After what was essentially a double break due to the color up, the cards are back in the air. We will be going to dinner in two hours.
2011 World Series of Poker
Day 2B action from the floor in the Pavillion
That was a longer than usual break. Enough time to forget all about what happened before, for some.
Just after the start of Level 8, a player being escorted by Chris, one of the tournament directors, was walked into the middle of the purple section. "Okay players in the purple section," said Chris into a mic over the public address. "We have a player here who can't remember his seat. Does anyone recognize this gentleman? Was he playing with you?"
Laughter echoed around our corner of the Amazon. Getting no response, Chris and the player repeated the sequence over in the Blue section. Again, more laughter, but no help for our lost player. Finally, Chris narrowed things down a bit further.
"Okay, dealers," he said. "Is there a black sweater on an empty seat at your table?"
A hand went up, and applause rang 'round the room as our lost player was at last reunited with his chip stack.
Action folded around to the button, who made it 2,500 to go. Online phenom and bracelet winner Dan "djk123" Kelly reraised it to 7,000 in the small blind. The big blind folded, and the button shoved all in for around 14,000. Kelly made the call, and was in a dominating position.
Kelly:
Opponent:
The flop brought two black cards, but they weren't the ones that Kelly was worried about, coming . The turn paired both, coming the , and the river paired the board, bringing the . Kelly's jack played, and it was good enough to score the knockout, upping his stack to over 150,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Dan Kelly
|
155,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Sam Simon was heads up with an opponent, and the board read . Simon led for 6,500, and his opponent reluctantly called.
"Queens," the player said to Simon.
Simon, looking as though he had been rivered, unhappily mucked his hand. His opponent tried to muck as well, but, per tournament rules, his hand had to be opened. The player showed . Simon shot him a very confused look.
"I'm sorry," the player apologized. "I thought you had queens."
"You said queens," Simon responded. "I thought you had queens."
"I should've just kept my mouth shut," the man apologized again. "I just always fear for the worst. I'll buy everyone a drink when we're done."
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Sam Simon
|
108,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
|
175,000 | |
|
156,000 | |
|
140,000 | |
|
132,000 | |
Phil Laak |
126,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
||
|
118,000 | |
Shawn Keller
|
115,000
-21,000
|
-21,000 |
John Racener
|
108,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
Matt Matros
|
106,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Guillaume Rivet |
100,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
Freddy Deeb
|
98,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
90,000 | |
|
87,000 | |
James Carroll | 85,000 | |
Ricky Fohrenbach
|
85,000
-17,700
|
-17,700 |
Matt Stout
|
81,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Mathieu Clavet | 78,000 | |
Jeffrey Lisandro
|
69,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Shawn Buchanan
|
58,000
37,075
|
37,075 |
|
52,000 | |
Cole Swannack | 47,000 | |
|
40,000 | |
Mike Sexton |
39,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
Scott Clements
|
38,000 | |
|
35,000 |
We caught up with the action on a flop. The player in the big blind checked, prompting a c-bet of 4,100 from his lone opponent - Patrik Antonius. The big blind then check-raised to 12,200. Antonius remained stoic, as he usually does, and quietly announced, "Re-raise." Antonius then put together a bet of 20,300 and slid it into the middle. Antonius' opponent mucked after some deliberation.
Antonius is up to 190,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Patrik Antonius |
190,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Amanda Musumeci
|
170,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Daniel Suied
|
150,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
David Chiu
|
147,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Steve Dannenmann
|
135,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
Dan Kelly
|
135,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Mike Carson |
120,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
||
|
120,000 | |
Joe Serock
|
115,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Dax Mellon
|
110,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
90,000 | |
Donny Mizrachi
|
90,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
David Levi
|
85,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Emil Patel
|
80,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Vanessa Rousso |
70,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
Lars Bonding
|
70,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Tim West
|
65,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
63,000 | |
Chris DeMaci
|
63,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Robert Varkonyi
|
60,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
Richard Lyndaker
|
57,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
Brad Booth
|
52,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Amnon Filippi |
50,000
-40,000
|
-40,000 |
|
||
Noah Boeken | 50,000 | |
Jason Lester |
47,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
||
Darvin Moon |
45,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
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Here are counts from the Blue Section
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ryan D'Angelo
|
287,000 | |
Arnaud Esquevin
|
255,000 | |
Elie Payan | 145,000 | |
|
||
|
144,000 | |
Bryan Colin
|
140,000 | |
Jeffrey Gross
|
127,000 | |
Minh Nguyen
|
118,000 | |
David Williams
|
115,000 | |
Toni Judet
|
112,000 | |
Steven Kelly
|
112,000 | |
Javier Martinez
|
110,000 | |
Anton Ionel
|
107,000 | |
Derek Lerner
|
81,000 | |
Leif Force
|
77,000 | |
Alexandre Gomes | 76,000 | |
Chad Batista
|
71,000 | |
Jorge Arias
|
65,000 | |
Jean-Robert Bellande
|
54,000 | |
Kathy Liebert | 53,000 | |
|
||
Arthur Walker
|
51,000 | |
Pascal Lefrancois | 46,000 | |
|
||
Salvatore Bonavena | 35,000 | |
Berry Johnston
|
28,000 | |
Shawn Cunix | 28,000 | |
Greg Mueller
|
24,500 |