Event #65: $10,000 Main Event Day 1b | 2014 World Series of Poker

07-06-2014 23:25 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe DeGeorge	110,000	12,000
Tim Finne	77,000	14,000
Russell Rosenblum	69,000	-2,000
Alex Queen	60,000	-11,000
Brandon Meyers	58,000	21,000
Iori Yogo	46,000	-800
Mark Radoja	45,000	-30,000
Bryan Huang	43,000	17,400
Jared Hamby	38,000	5,000
Alec Torelli	37,000	-4,000
Gary Benson	37,000	-18,000
David Sklansky	35,500	-6,500
Scott Seiver	33,000	17,900
Mike Watson	31,000	9,000
Vanessa Pacella	31,000
Joseph McKeehen	29,000	800
Garrett Beckman	28,000	-13,000
Craig Thames	27,000
Oleksii Kovalchuk	19,000	-3,000
Pieter de Korver	18,000	-9,500
Minh Ly	14,000	-16,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Volpe	3,000	-2,500

We just caught the action in a hand between J.R. Richards and David Pham. When we arrive on the scene Pham had 2,800 out in front of him on the button while J.R. Richards, three seats on his right, had 1,250 invested.

Richards tanked for a bit before ultimately tossing in 5,000. Pham tanked for over a minute and Richards said, "Just let it go Mr. Dragon!"

Eventually Pham made the call and the the flop brought out . Richards bet 9,250 and Pham folded after about two minutes.

Pham, one of the biggest stars of the game around the poker boom, has $8.8 million in career tournament earrings and two Main Event cashes under his belt. Pham's been around for a very long time, and he has probably seen it all, as his first tournament result dates back to November of 1992.

Player	Chips	Progress
J.R. Richards	63,000	3,525
David Pham	57,000	-5,000

Tags: David Pham J.R. Richards

07-06-2014 23:08 UTC-7

Purple People Eaters

[user101598]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Williams	87,000	9,500
Michele Limongi	78,000	48,000
Triana Iglesias	70,000	-6,000
John Eames	67,000	22,000
Angel Guillen	62,000
Arnaud Mattern	61,000	3,000
Miguel Borrero	60,000	6,000
Tuan Le	57,000	-1,700
Ravi Raghavan	50,000	-1,000
Chris Bell	50,000	2,000
Brian Green	47,000	6,500
Eric Afriat	45,000	-33,000
Kevin Song	42,000	-1,000
Tom Koral	39,000	1,000
Cy Watson	37,000	22,800
Andrey Pateychuk	30,000	-8,000
Matt Woodward	24,000	24,000
Eric Stocz	23,000	-2,500
Ismael Bojang	22,500	5,500
Nick Binger	14,000	-1,800
Christian Harder	13,500	2,500

07-06-2014 23:02 UTC-7

Big Hit to Boeree

Josh_Cahlik

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Just before the break, we caught a hand where Liv Boeree lost a solid portion of her chips. In the hand, a middle position player raised to 1,000 and Boeree came over the top for 2,100 total. Her opponent called and the flop came down . Action checked to the raiser and Boeree fired out a continuation of 2,000. Her opponent called, allowing the to drop down on the turn. Boeree's opponent check again, she bet 3,600, and he tossed out a call.

The finished the board on the river and action checked Boeree's way one last time. She cut out a bet of 11,000 and her opponent called, tabling for ace-high. Boeree flashed before her cards were pulled into the muck.

During the break, she took to twitter regarding the hand.

Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree

Managed to find possibly worst guy in the tourney to 3/b & empty the clip into. Doh. 11k going into 200/400.July 06, 2014

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Boeree now sits right around 11,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liv Boeree	11,000	-21,000

Tags: Liv Boeree

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

07-06-2014 22:31 UTC-7

Final Break of the Day; Matt Affleck Makes a Charge

[user101598]

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

Four years ago, Matt Affleck suffered one of the worst beats you can imagine near the bubble of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table bubble. After an inconsequential flop, Affleck was all in and at risk with pocket aces against the pocket jacks of Jonathan Duhamel, and the eventual champion spiked a jack to take a massive chip lead.

Now, on Day 1b of the 2014 Main Event, Affleck is making a charge. We caught Affleck in one significant pot in Level 4, where he check-raised on the flop and fired two more bullets on the turn and river. His opponent tank-folded after the final community card was dealt and Affleck was pushed the pot.

Also among the leaders at this time are Jeff Norman, Samuel Moore, Trey Luxemburger and Steve Ryan.

Among the players to bust during Level 4 were Eddie Blumenthal, Vivek Rajkumar, Dan O'Brien, Bob "Uncle Krunk" Panitch, Max Silver, Justin Smith, Ami Alibay, Mathew Frankland, Chris Tryba, Timothy Adams, Philipp Gruissem and Nick Cassavetes.

Gruissem was all in and at risk with a very short-stack holding , and was crushed by an opponent's . The aces held up, and the German hit the rail. Cassavetes was also done in with suited gappers - - against a wired pair of eights.

The players will be on recess for 20 minutes before playing the fifth and final level of the evening. In the meanwhile, check out this video:

Tags: Matt Affleck

07-06-2014 22:31 UTC-7

Pollak's Grinding

Happy_Freaked

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

The player under-the-gun raised to 750 and Kyle Keranen from the cutoff after which Kevin Pollak called from the big blind. The flop came down and Pollak check-called 1,150.

On the turn Pollak checked again and the under-the-gun player fired out 2,900, which was enough to take down this pot.

Despite losing this pot Pollak still sits on around 32,000 chips with one level left in the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Pollak	32,000	-2,000

Tags: Kevin Pollak Kyle Keranen

07-06-2014 22:31 UTC-7

Aces For Gruneberg On Last Hand Before Break

Mickey Doft

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

The player under the gun raised to 700, Zach Gruneberg three-bet to 1,700 from the cutoff, his opponent four-bet to 5,700 and Gruneberg five-bet to effectively 48,000-ish. His opponent tanked for about three minutes before calling all in with .