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Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:45 PM Local Time
Chip Counts from Brasilia Bronze
| Tim Stansifer | 471,000 | -10,500  |
| Peter Neff | 440,000 | 50,800  |
| Cameron Smith | 300,000 | 37,800 |
| Jonathan Dimmig | 278,000 | 278,000 |
| Brian Hastings | 157,100 | 157,100 |
| Jens Kyllonen | 149,500 | 27,300 |
| Seth Berger | 134,000 | 134,000 |
| Matthew Ashton | 125,500 | 125,500 |
| Max Pescatori | 123,000 | 123,000 |
| Eric Wasserson | 37,100 | -5,900 |
| Theo Jorgensen | 28,800 | -21,800 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:42 PM Local Time
"Play Bad and Win is My Strategy"; Von Kriegenbergh Now Over 300K
Catching the action on the turn with the board reading , a healthy pot was brewing between Thomas Popov and Taylor von Kriegenbergh.
Popov had bet 58,000 — effectively all in since he left just a 1,000-denomination chip to cap his cards — and von Kriegenbergh was deep into the tank. Several minutes went by before von Kriegenbergh pushed out a stack of orange 5,000-denomination chips and Popov tossed in his last chip to call all in.
Popov:
Von Kriegenbergh:
With Popov in the lead with his overpair and needing to fade a five, four, or ace, the dealer would smack the on the river to send Popov off to the rail in a hurry as von Kriegenbergh was pushed the pot to send him to over 300,000.
As von Kriegenbergh began raking in the pot, he discussed the hand a little with the players around him before concluding, "play bad and win is my strategy!"
| Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 301,500 | 72,000 |
| Thomas Popov | 0 | 0 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:37 PM Local Time
Greenwood Knocks Calderaro Out
World Poker Tour winner James Calderaro has just been knocked out by Lucas Greenwood.
The action started with a raise to 4,000 from middle position by the Canadian player and a Calderaro three-bet from the cutoff to 9,000. It folded back to Greenwood who looked at Calderaro's stack for a few seconds before sliding a big stack of orange chips forward. This was enough to put his opponent all in, and after about 25 seconds Calderaro called off his remaining 40,000 chips.
Calderaro:
Greenwood:
The board ran out , and the king on the river ended Calderaro's chances of making it deep in this year's Main Event.
| Lucas Greenwood | 280,000 | 74,000 |
| James Calderaro | 0 | -20,700 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:36 PM Local Time
A to Z, Zettel Gets Early Aces
With more than 30,000 in the middle already, the flop came and Meikat Siu checked. Timothy Zettel bet 27,000, and Siu called. The turn brought the . Siu checked again and when Zettel shoved for 34,000, Siu called.
Zettel turned over and Siu showed . The river brought the just to hammer the point home, bringing an early double-up to Zettel.
| Timothy Zettel | 156,000 | 156,000 |
| Meikat Siu | 26,000 | 26,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:36 PM Local Time
Negreanu Off to Good Start
We weren't able to catch how he did it, but we did notice that Daniel Negreanu is now sitting with significantly more chips than what he had to start the day — more than double, to be exact — so it's safe to assume that he likely scored a double-up during early action.
| Daniel Negreanu | 76,500 | 37,600 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:34 PM Local Time
Chip Counts from Pavilion
| Isaac Baron | 440,000 | 52,800 |
| Grayson Ramage | 285,000 | -100 |
| Blake Whittington | 235,000 | 5,000 |
| Maria Mayrinck | 205,000 | 205,000 |
| Kenny Tran | 125,000 | 125,000 |
| John Holley | 115,000 | 115,000 |
| Matthias De Meulder | 108,000 | 108,000 |
| Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 90,000 | 8,200 |
| Greg Mueller | 78,000 | 78,000 |
| Hasan Habib | 75,000 | 75,000 |
| Aaron Massey | 68,000 | 10,200 |
| Jonathan Aguiar | 58,000 | 22,200 |
| Johnny Chan | 46,000 | 46,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:32 PM Local Time
Rystadt's Big Raise
With about 50,000 in the middle on a three-way flop of and 65,000 sitting in front of Tyler Patterson, Curtis Rystadt bumped it up to 165,000. The other player in the hand folded quickly and after a moment, Patterson followed suit.
| Curtis Rystadt | 330,000 | 330,000 |
| Tyler Patterson | 64,000 | -67,900 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:30 PM Local Time
Busquet Slays the Shark
Action folded around to Costa Rica's Humberto Brenes on the button and he opened big to 6,000. Olivier Busquet was in the small blind and opted to play back with a three-bet to 20,000. The big blind folded and then Brenes stared his opponent down before sliding his stack of 60,000 or so in the middle. Busquet snap-called.
Brenes:
Busquet:
"I didn't believe you," Brenes told Busquet, who had the best of it. Even so, Brenes was drawing to two live cards. That changed though when the flop delivered Busquet a pair of aces.
"Just to make it interesting," Kevin Pollak said just after the dealer burned and turned the , which gave Brenes a flush draw. It certainly was exciting, but Brenes would find no luck on the river as the useless peeled off.
| Olivier Busquet | 145,000 | 59,900 |
| Humberto Brenes | 0 | -62,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:28 PM Local Time
Amazon Orange Notables
| John Hennigan | 342,700 | 0 |
| Scott Palmer | 292,600 | 0 |
| Abe Mosseri | 260,500 | 0 |
| Ryan Hall | 241,700 | -20,100 |
| Mark Newhouse | 220,400 | 220,400 |
| Phil Galfond | 165,400 | -500 |
| Joe Tehan | 143,100 | 143,100 |
| Jason Wheeler | 115,700 | 0 |
| Bruno Lopes | 95,300 | 95,300 |
| David "ODB" Baker | 88,800 | 0 |
| Owen Croew | 87,000 | |
| Ryan Lenaghan | 81,200 | 81,200 |
| Andrew Lichtenberger | 76,200 | 76,200 |
| Brian Yoon | 62,400 | 62,400 |
| Brigette Lau | 62,200 | 62,200 |
| Maria Ho | 49,300 | 0 |
| Mike Wattel | 43,000 | 0 |
| JJ Liu | 42,000 | 42,000 |
| Gabriel Nassif | 24,000 | 24,000 |
| James Calderaro | 20,700 | 20,700 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:25 PM Local Time
Schwamman Rivered to the Rail
James Schwamman opened to 3,600 from early position only to have Ian Simpson three-bet next to act to 7,600. Once the action returned to Schwamman, he four-bet to 15,600, then Simpson moved all in. Schwamman called all in for roughly 34,000 total, and the cards were tabled.
Schwamman:
Simpson:
With Schwamman at risk but in the lead, the flop gave Simpson outs to a flush, and when the landed on the turn, six more outs were added for Simpson as he could now strike a chop.
The dealer then delivered the on the river to pair Simpson's king, and Schwamman was sent to the rail as Simpson climbed to 144,000 in chips.
| Ian Simpson | 144,000 | 144,000 |
| James Schwamman | 0 | 0 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:24 PM Local Time
A Set For Oh
The board read when we picked up the action as Samuel Taylor checked to Jeffrey Oh. Oh bet 12,400 in position and after a while Taylor called.
The river was the and Taylor checked once more. Oh bet 25,000 with not too many chips left behind, and Taylor made the call.
Oh showed for a flopped set and took the pot down.
| Samuel Taylor | 160,000 | 160,000 |
| Jeffery Oh | 135,000 | 135,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:24 PM Local Time
Notables and Big Stacks in Brasilia Red
| Steve Tripp | 379,000 | -1,400 |
| Paul Bennett | 345,000 | 345,000 |
| Timothy Reilly | 333,000 | -21,500 |
| Barry Hutter | 320,000 | 320,000 |
| Vegard Nygaard | 305,000 | -8,000 |
| Chris Johnson | 233,000 | 233,000 |
| Larry Ormson | 222,000 | -22,000 |
| Jared Bleznick | 205,000 | 205,000 |
| Ronnie Bardah | 202,800 | -13,000 |
| Haralabos Voulgaris | 195,000 | 30,300 |
| Manig Loeser | 193,000 | 193,000 |
| Konstantin Puchkov | 191,000 | 191,000 |
| Matt Haugen | 159,000 | 159,000 |
| Brett Richey | 137,000 | 24,000 |
| Jonathan Little | 135,000 | -7,200 |
| Olivier Busquet | 85,100 | 4,100 |
| Jesse Capps | 81,000 | 81,000 |
| Todd Brunson | 70,000 | 70,000 |
| Kevin Pollak | 68,100 | 68,100 |
| Jorn Walthaus | 65,500 | -2,200 |
| Humberto Brenes | 62,000 | 62,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:23 PM Local Time
Willis Doubles Through Ivey
Phil Ivey raised from early position to 3,800. Action then folded to Robert Willis in the big blind, and he reraised all in for 12,500. Ivey called with the , and Willis had the .
Although Ivey took the lead on the flop, turn turn card gave Willis a set. The river was the , and Willis was able to double up.
| Phil Ivey | 495,000 | -10,500 |
| Robert Willis | 26,000 | 26,000 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:22 PM Local Time
Brasilia Blue Names and Counts
| Raul Mestre | 477,900 | 0 |
| Artem Litvinov | 194,200 | 0 |
| Layne Flack | 186,100 | 186,100 |
| Duncan McLellan | 177,000 | 177,000 |
| Bryan Huang | 168,700 | 168,700 |
| Seamus Cahill | 127,800 | 127,800 |
| Alec Torelli | 108,600 | 108,600 |
| Bodo Sbrzesny | 59,300 | 59,300 |
| Paul Pritchett | 55,900 | 55,900 |
| Byron Kaverman | 29,000 | 0 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:20 PM Local Time
Amazon Tan Notables
| Jason Riesenberg | 235,900 | 235,900 |
| Ole Schemion | 180,900 | 180,900 |
| Marvin Rettenmaier | 173,200 | 0 |
| Alex Queen | 149,200 | 0 |
| Roland Israelashvili | 147,700 | 0 |
| Farzad Bonyadi | 142,000 | 142,000 |
| John Juanda | 133,700 | 0 |
| Bernard Lee | 118,400 | 0 |
| Allen Cunningham | 114,400 | 0 |
| Anthony Zinno | 75,800 | 0 |
| Mike Sowers | 70,300 | 70,300 |
| David Singer | 68,600 | 68,600 |
| Blair Hinkle | 44,700 | 0 |
| Daniel Negreanu | 38,900 | -900 |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:20 PM Local Time
A Few Brasilia Blue Stacks
| Eric Tracy | 294,400 | -500 |
| Ismael Bojang | 155,000 | -700 |
| Brian Roberts | 142,500 | 142,500 |
| Vladimir Shchemelev | 140,100 | 140,100 |
| Tyler Patterson | 131,900 | 131,900 |
| Tatiana Barausova | 103,800 | 103,800 |
| Danielle Andersen | 82,900 | 82,900 |
| Bruce Buffer | 71,100 | 71,100 |
| Paul Klann | 41,000 | 41,000 |
| Christina Lindley | 34,400 | 34,400 |
| Randy Lew | 26,700 | 26,700 |
| Huy Nguyen | 19,100 | 19,100 |