Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:35 PM Local Time
A tale of two chip stacks tell us that Aryeh Cohen entered the day as the chip leader with 180,00 and Kurt Jewell was a re-entry that began with a measly 20,000. Now the two are even in chips. Needless to say, it's been a good Day 2 for Jewell, and it got a little better after he took a decent pot off Cohen.
We caught the action with three players in the hand and around 20,000 in the pot on a board reading . A player in middle position had checked to Jewell, and he bet 11,500. Cohen called from the cutoff, the other player folded, and it was heads-up action to the river.
Jewell immediately slid out a big bet of 28,300 and Cohen hit the tank. Several minutes passed in which Cohen counted out chips and looked back at his cards, but ultimately he decided that folding was the thing to do.
"Did I give you too much credit?" Cohen asked after he sent his cards to the muck. There was no response.
Kurt Jewell | 155,000 | 59,000 |
Aryeh Cohen | 155,000 | -25,000 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:35 PM Local Time
Mark Dube has just eliminated Brent Johnson in a large-pot hand that saw Dube use to better Johnson's after the board came .
Mark Dube | 152,000 | 56,000 |
Brent Johnson | 0 | -69,700 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:30 PM Local Time
A big hand just went down over at Table 14 that resulted in Ben Reason knocking out two players and taking over the chip lead here at Foxwoods.
It happened when Chris Tryba, who re-entered at the start of the day, shoved with the and Kevin McColgan moved all in over the top with the . Reason woke up with in the big blind, made the call, and was pushed the hefty pot after the board ran out jack high.
Both Tryba and McColgan were eliminated on the hand while Reaso chipped up to nearly 280,000!
Ben Reason | 280,000 | 129,700 |
Kevin McColgan | 0 | -72,700 |
Chris Tryba | 0 | -20,000 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:21 PM Local Time
The conversation is lively over at Table 11, where another round of antes — currently 200 per player — prompted some conversation about that old WSOP story regarding Prahlad Friedman and Jeff Lisandro from late in the 2006 Main Event.
Many recall how Friedman had mistakenly accused Lisandro of not contributing an ante before a hand, which led to a lengthy, tense exchange between the pair. A younger player at the table wasn't familiar with the story's details, and so Raymer and Paredes were offering to explain.
"He said 'I'll knock your block off'" said Paredes with a wide grin, paraphrasing Lisandro's answer to having been wrongly accused, and his listener laughed in response.
Everyone's contributing their antes in orderly fashion at Table 7, and so far both Paredes and Raymer have been collecting a few more back as they've both improved upon their starting day stacks.
Greg Raymer | 138,000 | 48,500 |
David Paredes | 92,000 | 10,300 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:05 PM Local Time
It appeared a short-stacked Ross Santos attempted to steal the blinds with the by shoving after action folded to him in the cutoff. Unfortunately for him, Christopher Manning made the call with the and ended up winning after the board ran out .
Ross Santos | 0 | -34,300 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:03 PM Local Time
Kurt Jewell and Ronnie Bardah are sitting at the same table, both having bought in at the start of play today in an effort to double up quickly with relative short stacks and get back into contention. And both are off to positive starts here in the first hour of play.
Jewell had already added chips before recently knocking out David To to push his stack up close to 100,000.
In that hand flop action saw To all in and ahead with on a board versus Jewell's . But the turn brought the to improve Jewell's pair to a flush, and the added a cherry on top by completing a straight flush.
"The man, the legend," said Bardah afterwards as he snapped a picture of Jewell with his phone.
Soon thereafter it was Bardah picking up pocket aces and doubling himself.
"35-ball... back in action!" said Bardah, referring to his newly-bolstered stack.
Kurt Jewell | 96,000 | 76,000 |
Ronnie Bardah | 35,000 | 15,000 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:56 PM Local Time
"Whaddya gonna do?"
So asked Don Rosenberg of no one in particular following his last hand of the WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event.
We missed the action prior to the turn, but by then Rosenberg was all in with versus the of John Yale and the first three community cards were .
An unenviable spot no doubt for Rosenberg, and the turn card — inspiring calls for a fourth heart from him — added further to the disappointment as the river came the . Asking his questions, Rosenberg headed railward.
John Yale | 108,000 | 56,000 |
Don Rosenberg | 0 | -29,500 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:53 PM Local Time
On a board reading , Terry Grimes checked from the small blind and Bobby Corcione took the opportunity to bet 7,200. Grimes, who has flanked by a beautiful woman the entire tournament, made the call and then checked the river. Corcione fired out 8,200 and Grimes snap-called.
"You win," Corcione sheepishly said. Grimes then tabled the for two pair with an ace kicker. Corcione simply mucked and took stock of his remaining chips.
Terry Grimes | 140,000 | 53,800 |
Bobby Corcione | 80,000 | -31,400 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:40 PM Local Time
Natale Kuey | 0 | -38,600 |
Frank Callucci | 0 | -25,100 |
Joe Cote | 0 | -44,400 |
Nicholas Ricciardi | 0 | -42,500 |
Mike Nye | 0 | -50,300 |
Richard Bourgoin | 0 | -16,100 |
James Kramer | 0 | -23,100 |
Leonard Anderson | 0 | -18,500 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:40 PM Local Time
Following a middle-position limp, a short-stacked James Campbell pushed all in from the button for 19,700 total. Mike Massri, sitting to Campbell's left in the small blind, leaned forward to examine the amount of the raise, then said he was calling. Allen Kessler folded the big blind, as did the limper.
Campbell:
Massri:
An ace was the first visible card as the dealer spread the flop to the right , causing Massri to sit up slightly in his seat while Campbell remained stoic. The turn was the and river the , and Campbell took his leave.
James Campbell | 0 | -32,500 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:38 PM Local Time
With 9,000 in the pot and a flop of , John Dibella checked from the big blind and Brian Phelon bet 5,200 from the button. Dibella responded by moving all in for 18,800 more, Phelon called, and the cards were turned up.
Dibella:
Phelon:
"Smooth call pre?" someone asked of Dibella, who had apparently flatted from the big blind. It would prove a wise decision if he could avoid a Phelon's flush draw. He did so on the turn, and managed to fade the river when the harmless rolled off.
John Dibella | 52,000 | 21,600 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:30 PM Local Time
We saw a disgusted Stephen Kendra exiting the tournament area and quickly made our way over to Table 10. All we know is that Kendra had gotten his stack all in prior to the river holding on a board, and he was out in front of John Yale's . Unfortunately for him, the spiked on the river to give Yale a bigger full house and the win.
Meanwhile, Jia Liu, Joel Silverwatch, Anthony Casagrande and Tyler Noyes have all been eliminated from the tournament.
Tyler Noyes | 0 | -23,500 |
Anthony Casagrande | 0 | -24,800 |
Joel Silverwatch | 0 | -35,300 |
Jia Liu | 0 | -70,100 |
Stephen Kenda | 0 | -16,000 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:29 PM Local Time
Arkadiy Tsinis won Event #6 earlier this week at Foxwoods, topping a field of 212 to win the ring in the $580 no-limit hold'em event. But Tsinis was near the bottom of the counts to start today's second day of the Main Event, with about as many people ahead of him than he topped earlier in the week.
Tsinis lasted about an orbit today, then a hand arose in which he pushed his short stack of 15,200 all in from the cutoff seat and found himself up against Bob Ricciuti playing from the blinds.
Tsinis had and Ricciuti . The flop came , then the fell meaning Tsinis was drawing dead.
Arkadiy Tsinis | 0 | -14,500 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:19 PM Local Time
Players were able to re-enter up until the start of play today, and numerous pros took advantage. Ronnie Bardah, Victor Ramdin and Will "The Thrill" Failla have opted to fire another bullet, as did Micah Raskin, who lasted less than three minutes.
We didn't see the hand but overheard Raskin explain to a friend what had happened. According to him, the player on the button opened for 4,500 and Raskin looked down at in the big blind. He shipped his stack of 20,000 and the button called with . It was a flip, and one that did not come down in Raskin's favor. On to the next one.
Ronnie Bardah | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Victor Ramdin | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Will Failla | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Micah Raskin | 0 | 0 |
Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:12 PM Local Time
After about a 10-minute delay, cards are in the air for Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event.
Sunday, April 7, 2013 9:09 AM Local Time
Welcome to Day 2 of the first ever World Series of Poker Circuit Foxwoods Casino Main Event. The 578 total entries who came out for Saturday's Day 1 exceeded the expectations of many, with 196 players managing to survive one of the two first-day flights. Of that group it was Aryeh Cohen emerging with the most chips of anyone after turning a starting stack of 20,000 into an even 180,000 during yesterday's action.
Cohen had made it up over 100,000 within the first eight of the 12 40-minute levels played yesterday, then not long after that won a huge ace-king versus pocket tens hand to push into the chip lead. The Brooklyn-based player then bolstered his stack even further before play concluded to claim first position heading into today's second day.
The earlier flight saw a larger turnout with 350 players taking a shot during the Day 1a session. From that group just 123 made it through, with Eric Rando ending the afternoon with the biggest stack of 143,100. Erek Gaines had been flirting with the 200,000-chip mark near the end of the flight, but lost a couple of pots during the final level to end in second position among the afternoon players with 133,600.
The evening flight then saw 228 entries, with a number of the Day 1a bustouts among that group. From that latter collection of players 73 survived, four of whom would end the night with bigger stacks than Rando's — Cohen, Igor Borukhov (163,300), Buck Ramsay (158,600), and holder of one WSOP Circuit ring Benjamin Reason (150,300). Like Cohen, the others all similarly scored big knockout hands during the final levels of play to end the night bagging their large stacks.
Other big stacks to start today include Luke Vrabel, David Singer (not the New York-based WSOP bracelet holder, by the way), Bobby Corcione (who took 21st at last summer's WSOP Main Event), and two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Nancy Birnbaum. And there are a number of other notables with above-average chips still in the field, too, including two-time WSOP bracelet winner Andy Frankenberger, 2004 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Raymer, one-time WSOP bracelet winner Ylon Schwartz, and two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Allen Kessler.
Late registration remains open up until the first hands are dealt at noon today, meaning we may well see a few more take seats and the total field size sneak back up over 200 players when play resumes. The schedule calls for three more 40-minute levels (through Level 16), then hour-long levels after that.
Meanwhile, come back at noon ET to join our full coverage of Day 2 of the 2012-13 WSOP Circuit Main Event at Foxwoods here at PokerNews.
Sunday, April 7, 2013 7:51 AM Local Time
Aryeh Cohen | 180,000 | 0 |
Igor Borukhov | 163,300 | 0 |
Buck Ramsay | 158,600 | 0 |
Ben Reason | 150,300 | 0 |
Eric Rando | 143,100 | 0 |
Erek Gaines | 133,600 | 0 |
Tom Cope | 126,500 | 0 |
Cory Waaland | 126,300 | 0 |
John Pito | 124,900 | 0 |
Luke Vrabel | 116,200 | 0 |
Jonathan Lewis | 116,100 | 0 |
David Singer | 115,000 | 0 |
Ramy Ibrahim | 112,200 | 0 |
Bobby Corcione | 111,400 | 0 |
Nancy Birnbaum | 109,500 | 0 |
Ethan Foulkes | 109,200 | 0 |
Stephen Hesse | 107,800 | 0 |
Brian Phelon | 107,100 | 0 |
Thomas Mitchell | 107,100 | 0 |
Steven Minsaas | 105,500 | 0 |
Matthew Silberzweig | 104,000 | 0 |
Kevin Saul | 103,300 | 0 |
Nithin Eapen | 94,700 | 0 |
Joshua Leventhal | 94,000 | 0 |
Andy Frankenberger | 94,000 | 0 |
Michael Newman | 93,700 | 0 |
Patrick Chan | 93,000 | 0 |
Joseph Matos | 92,700 | 0 |
Thomas Walsh | 91,100 | 0 |
Christopher Manning | 89,900 | 0 |
Greg Raymer | 89,500 | 0 |
Nesrine Kourdourli | 87,000 | 0 |
Bob Ricciuti | 86,900 | 0 |
Fred Paradis | 86,800 | 0 |
Mark Aridgides | 86,700 | 0 |
Terry Grimes | 86,200 | 0 |
Chris Schonbach | 86,100 | 0 |
Steven Brackesy | 86,000 | 0 |
David Carleton | 85,200 | 0 |
David To | 85,000 | 0 |
Kleovoulos Kamais | 84,900 | 0 |
Andrew Higgins | 83,900 | 0 |
L.J. Sande | 82,700 | 0 |
Haralambos Saridis | 82,400 | 0 |
David Paredes | 81,700 | 0 |
She Wong | 80,500 | 0 |
Alexander Wilson | 80,300 | 0 |
Jonathan Gray | 79,400 | 0 |
Eric Blair | 78,000 | 0 |
Shaun Suller | 77,800 | 0 |
Mark Dube | 77,300 | 0 |
Doug Mandeville | 77,200 | 0 |
Anthony Bruno | 76,400 | 0 |
Bill Rothstein | 76,200 | 0 |
Alex Ortiz | 76,100 | 0 |
Kammar Andries | 74,800 | 0 |
Ylon Schwartz | 73,900 | 0 |
Larry Samet | 73,100 | 0 |
Julio Martini | 72,700 | 0 |
Kevin McColgan | 72,700 | 0 |
Allen Kessler | 72,300 | 0 |
Frederick Kammerer | 72,300 | 0 |
Jamie Galioto | 71,500 | 0 |
Muamar Asad | 70,600 | 0 |
Jia Liu | 70,100 | 0 |
Kyle Bowker | 70,000 | 0 |
Brent Johnson | 69,700 | 0 |
John McNabola | 69,200 | 0 |
Bharat Lall | 69,000 | 0 |
Tarun Gulati | 68,700 | 0 |
Lawrence Greenberg | 66,400 | 0 |
Andrew Badecker | 65,800 | 0 |
Luke Allain | 65,500 | 0 |
Thomas Hand | 65,000 | 0 |
Mohd Eid | 64,300 | 0 |
Z Stein | 63,900 | 0 |
Chris DiBiase | 63,300 | 0 |
Chris Meyers | 63,000 | 0 |
Albert Smith | 61,100 | 0 |
Dmitriy Shiluikov | 60,400 | 0 |
Nick Petrangelo | 60,000 | 0 |
Christopher Mintchev | 59,400 | 0 |
Mazen Nesheiwat | 57,600 | 0 |
Jimmy Seaver | 57,400 | 0 |
David Moyer | 57,400 | 0 |
Paul Snead | 57,300 | 0 |
Charbel Azzi | 57,000 | 0 |
Paul Applebaum | 56,600 | 0 |
Yury Parad | 55,700 | 0 |
Daniel Burke | 55,500 | 0 |
Jason Payne | 55,300 | 0 |
Ray Hicks | 55,300 | 0 |
David Coppersmith | 55,000 | 0 |
Tanya Kirk | 54,900 | 0 |
Joseph Tieri | 54,300 | 0 |
Rob Garrett | 53,400 | 0 |
Milton Thomas | 53,200 | 0 |
Rory Anderson | 52,300 | 0 |
John Yale | 52,000 | 0 |
Art Pappas | 51,600 | 0 |
Stephen Dare | 51,500 | 0 |
Daniel Marino | 51,200 | 0 |
Ted Spencer | 51,000 | 0 |
Mike Massri | 50,800 | 0 |
Mike Nye | 50,300 | 0 |
Ken Hoey | 50,000 | 0 |
Justin Pechie | 49,300 | 0 |
Marc Zelina | 48,900 | 0 |
John Weiss | 48,500 | 0 |
Alexander Queen | 48,400 | 0 |
Matthew Lombardi | 48,100 | 0 |
Dennis Chorny | 48,000 | 0 |
Alex Rocha | 45,300 | 0 |
Joe Cote | 44,400 | 0 |
Richard Zisk | 44,100 | 0 |
Bryan Leskowitz | 43,900 | 0 |
John Cicerani | 43,600 | 0 |
Sherwin Agard | 43,600 | 0 |
Adam Bitker | 43,200 | 0 |
Glen Minxolli | 42,700 | 0 |
Nicholas Ricciardi | 42,500 | 0 |
David Walton | 42,400 | 0 |
Aditya Prasetyo | 41,200 | 0 |
David Difilippo | 40,700 | 0 |
Jonathan Davis | 40,600 | 0 |
Robert Hover | 40,000 | 0 |
Mark Alves | 39,300 | 0 |
Natale Kuey | 38,600 | 0 |
Kurt Prondecki | 38,400 | 0 |
Gary Boulay | 37,600 | 0 |
Hassan Babajane | 37,600 | 0 |
Zhang Jiacong | 37,200 | 0 |
Chris Vogel | 36,900 | 0 |
Rob Rosen | 36,500 | 0 |
Josh Quint | 36,500 | 0 |
James Gateson | 36,300 | 0 |
Kyle Loman | 36,200 | 0 |
Allie Prescott | 35,600 | 0 |
Peter Campo | 35,500 | 0 |
Joel Silverwatch | 35,300 | 0 |
Spencer Champlin | 34,800 | 0 |
Paul Garcia | 34,400 | 0 |
Ross Santos | 34,300 | 0 |
Derrick Perry | 33,900 | 0 |
Ari Engel | 33,300 | 0 |
Alex Rago | 32,800 | 0 |
Nikola Curanovic | 32,500 | 0 |
James Campbell | 32,500 | 0 |
Rick Allison | 32,200 | 0 |
Tim Lahey | 31,600 | 0 |
John Smith | 31,400 | 0 |
Antonio Bueti | 31,100 | 0 |
John Dibella | 30,400 | 0 |
James Frangoulidis | 30,100 | 0 |
Dave DiBiasio | 30,000 | 0 |
Don Rosenberg | 29,500 | 0 |
Alan Becker | 29,500 | 0 |
John Shortell | 29,400 | 0 |
Gregory Folchetti | 29,100 | 0 |
Fabio D'Agata | 29,100 | 0 |
David Hickman | 29,000 | 0 |
Je Oh | 28,800 | 0 |
Christopher Renaudette | 28,700 | 0 |
Daniel Chan | 28,600 | 0 |
James Paras | 28,000 | 0 |
Michael Hodgdon | 28,000 | 0 |
Jonathan Sorscher | 27,000 | 0 |
Domenick Cutola | 27,000 | 0 |
Shawn Driscoll | 26,900 | 0 |
Julie Bae | 25,300 | 0 |
Frank Callucci | 25,100 | 0 |
Dominick Pelli | 24,800 | 0 |
Anthony Casagrande | 24,800 | 0 |
Charles Beshwati | 24,200 | 0 |
Matt Solitro | 24,000 | 0 |
Tyler Noyes | 23,500 | 0 |
James Kramer | 23,100 | 0 |
John Ingemi | 23,000 | 0 |
David Grandieri | 23,000 | 0 |
Rita Davison | 23,000 | 0 |
Lila West | 22,300 | 0 |
James Burgio | 22,000 | 0 |
Elzear Bouffard | 21,500 | 0 |
Jon McFarland | 21,000 | 0 |
Jorge Confesor | 20,700 | 0 |
Jason Ruotolo | 20,000 | 0 |
Kyle Sparks | 19,700 | 0 |
David Sapery | 19,700 | 0 |
Jose Alicea | 19,300 | 0 |
Jeff Saunders | 18,600 | 0 |
Fred Carlson | 18,500 | 0 |
Leonard Anderson | 18,500 | 0 |
Richard Bourgoin | 16,100 | 0 |
Stephen Kenda | 16,000 | 0 |
Arkadiy Tsinis | 14,500 | 0 |
Brandon Mandy | 12,300 | 0 |
Tony Mandia | 9,020 | 0 |