Break Time
Players are on a twenty-minute break.
Players are on a twenty-minute break.
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Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
We've had two quick eliminations since the players came back from break.
First Daniel Fuhs got all in on the turn of a
board against Tai Nguyen. Fuhs showed a set of nines and a straight draw,
. Nguyen, however, had a Broadway straight with
. The board did not pair on the river.
"That's brutal," said Fuhs as he left the table.
Shortly afterwards, Pasqual Rao was all in on a flop of
. Dan Heimiller raised and Michael Chow called the raise. They checked the
turn. One bet went in from each on the
river Chow showed dow
to win both halves of the pot and knock Rao out.
The last remaining PokerStars Team Pro in today's field is Pat Pezzin. With still two full tables to go to the money, Pezzin is sitting behind a stack of 185,000. He recently took down a nice three-way pot by betting the
and the
turn against Sam Farha and Pasqual Rao. Both players called those bets and all three checked the
river. Pezzin's set of queens,
, was the best hand.
Vladimir Schmelev has made quite a splash at this 2010 WSOP, but he's finally been laid to rest in this tournament. He was all in on a flop of
against James Dempsey. Dempsey's
turned Broadway with the
to best Schmelev's flopped king-high straigh,
. Schmelev was eliminated with the
river.
Scotty Nguyen, John Monnette and Jen Harman are also all recent casualties.
We're slowly making our way towards the money bubble. It's looming in one more table of eliminations after the bust-out of Yuval Bronshtein. Bronshtein got all in with
and was called by Sam Farha, who tabled dry aces. Bronshtein flopped a low draw but otherwise didn't connect with the board. His low draw didn't come in and as a result he's out.
Jean-Robert Bellande is stirring things up in the tournament area, but this time it wasn't so much from his play. Marlon Shirley showed up on the rail and was watching Steve Wong play when he challenged Bellande to a 100-meter sprint where he would give Bellande a 30-meter head start. Shirley wanted to bet $50,000 on the race and Bellande was just about ready to take it when he wanted to check with Huck Seed to see if it was a good choice. Wong mentioned that he'd back Shirley up on this.
Bellande didn't seem to know who Shirley is and if you'd like to know, just check out this page. Shirley is a two-time Paralympic 100-meter champion and has been on the U.S. Paralympic Team. Bellande was almost certain that he wanted to accept the bet and after talking to Seed, the two were about to make the bet.
A couple minutes passed while Shirley and Bellande went back and forth discussing possible terms of the race and of the bet. Eventually, Shirley informed them that he was going to head out without a bet actually being placed. Shirley did give Seed his contact information and told Seed to call him or text him because he'll be around.
Shirley left the room without a bet being finalized, but it looks like this could be the making of a good one. If anything further comes up, you can be sure that PokerNews will let you know about it, but until then it's back to Omaha.
Eric Baldwin acknowledged a mistake in a recent hand against Jordan Morgan. Baldwin raised after Morgan bet a flop of
from the small blind. Moran called to the
tur. He check-called another from Baldwin.
On the river , Morgan checked again. Baldwin considered his options before firing out a bet. Morgan quickly called with
, a seven-five for low and aces with a jack kicker for high. That hand quartered Baldwin's
, as Baldwin was out-kicked for the high half of the pot.
"That was a bad bet," said Baldwin after the hand.
Level: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 0