It's been all Farukh Tach in the first level of the day over at table #462 in Amazon Purple. Tach, who started at 1.2m, eliminated several players to soar to 1,770,000.
According to Tach, he first eliminated a player in an all-in situation with pocket tens against ace-queen, where his tens held up. Shortly after, another player opened to four big blinds, the button called and Tach peeled as well with in the big blind.
On an flop, the initial raiser shoved 150,000 — twice the size of the pot — with . Tach called and held up to send another one to the rail.
Ben Yu was on the button with having been dealt as the community. He had a wager of 150,000 in front of him, which looked to be slightly under the size of the pot, and Lawrence Ma was thinking things over in the big blind. Eventually, he called, and Yu just mucked his cards and conceded the pot.
"Man this table would make a great TV table!" stated Frankie Flowers after dragging a pot.
Flowers broke down his chip stack, and it amounted to be over the two million chip mark meaning that Flowers is the first player to cross this threshold.
Three players saw a flop of and Robert Moore moved all in for 32,000 into a main pot of 54,000. The player in middle position thought it over for quite some time before folding and Or Ben snap called last to act.
Moore showed for top pair and Ben held both straight and flush draws with his . The dealer burned and turned the improving Ben to a king high flush leaving Moore drawing dead. The meaningless hit the river and Ben earned the pot and the elimination.
Patrick Sacrispeyre was walking with a payout slip out of the tournament area and mentioned he was part of a three-way all in that saw him at risk with queens.
"The one big stack behind me turned over aces and made quads," Sacrispeyre said in French and that happened to be Frankie Flowers. A quick look at the table showed more than two million for Flowers, who was in great mood as usual and even kissed the dealer right after he was done stacking the chips.
Darryl Ronconi opened with a raise to 17,00 before Andrew Yeh made it 39,000 from late position. Action folded to the blinds where Daniel Peche moved all in with his short stack for 26,000 and Ronconi and Yeh both called creating a side pot with heads up action.
The flop came down and Ronconi checked then called a bet of 27,000 from Yeh.
The turn was the and Ronconi checked again. Yeh fired a bet of 78,000 and Ronconi folded so Peche and Yeh showed down their cards.
Andrew Yeh:
Daniel Peche:
Peche turned a straight while Yeh had top set. Unfortunately the river was the and that filled up Yeh to a boat and sent the short stack Peche to the rail.
"Hey! Hey! Hey PokerNews!" bellowed Eric Hicks as a PokerNews reporter was walking past his table.
Hicks was in the middle of a hand where he was facing a check-raise from Timothy McDermott, and eventually decided to fold.
"I got a story to tell you." Hicks added.
"I'm serious. You need to write this down. This is the best hand every played." Hicks continued.
As the PokerNews reporter stood there listening, Hicks continued to splurge details.
"So this guy there had like 120,000" Hicks stated as he pointed to seat five that is currently occupied by Adam Levy.
"Not me. The guy before me" Levy confirmed.
"So he raised big, like 20 or 30,000, and I looked down at seven-deuce. I thought about just folding, but I was like why not, so I called." Hicks stated.
"The flop was like king-eight-deuce and I checked to him, and he bet big; like 20,000 again. I just shoved all in for like 150,000 and he went into the tank!" Hicks continued before he just starts laughing out loud.
"I didn't want to break him, but now I wanted to break him, and he was in pain sitting there thinking and rubbing his head." Hicks added.
"Eventually he calls with King-Queen. And then a deuce came on the turn and I broke him!" Hicks remarked and then laughed again.
"I broke him so good. You gotta write the hand. It's the best. All these guys aren't having fun, but I am!" Hicks stated to complete his story.