Chris Moorman, who got an early double up with against James Mitchell's (and should probably be thanking Pokernews' own Gloria Balding for buying him an alarm clock so he would arrive on time) opened to 1,600 with Heather Sue Mercer and Hoyt Corkins making the call.
Jennifer Tilly, now sitting in the departed Jeff Lisandro's seat reraised to 6,000 and both Moorman and Mercer folded. Corkins had other ideas, and the made the call to see a flop.
Corkins now checked to Tilly who bet 7,000 which seemed to satisfy Corkins enough that his hand was no good.
We just caught the tail end of the action, but the ESPN cameras were rolling for the duration of this hand, so we'll likely find out the rest of the story later.
When we walked up to the table, there was a board of , and it was heads up between two big stacks. Phil Ivey had checked, and Nicolas Levi made a bet of 7,600, apparently the leading bettor the whole way. Ivey, though, is awfully skilled in the ways of pokering. He stuck in a check-raise to 22,000 straight, and Levi paid it off.
Ivey tabled (just the nuts) and raked in a pot of well over 50,000 chips. That vaults him all the way up to about 145,000 now, slightly overtaking Levi in the process.
Paul Zimbler is feeling better again after taking down a four-way pot with a flop bet minutes after folding to a Mike Matusow river bet.
In the first hand he was heads-up with Matusow and facing an 11,000 river bet with the board reading . Zimbler looked in pain as he came to a decision to fold. Matusow said he held ace-queen with the .
The next hand Zimbler and three others saw a raised pot flop. It was checked to Zimbler on the button and his 2,825 bet was good to take the pot down. He's on 28,000 right now.
A pretty hefty pot had formed by the river of the board when Leo Margets, in the big blind position, bet out 10,100. JC Tran eyed her up for just the briefest of moments before deciding it wasn't worth it and folding.
Margets upped her stack to 130,000 or so. Tran isn't in any trouble either - he's well above average on 90,000.
After finding aces against ace-king-times-two earlier in the day for a triple up, he got his whole stack in again. This time he was in bad shape with against pocket nines. But lo and behold! Two aces dropped on the flop, and he doubled up to 23,000 this time.
Dan O'Brien was just eliminated, he lost the classic 57-43 with to Sean Jazayeri's on a board.
We've also lost Jeff Lisandro who had his cracked by Hoyt Corkins' . On the same table Neil Channing called James Mitchell's 3-bet with and pushed on a board only to snapped off by the chip leader's .
Jennifer Tilly raised the button preflop, and big blind Shawn Buchanan matched the bet to see a flop.
It was , and Buchanan check-called a bet of 2,000. He did the same for 3,500 on the turn, and the on the river saw him check one last time. Tilly fired 5,000 at the pot, and Buchanan eventually made the call.
"Queen-high," Tilly said softly, not wanting to show it down. Buchanan flashed the , and she mucked, and the dealer pushed the pot to Buchanan. Tilly asked to see the winning hand, and the dealer flipped up Buchanan's , his two pair plenty good enough to take it down. He moves up over 50,000, while Tilly slides back under the 100,000-chip mark.
I only caught the end of this hand, but I was so intrigued that I pestered James Keys into submission.
According to the horse's mouth, Keys opened for 1,500, the small blind three-bet to 4,500 and Keys made the call.
The small blind then bet 4,000 and 13,000 on the flop and turn of a board, but conceded with a check on the river.
In position, Keys decided to moved his stack across the line, basically putting his shorter-stacked opponent all in for around 30,000. Despite his suspicions, the small blind released his hand.
After some poking from curious neighbours, Keys revealed for the flopped two pair turned into a bluff, later to emerge as the rarely sighted bluff value bet.
"I didn't have that beat," commented the small blind, later adding that he had . The table didn't seem convinced by the claim.
Jake Cody has had a hell of a year. He was little known in the live scene before he played and won his first ever EPT in Deauville earlier this to make himself very known. If that wasn't enough for the young Brit in 2010 he went on to clinch the inaugural WPT London crown earlier this month to win two thirds of the coveted Triple Crown (EPT, WPT & WSOP/E titles).
Gavin Griffin and Roland de Wolfe are the only two to have achieved this so far but the WSOPE Main Event offered Cody a last chance to achieve the Triple Crown in one year. A fete that surely would've taken years to match, if ever.
Unfortunately for him this dream came to an end for him a short while ago. He was short and pushed all-in with pocket sixes from late position but ran into Hoi Wing Cheung's pocket queens two seats along.
against James Mitchell's 
(and should probably be thanking Pokernews' own Gloria Balding for buying him an alarm clock so he would arrive on time) opened to 1,600 with Heather Sue Mercer and Hoyt Corkins making the call.
flop.
, and it was heads up between two big stacks. Phil Ivey had checked, and Nicolas Levi made a bet of 7,600, apparently the leading bettor the whole way. Ivey, though, is awfully skilled in the ways of pokering. He stuck in a check-raise to 22,000 straight, and Levi paid it off.
(just the nuts) and raked in a pot of well over 50,000 chips. That vaults him all the way up to about 145,000 now, slightly overtaking Levi in the process.
. Zimbler looked in pain as he came to a decision to fold. Matusow said he held ace-queen with the 
raised pot flop. It was checked to Zimbler on the button and his 2,825 bet was good to take the pot down. He's on 28,000 right now.
board when Leo Margets, in the big blind position, bet out 10,100. JC Tran eyed her up for just the briefest of moments before deciding it wasn't worth it and folding.
against pocket nines. But lo and behold! Two aces dropped on the flop, and he doubled up to 23,000 this time.
to Sean Jazayeri's 
board.
board only to snapped off by the chip leader's 
, and Buchanan check-called a bet of 2,000. He did the same for 3,500 on the 
, and she mucked, and the dealer pushed the pot to Buchanan. Tilly asked to see the winning hand, and the dealer flipped up Buchanan's 
