We only arrived at the river of a board where Barny Boatman was faced by a bet of 1,500 chips. He pondered about his decision for a bit and then made the call, turning over and immediately pointing to his ace. He figured his opponent would try to bluff with an open ended straight draw that never arrived and sure enough the villain held .
More and more players get moved into the Brasilia room and among them is also Roland Reparejo. The Employees Event champion is currently sitting at 10,000 chips, he lost some stack but is still well above average.
Today it's Jaffee's turn to sweat the action, as his father Milton is currently competing in the Seniors Championship.
When asked if he had been coaching his dad in preparation for the event, Jaffee could only laugh and respond by saying "I don't want to take any responsibility for what goes on out there."
Perhaps the younger Jaffee should admit to a bit of assistance though, as Milton has survived through nearly six full levels of play while building a stack that sits right around the average.
Simon “Aces” Trumper won Late Night Poker way back in Series 2 and although he may have left the life of a professional poker player far behind he is still heavily involved in poker as the tournament director of Dusk ‘Till Dawn, the largest dedicated poker room in Europe.
He is just above starting stack and was marginally involved in a hand we just witnessed. It stared with a limp from first position which got three callers before Trumper completed the small blind and the big blind checked their option.
The flop was . The original limper checked and there was a bet of 1,100 and a call. Trumper and the big blind got out of the way but the under the gun player moved all in. It took a moment to make the decision but the player who led the flop made the call with .
Good call as he was up against the . The turn and river saw a nice double up.
When we swung by Simon Trumper’s table moment ago he was stacking chips that he didn’t have so long ago and talked us through what happened. According to Trumper seat 2 had gone on tilt and called when Trumper raised it up with .
The flop was and Trumper called a bet. The turn card was the and now with the nut flush Trumper gladly called a shove.
The thing was, said the player next to Trumper, he didn’t even have anything, he had .
Darvin Moon was down to only 1,100 chips an hour ago and was able to spin that up again by adding a zero at the end. Below are some other bigger stacks in the Pavilion room that we recognized.
There had been a limp and a call when the button moved all in for 1,600. Barny Boatman didn’t even need a count, he called and when the other players folded he showed and nodded when he saw the of his opponent.
The cards ran out .
Boatman took a dent to his stack, nothing too serious and remarked, “Flips man.”
Jason, Donnie, and Rich celebrate National Doughnut Day and talk about final table railing, vuvuzelas, the recent bracelet winners, and more. They are then joined by RunGood Team Pro and WSOP bracelet winner Bryan Campanello to talk Texas high school football, grinding the live circuit, and more.
The 2014 World Series of Poker is well underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but that's not the only place you can get your WSOP fix. From June 1-15, grinders in Nevada will be able to participate in the WSOP.com Online Championship Series.
The 15-event WSOP.com Online Championship Series festival features more than $550,000 in combined guarantees, and the winners of the first 14 events will all receive an entry into the $200,000 guarantee WSOP Online Championship Main Event on June 15.
Tonight's event, a $55 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout with a $5,000 guarantee, begins in a little less than an hour! Here's a look at the full schedule of events: