Most players seem to have that glazed "I'm so full I could nap for the rest of the day," look on their faces, but not Perry Friedman. He's returned with a spring in his step and was last seen pushing all in for 12,125 on a flop. After a brief dwell, his opponent made the fold, and Friedman began reconstructing a now 20,000 plus stack.
2010 World Series of Poker
Joe Sebok is no more. He had the last of his chips in with pocket fives, but lost a race to an opponent's .
Oh, by the by... it seems we officially have 1,489 unofficial runners today. We're still waiting for the paperwork to be quintuple checked, though.
What's left of them are back here inside the Amazon Room after a little evening dining. They've managed to survive three levels of peril, two-thirds of the way to making Day 2 of the Main Event. We're scheduled for another level and a half of poker here tonight with the chip bags coming out midway through Level 5 once again.
The players have taken their seats... there must have been a long line at Buzio's. There are a fair number of empty chairs still, but it won't remain that way for long. The cards are back in the air, and we're back in business, baby.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
The remaining players are on a 90-minute dinner break. Play will resume just prior to 8:30 p.m.
Robert Miller has already managed to accumulate 152,000 chips, and that's going to give him the top spot heading off for the break. Kido Pham has two-outed his way up towards the top of the counts as well, and he's joined up there by Jim Collopy, Todd Witteles and Phil Galfond.
Dinner break is always a little more pleasant when you have piles of chips.
We'll be back for Level 4 once everyone's had their supper.
Shortly after Andrew Jeffreys let us know about his doubled up to 38,000, he was heard yelling at his table. From across the room we could see his hands up the air and him cheering loudly. We tried to make it to his table, but couldn't in time. All we did see was Jeffreys shaking hands with some of the players at the table and waving goodbye to the cameras as he had nothing but felt left in front of him.
A short-stacked player was all in before the flop with , and Joe Sebok (who was also fairly short on chips) looked him up with the overcards, .
Sebok had a chance at the knockout, but the board of held his opponent's pair and earned him the double up. It came at quite a cost to Sebok who is now down to just 3,350.
Comeback time for Seebs!
A player opened the pot with a raise to 800 and another player called before action got to Jared Pacifici. He called as well and it was three ways to the flop. The flop came down and the original raiser fired 2,000. The next player folded, but Pacifici made the call. The turn brought the and action checked to Pacifici. He fired 2,400 and won the pot.
Upon seeing our reporter writing down the hand Pacifici joked, "That's too boring, don't do it!"
Pacifici did let us know about a bigger hand he played and here's how he described the action to us.
A player raised to 800 from the hijack seat and the cutoff called. The small blind called and then Pacifici reraised from the big blind to 3,300 with the . The original raiser and the small blind both called. After the flop came down , the small blind and Pacifici checked. The next player, who was the one to start all of the raising preflop, fired 6,100. The small blind folded and then Pacifici raised all in for 23,700. His opponent folded and Pacifici picked up the pot.
Pacifici is sitting with around 56,000 in chips right now, a stack that's well above average.
Facing an open from middle position, Perry Friedman three-bet to 2,100 from the big blind, only for the initial raiser to four-bet to 5,200.
Freidman called leading to a flop of where he check-called a continuation bet on the 4,000. He then checked again on the turn, but folded when his opponent moved all in for 35,000.
Freidman back below his starting stack with 24,500.