Following a flop, a player in middle position bet 2,600, and Vanessa Rousso called from the button. The turn was the , and this time Rousso's opponent checked. Rousso took the invitation to bet 4,800, and her opponent called.
The river brought the . Rousso's opponent checked, and after pausing a good while Rousso checked as well.
"Ace is good," said Rousso before seeing her opponent's for kings. Those were good, too, as she explained she had had a straight flush draw.
Rousso was up over 50,000 earlier, but has slipped to about 35,000 now.
The WSOP floor staff on duty have been a big talking point throughout the Rio poker room during this evening’s session of play, but the topic is not about the rules, it’s all about the white threads they’re rocking in a new tradition they’ve dubbed, “White Suit Sunday”.
Lead Tournament Supervisor Steve Frezer, who’s been working here at the WSOP for six years, was happy to share with us the story of how the idea came about.
“Actually, it started last week,” Frezer said. “We did it just for kicks. One of our other guys came in wearing one and we thought that was cool, so we all went out to the outlet stores and bought one each. From now on, in every Day 1d of the Main Event, we’re gonna be wearing white suits.”
Not all the supervisors were convinced to begin with: “We had one guy (Troy Stomer) thinking he was going to be the only one that’d turn up in a white suit, but as you can see, we’re all running around here in the same outfit – except for Robbie Thompson, he chickened out!”
Even 2005 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem was so impressed that he told Frezer that he was going to wear a white suit in the Main Event next year. We reckon that players like Tony ‘bond18’ Dunst would be a lock for White Suit Sunday (as his penchant for suits is well-known), but Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier has already gotten into the spirit of the occasion tonight with his get-up whilst playing in the Mothership.
By our judgement, we reckon that white’s all right! Looking sharp, lads!
Matt Matros just called an opponent's all-in bet of about 25,000 with the . His opponent held the . The board ran out and Matros won the hand. He's now got about 70,000 in chips.
We don't know how we managed to miss her, but Amanda Musumeci was recently spotted in the field. Not only that, she is sitting with a pretty big stack . . . 130,000! Needless to say, we'll be keeping an eye on her from here on out.
Todd Brunson recently was moved over to the white section where he wasted no time getting involved in a pot. Brunson from late position bet out 1,100 and received a call from the player on the button preflop. With a flop being spread out both players opted to check.
The brought a repeat of action as again both players knuckled.
A river almost had us leaving to find a more interesting hand when all of a sudden instead of checking Brunson bet out 3,100 and received a call fairly quickly. Brunson tabled for a set of fours and his opponent simply deposited his cards in the muck and Brunson was awarded the pot.
We found this hand developing on the turn with John Dolan, in the small blind, betting out 2,425. The board read and Dolan's opponent called. The river came and Dolan fired out 6,025. His opponent tanked for a short while before calling.
Dolan half smiled and turned over and his opponent revealed and took the pot. Dolan was left with only 6,525.
Douglas Smith and Shawn Cunix have been sharing space for quite a while now, each holding at least 100,000 each, but Cunix is now well out in front after sitting back to watch Smith lose a few in this hand on table 276.
The action folded around to the player in middle position who limped in before the flop; the small blind called and Smith checked in the big blind before all three players checked down the flop of .
The small blind and Smith then checked to the middle position player after the dealer produced the on the turn, only to both fold after he led out for 1,600.
Smith's no longer in the 100K club, down to less than 84,000. However, all of Cunix's followers will be pleased to know that he's on more than 137,000 in chips!
Greg Mueller was down to just 7,400 lonely chips, and he got them all in before the flop in pretty bad shape. Mueller's ran smack into an opponent's , putting "FBT" five cards from the door.
Not so fast, my friend! The board ran out , and Mueller was spelled from elimination on the final card. "Oh baby!" he celebrated. "The kid gets lucky!"
Lucky it was, and that lucky double moves Mueller back into contention with about half his starting stack -- 15,000 or so.
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flop, a player in middle position bet 2,600, and Vanessa Rousso called from the button. The turn was the 
, and this time Rousso's opponent checked. Rousso took the invitation to bet 4,800, and her opponent called.
. Rousso's opponent checked, and after pausing a good while Rousso checked as well.
for kings. Those were good, too, as she explained she had had a straight flush draw.
. His opponent held the 
. The board ran out 
and Matros won the hand. He's now got about 70,000 in chips.
brought a repeat of action as again both players knuckled.
river almost had us leaving to find a more interesting hand when all of a sudden instead of checking Brunson bet out 3,100 and received a call fairly quickly. Brunson tabled 
and Dolan's opponent called. The river came 
and Dolan fired out 6,025. His opponent tanked for a short while before calling.
.
ran smack into an opponent's 
, putting "FBT" five cards from the door.
, and Mueller was spelled from elimination on the final card. "Oh baby!" he celebrated. "The kid gets lucky!"