The players are taking their seats again, with Nenad Medic currently our chip leader at 160,000. He has accumulated chips slowly but surely, while sitting with big hitters like Tony G, Hoyt Corkins, Allen Cunningham, and Phil Gordon.
Roland de Wolfe has had such a crazy 15 minutes, this reporter has sat down to write these hands up three times, only to be called back by the yelling and general racket coming from de Wolfe's table.
Hand one -- Roland, on a big stack, gets it all in on a K-J-4 flop with K-6-x-x against A-A-x-x. The six comes on the turn, and Roland is healthy.
Hand two -- de Wolfe gets into a 62,000 chip pot holding 4-6-7-10 with two spades, against A-A-9-5 on a flop of . The turn is a spade, which gets de Wolfe there, but the river is a nine, which gives his opponent nines full, and Roland is bleeding.
Hand three -- Gary Jones makes it 2,200 from the button. de Wolfe (small blind), and Donnacha O'Dea (big blind) call. The flop is A-8-6 with two clubs. O'Dea leads at the pot for 6,500, Jones moves in for about 15K total, and de Wolfe calls. O'Dea only has about 3,500 left after his pot-sized lead, and those go in as well.
O'Dea has two pair with A-6-x-x
Jones has flopped a set with 6-6-3-3
de Wolfe is on a jack-high club draw.
The turn is a club, the river a blank, and Roland sends two of the U.K.'s finest on their way. Roland is healthy.
Spotting him making a rare live tournament appearance, PokerNews grabbed Internet cash-game legend Brian 'sbrugby' Townsend on dinner break from today's Pot-Limit Omaha tournament. We talked to Brian about what brought him out to the WSOPE, how his tournament is going thus far, and adjusting from PLO cash games to PLO tournaments.
Four young voluptuous ladies are currently railing the buoyant Tony G, the Lithuanian/Aussie currently on 61,000.
"Are those your wives?" I asked jokingly.
"Sure they are," replied Tony.
"Where are the others?"
"They're still coming."
After a brief pause, I sought clarification, "They're not really your wives are they, Tony?"
"What do you think?" was the response.
"Naaaah, no one would marry you, surely."
At this point I ran away from the table like a rocket-propelled whippet as Mr. G is slightly bigger than yours truly and could probably inflict quite a lot of damage.
Thats a lot of Wonga as we say in this country. Well, we don't, but Dick Van Dyke would probably say it, were he to reprise his role as a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.
Irish Open champion Marty Smyth is the latest player to join the railbirds.
Kenny Tran was the whippersnapper who bust up the trio of consecutive Irishmen, his turned straight dashing the hopes of Smyth who had flopped a set AND a flush draw.