Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:41 PM Local Time
Marvin Rettenmaier has the button in Seat 3.
David Randall raises to 90,000 from under the gun and action folds to Michael Smith who moves all in for 380,000 from the cutoff. Action folds back to Randall who makes the call.
Showdown
Michael Smith
David Randall
The rail moves towards the table because the TV's are momentarily out, and the flop falls giving Smith a leading pair of aces and a flush draw.
The turn is the however, and Randall steals the lead momentarily.
The rail is silent in anticipation, but explodes when the rivers giving Smith the winning flush!
Smith doubles to 775,000 chips and Randall slips to 1,700,000 chips.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:34 PM Local Time
Michael Smith has the button in Seat 2.
Austin McCormick limps in under the gun, and Smith calls as well. Marvin Rettenmaier folds his small blind, and Tom Dwan knocks the table for a free flop from the big.
It comes , and Dwan checks. McCormick and Smith follow suit, and the turn comes the . Dwan leads out with a bet of 115,000, McCormick calls, and Smith does so as well to put a pretty sizable pot in the middle of the table with one card to come.
The last card off is the , and Dwan takes his pause for a moment. Eventually, he loads the catapult again and lobs out a bet of 270,000. McCormick takes his time debating before releasing his hand, and now it's Smith's turn in the tank. He takes about two minutes to deliberate before splashing in the calling chips.
Dwan turns over for two pair, and Smith can't beat it. He puts his cards in the muck, and Dwan has retaken the chip lead with very close to 3 million.
Smith is down to just 380,000.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:27 PM Local Time
Jason Young has the button in Seat 1.
Action folds to Michael Smith who moves all in from the small blind. Marvin Rettenmaier gives up his big blind and Smith wins the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:25 PM Local Time
Simon Watt has the button in Seat 9.
Austin McCormick raises to 95,000, and David Randall reraises to 235,000 straight. The table folds back to McCormick, and he pulls the neck of his hoodie up over his mouth as he mulls over the decision. After just about 20 or 30 seconds, though, he decides a fold is in order, and Randall takes it down with that three-bet.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:22 PM Local Time
David Randall has the button in Seat 8.
Michael Smith raises to 110,000 from under the gun and the action folds to Jason Young in the big blind. Young tanks for a moment or two before folding and the dealer ships Smith the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:20 PM Local Time
Austin McCormick has the button in Seat 5.
Under the gun, Jason Young raises to 90,000. Tom Dwan makes the call a few seats over in position, and they go heads up to the flop.
It comes , and Young knocks the table. Dwan does the same, and the appears on fourth street. Young stacks out 150,000 and slides the chips forward, and that wins him the pot as "durrrr" quickly releases his cards.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:18 PM Local Time
Tom Dwan has the button in Seat 4.
Action folds to Marvin Rettenmaier who ships it all in from the cutoff. Dwan and the blinds fold winning him the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:16 PM Local Time
Marvin Rettenmaier has the button in Seat 3.
David Randall raises to 90,000 under the gun and takes the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:14 PM Local Time
Michael Smith has the button in Seat 2.
Action folds to Smith who ships on the button. The blinds release and he wins the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:14 PM Local Time
Hand #26:
Jason Young has the button in Seat 1.
Austin McCormick raises to 95,000 in early position before Kyle Winter moves all in for 405,000 right behind him. In the small blind, Michael Smith makes the call, and Winter is officially at risk. Not to be outdone, McCormick moves all in over the top of both players. After some hemming and hawing, Smith ducks out of the way, and McCormick is heads up with a chance at the knockout.
McCormick:
Winter:
The board comes . Unable to improve his overcards, Winter has been eliminated in 8th place, and that's two knockouts in the first three hands back from break.
What dinner coma?
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:14 PM Local Time
Simon Watt has the button in Seat 9.
David Randall raises to 90,000 and takes the pot right there.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:10 PM Local Time
Hand #24:
David Randall has the button in Seat 8.
Action folds to Eric "AvrilSharapova" Ladny in the cutoff who opens to 95,000. Randall folds his button and Simon Watt shoves from the small blind. The big blind folds and Landy makes the call:
Showdown
Ladny:
Simon:
"ACE!!!!! QUEEN!!!!!" Ladny's rail yells.
The dealer wraps the table and fans out .
The rail grows louder, but is silenced as the spikes on the turn.
The hand is over, and Ladny is standing to leave as the falls on the river.
He shakes some hands before leaving the tournament area to collect $45,603 for his 9th place finish.
Watt is now sitting with 2,090,000 chips.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 7:12 PM Local Time
Tom "Durrrr" Dwan isn't spending his one-hour dinner break eating and refueling. Instead, he's moved over to Event No. 15: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship and is trying to build up a stack over there. If you'd like to follow coverage of his multi-tabling, head over to that live reporting page [URL="http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2010-wsop/event-15/"]here[/URL] while you wait for the final table to recommence.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 7:01 PM Local Time
That's the end of the level, and the final nine are headed off for a one-hour dinner break. We're going to go get you some hard counts from the table after they color up the yellow T1,000 chips, and then we're going to go stuff our faces too.
Play will resume just a few minutes after 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:55 PM Local Time
Michael Smith opened to 83,000 from early position and Tom "durrrr" Dwan three-bet to 228,000 in middle position. The action folded back Smith who tanked under Dwan's stare. He eventually made the call, and the flop fell .
Smith quickly checked to Dwan who thought for a second before betting 94,000. Smith promptly moved all in and Dwan snap-folded.
Smith chipped up to 1,085,000 chips and Dwan dropped down to 2,415,000.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:53 PM Local Time
David Randall opened to 75,000 under the gun, and he found one call from Austin McCormick on the button.
Heads up, the two men took a flop of . Continuing his preflop aggression, Randall fired out 110,000, and McCormick made the call to see another card.
The dealer put the innocent-looking down on fourth street, and Randall wasn't slowing down now. He fired a second bullet 250,000 chips strong, and that was good enough to earn him the pot as McCormick fired his cards into the muck.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:46 PM Local Time
Simon Watt raised to 75,000 from the hijack seat and Marvin Rettenmaier moved all in for 462,000 from the small blind. Watt tank-called and the hands were tabled:
Showdown
Marvin:
Watt:
The crowd boo'd as the dealer wrapped the table and flopped . The chop was official with the on the turn and the on the river was but a formality.
All that excitement for nothing.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:35 PM Local Time
We haven't had a flop in over ten minutes and the rail is becoming somewhat restless.
"Just flop it!" somebody yelled at the dealer moments ago.
There was a three-bet from David Randall though, our first at the final table.
Marvin Rettenmaier opened the pot to 80,000 from middle position and Randall re-popped to 225,000 from the small blind. Rettenmaier relased and Randall was shipped the pot.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:21 PM Local Time
Tom "durrrr" Dwan just received a walk in the big blind.
Somewhere Mike Matusow just cussed aloud.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:20 PM Local Time
Austin McCormick opened the pot to 66,000 before Kyle Winter moved all in for 425,000 total. The action came back to McCormick, and he thought it over for just a minute before releasing his cards into the muck.