![[user252447]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
Peter 'The Poet ' Costa has an impressive list of cashes at poker tournaments going back over 20 years with live earnings of $1,892,766.
He has managed to double the stack he had at the start of the day and returns from the break with around 102,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
102,000
60,200
|
60,200 |
Two screens in the tournament area now show some horse racing and quite some of our remaining participants seem to have been betting on exactly that. We can hear a lot of cheers, yells and laughter. Let's see who picks up some extra cash. They even overtake the "player out" yells from the dealers!
It appears that we do have eight ladies left in this Seniors Championship and another one just lost her final all in showdown, ironically with 
against 
. The biggest stacks of those remaining belongs to Marcia Topp.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
The following players finished between 188th and 154th place, taking home a $2,986 payout for running deep in the Seniors Championship.
Check the payouts tab to take a look at exactly where each player wound up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
The Seniors Championship may have a reputation, and deservedly so, for being friendly and good natured, but the players are in the money now and there is a serious payday awaiting the eventual winner, so there are a few sticklers for rules making sure everything is above board.
A player announced raise and then appeared to put out chips in two motions. The player in the big blind asked if that wasn’t a string bet and the floor was called. It was indeed ruled a string bet and a min-raise was declared the legal bet. The player in the big blind was demonstrating how the other player had put out his chips and another player piped up, “Isn’t that a call?”
The player quickly pulled back the calling chips and the dealer let it slide and no more was said. The big blind finally looked at his cards and folded to be greeted by some eye rolling from a couple of players.
Tanya Gawarecki just flat called a raise with pocket kings and another player behind called as well to see a three-way flop 
. The opponent bet and Gawarecki moved all in, a reluctant call with pocket nines followed and both further community cards bricked.
Marcia Topp doubled up as well. In a battle of the blinds, she three-bet shoved for 122,000 chips with 
and got called by pocket fours. The 
board saw her on the rise and the now crippld opponent busted two hands later. "Ace queen has been good to me, except for the one time earlier today," Topp said before stacking up the chips with a smile on the face.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
250,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
165,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Milton Jaffee's son Jared is a well-known pro who has shined on several of poker's most prestigious stages, as his $1,655,465 in reported live earnings can attest.
For the last two days though, Jared was reduced to the role of railbird, sweating his father's action as Milton went deep in the Seniors Championship.
Jared was on hand throughout the day to offer support and talk his father through rundowns of recent hands, and while Milton's run recently ended with a 181st place finish for a $2,986 score, it was clear that skill on the felt runs strong in the Jaffee family.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Simon “Aces” Trumper was getting short and open shoved from the button into the big blind, who he described as the tightest player on the table. The player in the big blind duly called with 
and Trumper had been caught making a move with 
.
There was to be no salvation on the final board of 
.
This was Trumper’s first event of the series and his first cash. He confirmed to PokerNews that he plans to play 10 events so we doubt that’s the last we’ll see of him,
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Peter Alson has been grinding a 20 big blind stack almost the entire day and is still hanging in, now with slightly more than his usual comfort zone. We did notice Tanya Gawarecki call two all ins with 
to face 
as well as 
. The board ran out 
and one of the short stacks hit the rail whereas the other pretty much tripled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
70,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
Barny Boatman in the small blind called a shove and put his tournament life on the line.
The good news for him was that he held 
against the .
Better news came on the flop of 
but the turn delivered the dagger blow 
and the river fell the .
Boatman was out with $3,504 in his pocket.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
||
