Martins Adeniya is here in today's Day 2 field, but just before play, he talked to Kristy Arnett about a hand he played on Day 1a wherein he decided to fold top-two pair in a monster pot.
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Action folded to Tony Dunst in the cutoff seat, and he opened with a raise to 1,025. Luke Graham called on the button, and the flop came down . Dunst led with a bet of 1,500, and Graham folded.
We walked up to the table to see Amanda Baker and Nicholas Muraca in a heads up pot on the river, with the board reading . There was about 12,000 in the pot, and Muraca checked to Baker, who fired out 6,500. Muraca spent quite some time in the tank, at least two minutes, before the clock was called. The table started complaining that this was the second or third time the clock had to be called on Muraca, who waited until the eight second mark of the countdown to toss in the call.
Baker showed for a flush on the turn, and Muraca kicked it in, before getting in a low key argument with the player who called the clock on him. The floor came over to break it up, but it appeared that tensions were still high after he left, as the two continued to mumble at each other afterwards. Regardless, Baker took down the nice pot, and is now sitting on over 60,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Amanda Baker |
62,000
6,150
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6,150 |
From under the gun Larry Wright made it 1,250 with Brian Rast and the big blind calling.
The dealer dropped a flop and Wright continued for 1,650 with only Rast calling as the landed on the turn.
Wright checked and Rast pushed out a 4,600-chip bet to put Wright in the tank for close to three minutes before saying, "good hand, nice bluff" as he folded.
With Wright slipping to below 100,000, Rast climbs to roughly 37,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Larry Wright |
97,000
-15,900
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-15,900 |
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Brian Rast |
37,000
6,075
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6,075 |
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A three-way preflop situation here during the first hour of Level 6 saw players betting back and forth until Steven Wolansky and another opponent had each committed around 17,000 with the third player stepping aside. Wolansky had and his opponent .
The produced an audible reaction from the table thanks to the possibilities it afforded Wolansky, but after the turn and river he'd lost the hand and quickly got up and departed the Amazon Room.
However, the counting down of chips afterwards revealed that Wolansky actually had his opponent outchipped by 425. Someone was sent after Wolansky, and he returned to his seat saying he'd thought his opponent had him covered.
On the first hand back Wolansky open-raised all in from the cutoff and both blinds called. The other two checked down the board, and when Wolansky tabled it was the best hand and he'd triped his tiny stack.
Not long after that Wolansky doubled up, and is now back over 3,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Steven Wolansky |
3,200
-13,800
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-13,800 |
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After a series of preflop bets, Trinidad and Tobago's Ramlal Basdeo was all in with . Unfortunately for the Trinidadian, he was at risk against Randy Pfeifer, who held , but the flop fell , giving him a set of eights.
Not to worry friends of Pfeifer, the turn was the , giving him a set of aces, and the bricked off on the river. Basdeo hit the rail, while Pfeifer now has 59,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Randy Pfeifer |
59,000
25,350
|
25,350 |
Ramlal Basdeo | Busted |
Faraz Jaka entered the pot with a raise to 1,200 and was called by Vincent Tognaci from two seats over.
Jaka continued for 1,700 on the flop with Tognaci calling as the landed on the turn. Jaka tossed in 3,600 only to have Tognaci bump it up to 8,000.
Jaka eyed Tognaci's stack but then folded his hand while slipping to just under 22,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Faraz Jaka |
21,800
-7,200
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-7,200 |
|
The flop was just dealt and the player in the small blind checked to Dominik Nitsche who bet 1,000. The small blind raised to 2,500 and Nitsche called.
The player led for 3,000 on the turn and Nitsche called. The came on the river and again the small blind led for 3,000. Nitsche stared at his opponent trying to get that "soul read" but the player sat stoically and still for a solid 90 seconds. He then he broke his stance and he glanced over at Nitsche, who must have picked up on something because he folded shortly after.
Gerardo Godinez was all in and at risk holding on a flop of . He was up against the of Adam Weinraub, and Weinraub's hand held up as the turn and river bricked , respectively.
Weinraub chipped up to 82,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Adam Weinraub |
82,000
22,075
|
22,075 |
Gerardo Godinez | Busted |
We found Roberto Musu, Hernan Crespin and Chris Hunichen in a three-way preflop all in.
Musu:
Crespin:
Hunichen:
The board ran out , leaving Musu tripling up with top two and Hunichen busting Crespin in the side pot, as they both had Musu covered.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Roberto Musu |
26,000
8,200
|
8,200 |
Hernan Crespin | Busted |