Bracelet winner Jason Duval has four ladies at his table and one of them gave Duval some trouble just now. Duval called a raise to 75 from the cut off and his neighbor, the lady on the button, called as well. On it was checked to Duval and he bet out 125. Just the player on the button made the call. The turn brought the to the felt and Duval continued with a bet of 350. Instantly his opponent made it 700. Duval glanced at his neighbor, and then folded without much trouble.
The player in the cut off made it 125 to go and Masaaki Kagawa three bet from the button to 375. Both blinds folded and the cut off made the call. The cut off check called a 525 continuation bet from Kagawa on and checked again to his Japanese opponent on the -turn. Kagawa bet 1,500 and called instantly as his opponent put him all in. Both had the same hand though; Kagawa tabled while his neighbor showed . The on the river was of no importance. No rebuy for Kagawa as he got all his chips back, plus some from the blinds.
In the mean time Brendon Rubie walked by with a fresh stack of 4,000 chips. "All for charity" he laughed.
With the reentry format of this tourney allowing runners a second lease on life if their starting stacks are stolen, several players have already stood to make their way to the registration desk.
You can count Amanda Musumeci among those to have fallen, only to get back on the proverbial horse, and she took to Twitter to inform her followers about her progress.
With Twitter fast becoming the preferred venue for professional players to update their progress, here are some choice tweets from those playing in today's Little One for One Drop.
On a recent scouting party sent to search the Brasilia Room for chip leaders, we came across the lovely Liv Boeree trying her best to stack a truly enormous pile of chips.
"Just a million," one of her tablemates announced. "Put her at a million even."
Although Boeree is a tad shy of that mark, her stack of 70,500 puts her in the chip lead by a wide margin as Day 1A comes to a close.
According to an extremely helpful player at the table who regaled us with the exact action on the hand, Boeree opened for 900 from early position, a player in the big blind three-bet to 1,800, and the small blind flatted. With the action back on her, Boeree made it 5,000 to play, the small blind called the reraise, and the big blind then shipped his stack into the middle.
Boeree made the quick call, as did the small blind player, and the three were all in for a massive pot.
Showdown:
Boeree:
Small Blind:
Big Blind:
In the mother of all coolers, each of the three players woke up with a premium pocket pair, but Boeree's aces put her in command of the hand, when the flop came ace-high, her unfortunate opponents were showered in short order.