which would likely be live against the ace-highs looking to send him home short of the money. After one player raised to isolate the vulnerable Vest, it turned out he wasn't even drawing live, as his ragged hand was up against .

Vest was all but packing his things to make the ignominious walk of bubble shame, but in a flash the dealer and the deck decided his fate, as a appeared right in the window to extend a tenuous lifeline. The pair of deuces dodged tens on the turn and river, and with that Vest managed to drag a pot containing right around 1,000 chips. At the same time, another player ran his multiple draws into two pair and whiffed, leading to the long awaited announcement that the bubble had burst.

After dwindling down to a lone chip, Vest rebounded to receive a payday here in the Seniors Championship, and shortly afterward his managed to flop a flush to score him another pot.

He had the chip, and he still has his chair, so we'll see if Vest can continue the miraculous comeback and build a stack with which to start climbing the payout ladder.

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Vest	2,400 1,300	1,300

Tags: Richard Vest

06-07-2014 11:06 UTC-8

Munro's Magic

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Richard Munro was the chip leader over night and he just keeps running good on Day 2 as well. An opponent tried to bluff with but Munro made the call with for 20,000 and stayed ahead. That and a couple of small pots added to his stack and he should be chip leader once again.