Friday, June 18, 2010 8:19 PM Local Time
William Kakon either limped in or raised in early position - either way Alexander Queen, reduced to just 180,000, got his last in, Kakon called, and they were on their backs.
Kakon:
Queen:
Board:
Queen didn't spike any kings or aces, but he had made a flush by the river and doubled to 470,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 8:15 PM Local Time
William Kakon open shoved the pot for about 555,000 chips and Christopher Gonzales called.
Showdown
Kakon:
Gonzales:
Flop: and Kakon shouted, "Deuce!"
Turn:
River: and Kakon shouted, "YES!"
Double up for Kakon, is now up to 1,110,000 chips. Gonzales slipped to 2,450,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 8:06 PM Local Time
It's not quite the final, but it sure feels like it - all 10 players have squashed around the main feature table and cards are in the air. The railers now get seats. There is some serious tension in the air.
Good luck, all!
Friday, June 18, 2010 7:57 PM Local Time
Well that didn't take long.
Neil Channing, the table short stack, wasted absolutely no time in getting his 300,000 or so in the middle. He was up against Chris Gonzalez.
Channing:
Gonzalez:
Board:
With that, we are at our unofficial 10-handed final table, and players have moved over to the main stage across the room.
Friday, June 18, 2010 7:51 PM Local Time
There has been some discussion of perhaps turning this into a four day tournament - it's 9pm and we still have 11 players, meaning that we could be in for a really long night. If we make our final in the next hour or so, we'll play on; if it looks like it's going to take much longer than that then players and TDs will reassess.
For the moment, cards are in the air.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:47 PM Local Time
The yellow chips are being raced off, and thereafter players will be on a one hour dinner break. 11 players remain.
Back in 60.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:44 PM Local Time
Curiousness at the outer table and it folded around to David Wilkinson in the small blind, who limped. Billy Griner in the big blind raised to 175,000 and, thinking that Wilkinson had folded as he couldn't see any cards, turned his hand over - .
Problem with this was, Wilkinson still had cards - they were just under his hand.
The floor was called, and it was ruled that rather than the 175,000 that Griner had actually raised, the bet would only be a minimum raise to 60,000. Wilkinson was permitted to act, and Griner would be issued with a one round penalty at the end of the hand.
Wilkinson called, and they checked down the board. Wilkinson mucked at the end of the hand, and once Griner had raked in the pot he headed off to spend a round at the rail. Most unusual.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:33 PM Local Time
We're not sure how the action went, but we arrived to find Jason Hallee (cutoff) all in and Neil Channing (small blind) his sole opponent.
Hallee:
Channing:
Board:
Channing didn't look happy after that as he slipped to a 415,000 short stack. Hallee remained expressionless as he doubled to 890,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:29 PM Local Time
William Kakon raised and it folded around to Jeff Cohen who took his time but eventually made the call.
They saw a flop, which Cohen checked. Back to Kakon, who announced all in for 310,00 - although seeing as it was largely in yellow 1,000-denomination chips, it looked like a lot more to the untrained eye. Either way, Cohen insta-folded, and both players were at 600,000 after the hand - although they were moving in opposite directions.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:27 PM Local Time
When we arrived at the table the board read . William Kakon and Jeff Cohen were head's-up and they both checked.
The turn card was a and once more, both players checked. The river brought a to the table, and Kakon fired a 130,000-chip bet. Cohen snapped and tabled .
Kakon punched the table and slipped to 400,000 chips. Cohen is now up to 800,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:17 PM Local Time
Jason Hallee opened for around 60,000 under the gun and the action moved on to Neil Channing, who asked Hallee how much he was playing (answer - 460,000 behind). He thought about it for a while and then re-popped to 167,000. It folded right back around to Hallee, and he quickly folded too, leaving himself the shortest stack at the chipped-up feature table.
Friday, June 18, 2010 6:11 PM Local Time
From middle position, Billy Griner opened the pot with a 80,000-chip raise. William Kakon re-popped it to 250,000 in the big blind. Griner moved all in and Kakon tanked.
The clock was called and in the last second, Kakon folded pocket tens face up.
Griner tabled and took the pot. Kakon slipped to 600,000 chips and Griner moved up to 1,100,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:58 PM Local Time
It folded around to Jeff Cohen in the small blind, who announced all in for just about 10 big blinds. In the big blind, Alexander Queen tanked up for some time. We rather feel for Queen - he seems to have spent an awful lot of the day with one short stack or another to his right, attempting to steal his blinds. After a while he made the call.
It was a good call.
Queen:
Cohen: dominated with
Board: bink!
Cohen's pair of fours was good enough to double him up to 540,000. Queen was left with 450,000.
"Not good enough," he sighed.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:52 PM Local Time
While most of the chips are up on the feature table, down on the second table David Wilkinson and Billy Griner are trading chips back and forth like there's no tomorrow.
Most recently, Wilkinson just limped in on the small blind and big blind Griner checked his option. They saw a flop.
Flop:
Wilkinson checked to Griner, who bet 50,000. Back to Wilkinson, who now check-raised all in.
Griner tanked up for a long, long time, his leg jiggling frantically. Eventually he called.
Griner:
Wilkinson: some rather sneakily played
Turn:
River:
Wilkinson doubled to 565,000 while William Kakon reassured the devastated Griner that he had done the right thing. Griner dropped back to 700,000 after that.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:45 PM Local Time
Martin Jacobson raised to 55,000 from the cutoff seat and Mike Ellis moved all in in the big blind. Jacobson called the additional 350,000 chips.
Showdown
Ellis:
Jacobson:
The board, gave Ellis a double up. Ellis moved to 815,000 chips and Jacobson slipped to 1,300,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:34 PM Local Time
When we arrived at the table the board read and Jean Gaspard moved all in from the small blind. William Kakon snap called in middle position.
Gaspard tabled for top pair and gutshot, and Kakon tabled for top two pairs.
The turn card was a and the river brought a to the felt. Gaspard is our 12th place finisher and took home $33,191.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:26 PM Local Time
No more grinding for Billy Griner, as he doubled through the newly chipped-up David Wilkinson to put him up to around a million in chips.
Wilkinson:
Griner:
Board:
"YES!" cried Griner as the nine fell on the flop, "Drawing dead to an ace, dead to an ace..."
He duly doubled up, to everyone's amusement except Wilkinson's, who grudgingly paid up and dropped down to 500,000 or so.
"What would an ace do?" TD Nikki asked Griner. "It'd fill you up."
Replied the very emotional Griner, "Yeah... I'm a little slow."
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:21 PM Local Time
The chips all went in preflop, and when they came out again they went straight into David Wilkinson's stack.
Markus Lehmann:
Wilkinson:
Board:
The three on the flop gave Lehmann a bit of a sweat, but it was not to be and he headed for the payout desk.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:14 PM Local Time
Jeff Cohen raised to 112,000 in the small blind and Alexander Queen moved all in from the big. Cohen tanked, and called the additional 179,000 chips.
Queen tabled pocket nines and Cohen tabled . The board gave Queen a double up. Cohen slipped to 320,000 chips and Queen is now up to 500,000.
Friday, June 18, 2010 5:07 PM Local Time
Chris Kastler opened the pot from under the gun, with a 75,000-chip raise. Next to speak, Allen Stern moved all in for an additional 400,000 chips.
The action arrived to Neil Channing in the big blind who tanked. After a while, Channing folded and Kastler announced the call.
Showdown
Stern:
Kastler:
"Here I go again...", said Kastler.
The board sent Stern to the rail in the 14th place. Kastler is now up to 1,980,000 chips.