Toni Judet just had his Main Event run in a most painful manner. Having gotten the last of his stack of about 30,000 in the middle before the flop with against an opponent's , the odds were favorable for the Romanian to improve his status before the dinner break arrives at the end of Level 8.
The flop and turn appeared further to secure Judet's survival, with him even having the club in his hand to rule out any hope-dashing four-flush.
But the dealer burned a card and delivered the river… the ! A set for Judet's opponent, and a quick exit for Judet, who soon delivered the Cliffs to his Twitter followers:
A player raised from early position to 1,700 and Jake Balsiger reraised to 4,500 from the button. The other player checked to Balsinger on the flop. The spades didn't scare Balsiger though, as he bet 3,300. His opponent called the bet and the turn was dealt. Both players checked and then came the river. The other player checked and Balsiger bet 84,000. His opponent called. Balsiger tabled without hesitation the while his opponent took the pot with .
The very next hand, action folded to Balsiger in the cutoff and he raised to 2,000. The player on the button made it 57,500 to go and after the blinds folded, Balsiger folded as well.
At the start of the previous hand, Balsinger was up to near 50,000 and he has lost some the last few hand.s
Sam Panzica walked past us en route to the rail moments ago, and when we arrived at this former table, we saw the aftermath of a massive hand. Russian Iman Demidov had sitting in front of him, Cyrill Gustavsson had , and the board read .
All of the money went in preflop, Demidov flopped a massive free roll but the turn and river were both blanks. Panzica hit the rail, while Demidov and Gustavsson split his stack, the blinds, and the antes.
There wont be a second deep run for Gaelle Baumann here in the Main Event.
Baumann was sitting on a relatively short stack for most of the day and just recently she lost it all. According to another reporter, Baumann moved all in holding and she was called by another players . The board bricked out for Baumann and that put an end to her 2013 World Series of Poker where she only cashed once in Event #44: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em for $7,287
Ravi Raghavan raised to 1,700 from middle position, and a player in the cutoff bumped it to 4,000. Raghavan called.
The flop came , and Raghavan check-called 3,500. Both players checked through the turn, and Raghavan blasted 20,000 on the river. His opponent folded, and Raghavan has compiled a very respectable stack.
There are only three tables left in the white section of the Pavilion room, but they hold three of our biggest stacks, including Raj Vohra, who has continued to dominate his table and has retaken the chip lead.