The tournament director has announced the prize pool and payouts for Event #29. The total amount of entries has reached 1,165, creating a prize pool of $2,650,375. The champion will not only take home a World Series of Poker gold bracelet but, $536,768 to go along with it. There will be 117 places paid and a min-cash is worth $5,035.
Victor Ramdin first lost a massive pot with pocket kings against to remain crippled in chips. He was all in shortly after and got called by Tristan Wade and another opponent. The latter bet the flop for 1,000 and Wade called, both checked the turn. On the river, Wade made it 3,500 to go and the opponent mucked.
Ramdin:
Wade:
That's it for Ramdin and he left the tournament area quickly.
Table Silver 20 is crammed full of stars and should produce some interesting hands until it finally breaks. It is currently the home to Kevin MacPhee, Paul Volpe, Amanda Musumeci, John O'Shea and Brent Hanks among others, all of whom are regarded as being top poker talent.
Jeremy Menard was sitting pretty as the dinner break approached thanks to his 25,000 stack. Then he lost a massive pot with pocket kings to leave him nursing a 5,500 stack going into the 200/400/50 level.
The self proclaimed queen of "chip porn selfies", Sam Cohen, has doubled the stack from the last count we got on her. After returning from dinner break she won some pots and then had a short stack three-bet-shove the small blind for 5,000 with pocket nines. Cohen had raised the button to 1,000 and called with jacks, the board ran out in her favor.
Sean Jazayeri bet 1,100 on the flop and was called by his opponent before both checked the turn. On the river, now Jazayeri checked and quickly called the 4,000 of the opponent only to muck when shown .