James Manning just too about 750,000 off of Theo Jorgensen when he called a 500,000-chip bet with the on a board of . Jorgensen held the .
Jorgensen dropped to 8.6 million and Manning improved to 1.99 million.
James Manning just too about 750,000 off of Theo Jorgensen when he called a 500,000-chip bet with the on a board of . Jorgensen held the .
Jorgensen dropped to 8.6 million and Manning improved to 1.99 million.
Jakob Toestesen opened the action with a raise to 125,000 from the cutoff position. Redmond Lee called in the small blind, as did William Thorson in the big blind to go three ways to a flop of .
The three players tapped the table and the free card on the turn was the . Again it was checked around and the river delivered the . Lee checked again but this time Thorson took a stab with a bet of 350,000. Toestesen let it go btu Lee made the call.
Thorson tabled for a rivered straight which was good to rake in the pot. He's up to 7.11 million with Lee down to 1.7 million.
Duy Le has had a bad start to his appearance on the feature table.
After opening to 120,000 and then folding to John Racener's 335,000-chip three-bet, Le was at it again opening to 120,000 with Jeff Banghart making the call from the cutoff.
The flop fell down and Le fired out 200,000 only to have Banghart move all in for 535,000 to prompt a fold from Le.
James Fennell fired 190,000 on the flop of . He was called by Matthew Jarvis. The turn brought the and Fennell checked. Jarvis fired out 335,000 and Fennell mucked his hand.
So far it has been a quiet start to the main feature table, but thanks to Jean-Robert Bellande, he spiced things up a little.
With the action on Bellande in early position, he slid his 680,000-chip stack into the pot and forced three folds before John Racener deliberated for around thirty seconds before folding.
The blinds quickly passed and Bellande collected the pot.
"C'mon John . . . I needed a call!" pleaded Bellande as he tabled his .
From the blogging desk it sounded as though Racener had folded to Bellande's all in.
"What! King-Queen! I feel completely robbed!" uttered Bellande as he stacked his chips up to 785,000.
It didn't take long for us to see our first big all-in of the day on the secondary feature table. John Armbrust raised it up to 125,000 from the hijack position before Jakob Toestesen made it 300,000 on the button. Action was back with Armbrust and he moved all in with Toestesen insta-calling for the rest of his chips.
Armbrust:
Toestesen:
The board ran out and the aces of Toestesen hold up for a huge double up. He's up to 4.065 million with Armbrust slipping back to 1.5 million.
Early action here on Day 7. Scott Clements was all in before the flop for just a little over 1 million and was up against Brock Bourne. Clements held , and Bourne .
The board came , and Clements moves up to 2.2 million while Bourne quickly tumbles to nearly nothing -- just 60,000.
Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
The atmosphere has changed inside the Amazon Room.
Gone are the swarming fields of randoms and westward-bound summer vacationers here to take their shots at a quick cash score. What was once a tight squeeze with 121 tables packed into this room is now a nearly-empty chasm of dim lights and empty floor space. Just seven tables are left on the main floor, and the rest of the vacant space will soon be filled by throngs of spectators and media elbowing to catch a glimpse of the action. Fifty-six bracelets have been divvied out over the last seven weeks with WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela greedily taking two for himself. That leaves just one piece of diamond-studded jewelry in the display case, and it's the single most prized possession in poker. The World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet awaits, and the honor of hoisting it will be bestowed on one of our final 78 players. Oh and then there's almost $9 million up for grabs too...
Theo Jorgensen has thus far done his part to secure a seat at November's final table. He's well out in front of the peloton with 9.295 million chips, but it would be a serious blunder for him to relax now. There are still two long days of poker to be played before the summer recess, and only the nine most skilled and luckiest in our remaining field will be around in the fall to play for it all.
There's danger lurking in the waters below Jorgensen, too; Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is in second place and hungry for his second bracelet of 2010 as well. If he can manage that, it might be one of the more impressive feats in poker when combined with his victory in the $50,000 Players' Championship earlier this year. John Racener and William Thorson are both forces to be reckoned with in the top ten as well, and Matt Affleck has a good stack deep in the Main Event for the second consecutive year. He was out on Day 6 last year, though, and he's already improved upon that performance and put himself in a good spot to make Day 8 and beyond.
We're just a few minutes from action, so don't wander off. The race to 27 is here!
Table 368
Seat 1: David Assouline - 1710000
Seat 2: Hasan Habib - 1165000
Seat 3: Matt Affleck - 5315000
Seat 4: Pascal LeFrancois - 1950000
Seat 5: Gabe Costner - 4635000
Seat 6: Cuong Nguyen - 5650000
Seat 7: Johnny Lodden - 2105000
Seat 8: Denis Pisarev - 2140000
Seat 9: Alexander Kostritsyn - 5715000
Table 369 (Secondary feature table)
Seat 1: Jakob Toestesen - 2010000
Seat 2: Gabriel Nassif - 1125000
Seat 3: Redmond Lee - 2220000
Seat 4: William Thorson - 6525000
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: Evan Lamprea - 2910000
Seat 7: Rudy Miller - 2250000
Seat 8: John Armbrust - 3295000
Seat 9: Ronnie Bardah - 1265000
Table 370
Seat 1: Jonathan Driscoll - 6570000
Seat 2: Brock Bourne - 1150000
Seat 3: Joseph Cheong - 5555000
Seat 4: Meenakshi Subramaniam - 2690000
Seat 5: Scott Clements - 1085000
Seat 6: Corey Emery - 2640000
Seat 7: Dag Palovic - 1375000
Seat 8: David Benyamine - 1540000
Seat 9: Jim McCrink - 1600000
Table 371
Seat 1: Niklas Toorell - 1945000
Seat 2: Mads Wissing - 2025000
Seat 3: Matthew Berkey - 5450000
Seat 4: Michael Mizrachi - 7535000
Seat 5: Filippo Candio - 5385000
Seat 6: Patrick Eskandar - 5540000
Seat 7: Michiel Sijpkens - 2160000
Seat 8: Jonathan Duhamel - 4295000
Seat 9: Jared Ingles - 1370000
Table 372
Seat 1: Marcel Cole - 1075000
Seat 2: Adam Etter - 765000
Seat 3: Evgeny Shnayder - 4790000
Seat 4: Michael Skender - 2980000
Seat 5: Michal Wywrot - 3815000
Seat 6: Robert Pisano - 3735000
Seat 7: Nicolas Babel - 1220000
Seat 8: James Fennell - 3225000
Seat 9: Matthew Jarvis - 6125000
Table 373
Seat 1: Gianni Direnzo - 2280000
Seat 2: Gary Dishongh - 800000
Seat 3: Peter Jetten - 675000
Seat 4: Pierre Canali - 655000
Seat 5: John Dolan - 3470000
Seat 6: Jacobo Fernandez - 705000
Seat 7: Matthew Bucaric - 3595000
Seat 8: Edward Ochana - 5950000
Seat 9: Adam Levy - 1685000
Table 374
Seat 1: Bill Melvin - 4515000
Seat 2: Jerry Payne - 2765000
Seat 3: Benjamin Statz - 2910000
Seat 4: Jason Senti - 970000
Seat 5: Bryn Kenney - 3830000
Seat 6: David Baker - 1635000
Seat 7: Christopher Bolt - 1690000
Seat 8: Mark Meloche - 1780000
Seat 9: Josh Brikis - 1610000
Table 375 (Main feature table)
Seat 1: Duy Le - 4100000
Seat 2: Damien Luis - 1850000
Seat 3: John Racener - 7200000
Seat 4: Jeff Banghart - 645000
Seat 5: Tony Dunst - 1550000
Seat 6: Sergey Rybachenko - 1010000
Seat 7: Jean-Robert Bellande - 700000
Seat 8: Matt Harris - 965000
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 376
Seat 1: Habib Khanis - 1065000
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Ismail Erkenov - 1530000
Seat 4: Eduardo Parras - 1220000
Seat 5: Brandon Steven - 2330000
Seat 6: James Manning - 1265000
Seat 7: Eric Baldwin - 2135000
Seat 8: Theo Jorgensen - 9295000
Seat 9: Richard Morgan - 1680000