An early position raiser made it 2,400 and Scott Seiver reraised to 7,100. The big blind called and the original raiser got out of the way. The flop came down and the big blind checked.
Seiver bet 10,000 only to have the big blind raise all in. Seiver made the call and the two turned over their cards:
Seiver:
Big Blind:
Seiver was in big trouble and the was no help on the turn. He needed a queen to take down the pot but the river was the . Seiver, who was left with only 3,000, was eliminated a few hands later.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko has an innate ability to turn himself into an imposing figure at the table, despite his years. When a hand is unraveling, Timoshenko is statuesque, his arms outstretched onto the felt as he stares his opponent down. When it's his go, he won't rush, he'll remain stoic until he's fully thought the hand through and come to the best possible conclusion.
His meticulous approach appears to have reaped its awards, however, as within a short space of time he has taken both the virtual and live felts by storm with APT and WPT titles, not to mention a win in last year's PokerStars.com WCOOP Main Event. Today, he's looking to add a WSOP bracelet to that list of accolades.
He won't be achieving that goal today, but he can at least move one step closer. With 230,000 in chips, Timoshenko is in splendid shape, although I did just see him give up a pot. With the board reading , his opponent led for 7,000. Timoshenko paused for a minute, mulled over his options then relinquished his hand. The Ukranian come American may not have won that pot, but rest assured he'll be taking his fair share as the day develops.
There was about 80,000 in the pot already when we caught the final betting actions on a board of . Nathan Lindsay checked from the small blind, and Steve Sung fired a bet of 54,000 at the pot, about half his remaining stack. Lindsay made the call for all of his own chips, turning up . It was good; Sung's cards hit the muck, and his stack has taken a hit down to 51,000.
Jim Bechtel, who won the Main Event back in 1993, was all in preflop with against the of Carter Phillips. The board ran out , giving Phillips the straight and the win. He is now up to around 400,000 while Bechtel was eliminated from the tournament.
Up on the orange section feature table, Robert Lang got his last in with - and was woefully behind the in the hands of Vanessa Rousso.
Rousso looked cheerful indeed as the hands were turned over, but her smile faded somewhat as a third queen dropped on the flop to ship Lang the fortunate double up.
Lang doubled to around 80,000. Rousso dropped to around 40,000.
We caught the action on the flop as Jason Cole was leading out with a bet of 5,000. The board showed , and Johnny Chan thought that was worth a raise to 12,000 straight. Cole moved all in for 28,400 with , and Chan made the call, his well out in front and poised for the knockout.
The turn and river did nothing to help Cole's plight, and he's going to have the rest of the day off. Chan is now back in front of the field with 390,000 chips.
and the big blind checked.
was no help on the turn. He needed a queen to take down the pot but the river was the 
. Seiver, who was left with only 3,000, was eliminated a few hands later.![[user4144]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
, his opponent led for 7,000. Timoshenko paused for a minute, mulled over his options then relinquished his hand. The Ukranian come American may not have won that pot, but rest assured he'll be taking his fair share as the day develops.
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to see Keller eliminated and forced to make the dreaded walk out of the Rio for the last time in 2010.
. Nathan Lindsay checked from the small blind, and Steve Sung fired a bet of 54,000 at the pot, about half his remaining stack. Lindsay made the call for all of his own chips, turning up 
. It was good; Sung's cards hit the muck, and his stack has taken a hit down to 51,000.
in the hands of Vanessa Rousso.
, and Chan made the call, his 
well out in front and poised for the knockout.
, and Sarkeshik survived. Young still has a healthy stack of 200,000 chips after that one.