Slight Delay to Restart
Numbers are being confirmed and tables balanced, the cash desk readied for the onslaught of post-bubble eliminations. Play will resume when all is shipshape and ready to play to the bubble and beyond.
Numbers are being confirmed and tables balanced, the cash desk readied for the onslaught of post-bubble eliminations. Play will resume when all is shipshape and ready to play to the bubble and beyond.
Niveau: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Mark Kroon and Mansour Alipourfard were at it again in another heads-up pot just before the money bubble burst.
The action came back around to Kroon, who was under the gun preflop, and he pushed his massive half-million-plus stack all in, putting a player in middle position, as well as Alipourfard on the hijack, at risk.
The player between Kroon and Alipourfard folded, but Alipourfard thought he saw a glimpse of an ace as that player mucked. He contemplated the decision for a couple of minutes before mucking himself, showing the as he turned in his hole cards.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Mark Kroon |
625,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Mansour Alipourfard |
210,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
Albert Halfon, one of the largest-stacked players at the end of Day 1, is his table's chip leader with over 250,000. He just opened a pot under the gun +1 for 29,000, and picked up the 10,000 in blinds and antes, everyone staying out of his way (the next highest stack playing against him at the moment is 150,000, with four shortish stacks bubble-dodging on his table).
The bubble is upon us. The screens say that 890 remain, and the tournament will be dealt hand-for-hand until the money is reached, unless the requisite two bust-outs happen on the current hand.
Mahesh Rathi was congratulated by his table when the bubble (which burst during that first pause, to the delight of the room in general) passed him by with a stack of just 1,000. In fact it wasn't a "stack" but one yellow chip.
"I feel like I just won the event!" he said.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Mahesh Rathi |
1,000
-183,600
|
-183,600 |
"Want to cover the nit in seat three?" was the question from a neighbour as a smiling Ron Bryner moved his last few thousand over the line, called in four spots. "Turn it over?" he asked, but the three players with chips were yet to act.
"He's been folding so long he's forgotten how it works," a needling tablemate said.
The flop came down , a player holding bet off the other two, and Bryner's ended up being his final hand in the Seniors Event.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Ronald Bryner | Eliminé |
Adilson Moraes is back up to the 600k mark after scoring an elimination on an all-in preflop hand.
Adilson Moraes;
Opponent:
Moraes and the opponent were off to the races, and the runout sealed the deal, as the Day 1 chip leader Moraes continues to work toward the goal of securing the Day 2 chip lead as well.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Adilson Moraes |
615,000
-22,000
|
-22,000 |
|
A giant cooler saw three players commit their stacks to the pot preflop, with the winner Gary Beaver taking down 630,000, instantly propelled into the top ten in chips. The hands: , and . Beaver with the aces was "caught" in the middle of a raising war between a player with around 70,000 and another with over 100,000; when the board was dealt it contained no upsets to the natural order of high pairs.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Gary Beaver |
630,000
521,100
|
521,100 |
Mark Kroon |
580,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
Samkyu Chung |
565,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
Danut Chisu |
482,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
Mike Ruter |
455,000
343,900
|
343,900 |
|
||
Douglas O'neal
|
385,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
David James |
250,000
174,000
|
174,000 |
Yue Du |
250,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
|
||
Philip Tom |
220,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Keith Littlewood |
220,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
Layne Flack |
210,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
|
||
Barry Greenstein |
150,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
||
Allyn Shulman |
115,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
||
Barbara Enright |
75,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|