Event #10: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Regional Championship - Nationally Televised

The World Series of Poker Circuit Northeast Regional Championship resumed on Monday with 93 players remaining from the starting field of 136 to battle it out on Day 2. Seven levels and change were played and when it all said and done, only 27 were left in what was an action-packed day of poker. Ending the day at the top of the counts was Chris Bell with 434,500.

Bell started the day with 56,850, but scored knockout after knockout to vault to the top of the counts. Among those that had their bell rung were Anthony Newman, Dwyte Pilgrim, Brent Hanks, John Cernuto, and Chris Reslock. Hot on his heels, though, is Seth Fischer with 386,700. Also still in is David Sands, already with one WSOP-C Regional Championship final table under his belt.

Play resumes at 12pm local time Tuesday and will continue until the final table of nine is set. Until then, good night from Atlantic City!

The table folded around to the blinds, and Lee Childs moved all in from the small. He had    , and his shove might have worked if Duane Goodison hadn't woken up with a hand like     in the big blind. But he did, and he called, only slightly covered by Childs.

The board ran out          , and Goodison's jacks double him up. Childs is now badly in need of one of those double up things; he's left with just 500 chips.

On the next hand, Childs had to post the 400-chip ante to leave himself with just one, single chip of the lowest denomination in play, T100. He got it in there with    , and he was able to overcome an opponent's     to take the first step back towards a respectable chip stack. He's not quite there yet, but he's back to 2,800 now.

Under the gun, Chris Klodnicki raised to 5,500, and Micah Raskin and Jason Burt called in position. From the small blind, Lee Childs moved all in for 18,000, and Duane Goodison reraised all in for 64,600 right behind him. That folded the three monkeys in the middle, and Childs was heads up for his tournament life. And racing:

Childs:    

Goodison:    

Childs managed to hold his tens as the board ran out          , and he's worked his stack all the way back to 56,000. Our math tells us that Goodison is left with 46,600.

This hand took nearly ten full minutes to play out, and we didn't even get to see all five community cards.

It started with Ketan Pandya opening to 6,300 from the button. From the small blind, Christian Harder three-bet to 17,600, and Pandya tanked for a long while before flatting to take a look at the flop.

It came      , and it took a couple more minutes for Harder to check-call a bet of 17,200 from Pandya. The   turn drew another eventual check from Harder, and Pandya must have sat still for three or four minutes before stacking out a bet of 34,500 and sliding it across the imaginary betting line. There was another long pause while Harder tanked, but he eventually surrendered his cards and let Pandya drag the chips to move to about 192,000. Harder has just over 75,000 left.

Bryn Kenney shoved his last 2,500 chips in from early position, and Eli Berg isolated him with a reraise to 8,000. Kenney was at risk with the    , and he was a favorite to score his first small double up against Berg's    .

But the dealer had other ideas. The board came          , and Kenney will not have another chance to get his chips back. He's out, and Berg is up to 105,000.

Ronnie Bardah just walked past us giving the international sign of elimination, the fingers across the throat. Our intrepid field reporter was tableside when it went down. Jason Burt opened to 6,000 before Bardah shoved his ~52,000 into the middle with    . When it came back around to him, Burt made the call with    , and the race was on.

Bardah's horse could not catch up as the board came           to send him to the exit. "I've never won a race with ace-king. Ever."

In late position, Jim Collopy open-shoved for just less than 35,000. Two seats down, Victor Ramdin made the smooth call, and the rest of the table folded out of the way. Collopy was at risk as the cards were turned up, and the news was not good for "Mr_BigQueso":

Collopy:    

Ramdin:    

A noise came from Collopy like that of a dying animal, and he stood up to sweat his fate. There was no help for him on board, though, as the dealer ran out           to seal his demise. Collopy wished his table luck, then stood and chatted with Ramdin for a few minutes. As he left, he let out one more big sigh and said, "God! Victor is so good at getting better pairs than me!"

Ramdin and his overpair have climbed to 210,000 courtesy of that knockout.

Chris Reslock got it all in with     on a       flop, betting it all on the draw. Chris Bell was on the draw, too, but his     was already well ahead when he made the call to put Reslock at risk.

The turn and river blanked off for Reslock, and he was unable to improve his draw. He snagged a gold ring last week, winning the Seven-Card Stud Event #9 here, but his Regional Championship has come to an end.

Bell, on the other hand, is doing rather well. Like, chip leading kind of well. He's got 384,000 and the biggest stack in the room by our eyes.

Jim Collopy has about 37,000 chips left and a herd of ants in his pants. Collopy can rarely be seen sitting in his chair these days, instead preferring to wander the tournament floor like a nomad in between hands. He meandered over to where we were standing and started shooting the breeze.

"I need chips. I have no chips." We asked him how many he left to find out he's hovering around the point of no return with 15 big blinds.

"That's a problem," we said. "Especially considering the goal of this particular poker tournament is the accumulation of chips."

"Yes," he nodded and smirked. "What with the escalating blinds and shortening tables and all."

"Indeed," we answered.

Collopy started to walk away but turned back. "I keep talkin' up a chop, but nobody's listening yet. Even chop?"

Two simultaneous hands at adjacent tables:

Eli Berg was the first to find pocket aces, and he got his last ~50,000 chips into the middle preflop with    . Action came from Bryn Kenney and his    , and the board ran out          . Berg is up to 105,000 now, dropping Kenney down to about 57,000.

At nearly the same time, Wooyang Lin was looking down at his own    . Jared Jaffee was the preflop aggressor, and he made the covering raise with    . It was a half-slowroll by Lin as he let out a big sigh and slowly grabbed the last of his chips, taking about ten seconds to make a call that should have taken one. In any event, the call came, and the board ran out           to hold Lin's aces and double him up to 124,000. Jaffee is down to 62,000 and still jawing at Lin a little bit. He finished with something along the lines of, "You know what? If I keep talking to you, I'm just going to get angry."