Jimmy Shultz, owner of a WSOP bracelet for winning the $1,500 limit hold'em event in 2008, opened with a raise from the cutoff and got one caller in the small blind. The board came , then , then , with Shultz's opponent check-calling him on all three streets.
Shultz showed for jacks and tens, but his opponent had for the better two pair. Shultz is still sitting with an above-average stack of more than 20,000.
John Hennigan raised from the button and got two callers in the blinds. The flop came , and it checked to Hennigan. "Johnny World" then plucked three gray (100) chips off his stack and tossed out a bet, and both of his opponents folded.
Hennigan turned over his hand — — before scooping the small pot. He sits with about 12,000 at the moment, a little above the average with 198 players left.
Alexander Kuzmin was very low on chips and bet his last few after the turn of an board. Matt Grapenthein looked him up with , but now trailed the of Kuzmin.
However, the river delivered the to give Grapenthein trips to score the elimination.
2001 WSOP Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen has been nursing a short stack for the last hour or so, thus making it difficult for him to build those elaborate chip structures which tend to dazzle the eye.
Just now he found himself all in before the flop against two different opponents following a series of preflop bets, then watched as one bet the other out following a flop.
Mortensen tabled for top pair and his lone remaining opponent , and following the turn and he'd survived to try to rebuild anew.
The numbers are in. With registration closed, a total of 302 players signed up for this one, together creating a prize pool of $687,050. The top 36 finishers will be dividing up the loot, with $182,088 due the winner.
At present it looks like 222 players out of that starting field are still with us.
Michael "The Grinder' Mizrachi is among the late registrants, having taken a seat in the Tan section. Shaun Deeb is now sitting in Tan, too. Annie Duke has arrived as well and is sitting over in the Red section. And Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud winner Andy Bloch is here in search of a second bracelet. Bloch is now sitting at a table over in the Red section with another WSOP bracelet holder, Matt Hawrilenko.
The subject at Bloch's table currently is the WSOP bracelet ceremony, where Bloch is explaining apparently winners can request to have any song played to recognize their achievement — i.e., not just the player's national anthem.
"I thought about doing something different," said Bloch. "But I couldn't think of what would be a good song to choose."
"Something from The Book of Mormon?" said Hawrilenko with a mischievous grin, alluding to the popular musical by the creators of South Park.
"No, no, no... 'Insane in the Membrane'!" said another, raising his flattened palms up in raise-the-roof mode.
"How about the shortest song ever?" asked Bloch. "Or what about a real long Skynyrd song?" suggested a railbird, to which Bloch laughed and nodded.
, then 
, then 
, with Shultz's opponent check-calling him on all three streets.
for jacks and tens, but his opponent had 
for the better two pair. Shultz is still sitting with an above-average stack of more than 20,000.
, and it checked to Hennigan. "Johnny World" then plucked three gray (100) chips off his stack and tossed out a bet, and both of his opponents folded.
— before scooping the small pot. He sits with about 12,000 at the moment, a little above the average with 198 players left.
board. Matt Grapenthein looked him up with 
of Kuzmin.
flop.
turn and 
he'd survived to try to rebuild anew.
