The players are now on a 75-minute dinner break. Play will resume at around 18:05 P.M. with blinds 200/400 and a 50 ante.
The players are now on a 75-minute dinner break. Play will resume at around 18:05 P.M. with blinds 200/400 and a 50 ante.
Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Tom Marchese and Mohsin Charania were seated at the same table after the dinner break. Charania opened with a raise to 1,000 and Marchese pushed all-in in his first hand of the tournament. In the five-seat was another player who pushed all-in and Charania folded his hand.
Tom Marchese: ![]()
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Seat Five: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Marchese doubles in his first hand.
On the table next to Marchese and Charania arrived Mike Del Vecchio with a fresh 7,500 and a chance to win a million dollars.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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16,000
16,000
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16,000 |
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7,500
7,500
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7,500 |
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6,500
6,500
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6,500 |
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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41,000
41,000
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41,000 |
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37,000
37,000
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37,000 |
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34,000
13,000
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13,000 |
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30,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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24,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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21,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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20,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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16,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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15,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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11,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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9,500
4,500
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4,500 |
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9,000
9,000
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9,000 |
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7,000
7,000
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7,000 |
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5,000
2,500
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2,500 |
Alex Keating just won a small pot. The man with one of the longest beards in the field raised to 800 from the under the gun position and it folded around to the player in the big blind. The player called while saying that he didn't look at his cards.
The flop was ![]()
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and the player in the big blind folded to a bet of 1,100 from Keating.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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17,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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A player opened to 1,200 and the cut off raised it to 3,500. Kyle Julius in small blind decided to push all in and only the cut off made the call.
Kyle Julius: ![]()
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His opponent: ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Julius lost the flip.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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The big migration has started from the Pavillion room to the Brasilia room. The Brasilia room is filling up with more and more familiar faces.
Maria Ho is one of the players who is now seated in the Brasilia room next to a gentleman with a chef hat on his head. She just played a pot, but couldn't manage to win.
When the board read ![]()
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she check-called a bet of 900, before check-folding on the
turn, when her opponent bet 3,525.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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31,000
6,000
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6,000 |
Julien Martini on the button opened and the player in big blind raised it to 3,700, before Martini reraised to 7,200.
After some thought, his opponent shoved over top and Martini quickly folded.
The recent winner of the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (Event #4) still has a comfortable stack of 22,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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22,000
22,000
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22,000 |
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Joe Cada was involved in a hand where he got rivered for a significant pot. As the board read ![]()
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, Cada was facing an all-in of around 8,000, with the pot being around 12,000 already.
Joe Cada was visibly struggling with his decision on the turn, but ended up making the correct call with ![]()
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of his opponent.
Unfortunately for Cada, the river was the
en the 2009 Main Event champion is left with under 15 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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5,700 | |
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