Assorted counts from the Pavilion Yellow section can be found below.
Assorted counts from the Pavilion Yellow section can be found below.
Aladin Reskallah is on the up despite losing a recent pot. Reskallah had defended his big blind with ![]()
in the big blind in a multi-way pot and called an 8,000 bet on the ![]()
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flop with overs and a flush draw. There was no more betting on either the
turn or the
river and his opponent won the hand with ![]()
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Anatolii Zyrin has hit the rail after getting it all in with the best hand in the first hand of the level. Zyrin had opened 4,000 on the cutoff and Steve Cho three-bet to 13,200 on the button. The blinds folded and with the action back on Zyrin, the Russian upped it again, four-betting to 25,000. Cho asked Zyrin how much he was playing behind and he confirmed he had another 38,000. Cho put the rest of it in and Zyrin made the call.
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The first card out was an ace on the ![]()
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flop. With only the case king out there, Zyrin was drawing extremely thin and he found no help on the
turn or the
river. As Zyrin headed towards the door, Cho told PokerNews "the fish gets there".
Level: 10
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
Daniel Negreanu has been spotted in line to join the event. The six-time bracelet winner is the latest big name to take a seat and get in on the action in the inaugural event.
After the stack of Hideki Izutsu had been halved soon after sitting down, the Japanese moved back up to starting stack and just took a hit again when he put a shorter stack at risk with ![]()
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and Izutsu was sent back to the drawing board.
On a multi-way flop of ![]()
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, Prasad Dobbins ended up all in with the ![]()
for top pair and top kicker, however, Raymond Brady had him dominated with the ![]()
for two pair. The
turn gave Dobbins some counter fit outs, but the
river further improved Brady to a full house.
There is no waiting line in the Amazon room and the first tables in the Orange section are starting to break. Assorted stack sizes from the players in the room can be found below.
Barny Boatman has just chipped up to well over 100 big blinds after eliminating an opponent. The hand began with a cutoff open to 2,600 and Boatman three-bet to 8,600 in the small blind, which his opponent called.
The flop was the ![]()
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and Boatman continued small for 5,000. His opponent swiftly moved all in for almost 50,000 and it was an instant call from Boatman.
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With an open-ended straight draw out, Boatman was looking to fade an ace or a nine. The
turn and
river were safe cards and the two-time bracelet winner collected a very nice pot.