Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:43 PM Local Time
Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri has been eliminated, his chair remaining empty for a short while before being filled by Erik Cajelais. Soon after Cajelais was in action, trying to see if the seat would work out better for him.
Cajelais opened with a raise to 2,000 from middle position, and the big blind defended. The flop came . Cajelais' opponent checked, he bet 3,200, and his opponent called. Both then checked the turn.
The river brought the and a bet of 5,000 from the big blind. Cajelais sat for a moment, then tossed his cards away. He has about 60,000 now.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:42 PM Local Time
Erik Cajelais fired out 2,300 on a flop against one player, then another 4,000 on the turn - both times he was called. On the river Cajelais checked and immediately folded when his opponent threw out several orange 5k chips into the middle.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:38 PM Local Time
We were walking through the orange section and we noticed a player who has graced the ESPN cameras before. It was Darus Suharto, who made the final table of the 2008 Main Event, finishing in 6th. Suharto has laid relatively low since that result, posting just five live results in the last three years. However, he is here today and he just won a nice sized pot.
We missed the action before, but Suharto had a short stack all in in a coin flip. Suharto held , and his opponent had . The flop came out , giving his opponent more outs for a counterfeit. The came on the turn, and Suharto would have to dodge a king, queen, jack, or five on the river. That card was the , which was safe for Suharto. He took the pot, and now has a stack over 60,000.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:36 PM Local Time
The cutoff (also coincidentally the player who won a huge side pot with against Ramdin's flopped straight earlier) got into a major raising war against Victor Ramdin. When we arrived, there was already a 3,600 bet in front of the former (judging by the pot, there might have been some limpers) and Ramdin had made it 8,400 on the button.
Then the cutoff virtually clicked it back, making it 17,000 to play. Ramdin recounted his stack before deciding to just flat call in position as the flop came down . The cutoff quickly lead out for 22,000 and Ramdin tanked for a minute as the rest of the players at the table got more and more interested in the hand. Alas, just as their interest had piqued, Ramdin elected to fold to his nemesis.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:36 PM Local Time
| Anthony Miller | 200,000 | |
| Todd Brunson | 115,000 | 30,000  |
| Blair Hinkle | 105,000 | 80,500 |
| David Vamplew | 100,000 | -5,000  |
| Carlos Mortensen | 85,000 | -13,000 |
| Rupert Elder | 85,000 | 0 |
| Young Phan | 80,000 | |
| Vivek Rajkumar | 50,000 | -17,000 |
| Matt Marafioti | 35,000 | |
| Andy Black | 27,000 | -18,000 |
| Erick Lindgren | 24,000 | 13,500 |
| Jennifer Harman | 23,000 | -13,000 |
| Ray Henson | 12,000 | -7,500 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:35 PM Local Time
We caught up with the action to see Patrik Antonius bet 6,200 on a board of . His opponent decided to put in a raise, making 12,800 and Antonius three-bet all in. His opponent called off his last 15,000 only to run into the top pair of Antonius' . We missed his opponent's hand but he failed to improve on the turn and river and Antonius was able to scoop the pot, bringing him up to 220,000 in chips.
| Patrik Antonius | 220,000 | 30,000 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:34 PM Local Time
The 2011 World Series of Poker drew 6,865 runners and created a prize pool worth $64,531,000 that will be distributed among the top 693 players. Here is a look at the payouts for the top 99:
| Place | Prize |
|---|
| 1 | $8,711,956 |
| 2 | $5,430,928 |
| 3 | $4,019,635 |
| 4 | $3,011,665 |
| 5 | $2,268,909 |
| 6 | $1,720,396 |
| 7 | $1,313,851 |
| 8 | $1,009,910 |
| 9 | $782,115 |
| 10 - 12 | $607,882 |
| 13 - 15 | $478,174 |
| 16 - 18 | $378,796 |
| 19 - 27 | $302,005 |
| 28 - 36 | $242,636 |
| 37 - 45 | $196,174 |
| 46 - 54 | $160,036 |
| 55 - 63 | $130,997 |
| 64 - 72 | $108,412 |
| 73 - 81 | $90,343 |
| 82 - 90 | $76,146 |
| 91 - 99 | $64,531 |
To see the entire list of payouts, head here.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:31 PM Local Time
Here are counts from the Blue Section
| Ryan D'Angelo | 287,000 | 0 |
| - | 255,000 | 0 |
| Elie Payan | 145,000 | 0 |
| Bryan Colin | 140,000 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Gross | 127,000 | 0 |
| Minh Nguyen | 118,000 | 0 |
| David Williams | 115,000 | 0 |
| - | 112,000 | 0 |
| Steven Kelly | 112,000 | 0 |
| Javier Martinez | 110,000 | 0 |
| - | 107,000 | 0 |
| Derek Lerner | 81,000 | 0 |
| Leif Force | 77,000 | 0 |
| Alexandre Gomes | 76,000 | 0 |
| Chad Batista | 71,000 | 0 |
| Jorge Arias | 65,000 | 0 |
| Jean-Robert Bellande | 54,000 | 0 |
| Kathy Liebert | 53,000 | 0 |
| Arthur Walker | 51,000 | 0 |
| Pascal Lefrancois | 46,000 | 0 |
| Salvatore Bonavena | 35,000 | 0 |
| Berry Johnston | 28,000 | 0 |
| Shawn Cunix | 28,000 | 0 |
| Greg Mueller | 24,500 | 0 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:28 PM Local Time
| Amanda Musumeci | 170,000 | -20,000 |
| Daniel Suied | 150,000 | 25,000 |
| David Chiu | 147,000 | 17,000 |
| - | 135,000 | 34,000 |
| Dan Kelly | 135,000 | -20,000 |
| Mike Carson | 120,000 | 16,000 |
| Andrew Chen | 120,000 | |
| - | 115,000 | 6,000 |
| Dax Mellon | 110,000 | -12,000 |
| - | 90,000 | 19,000 |
| David Levi | 85,000 | 20,000 |
| Emil Patel | 80,000 | -5,000 |
| Vanessa Rousso | 70,000 | -7,000 |
| Lars Bonding | 70,000 | 30,000 |
| Tim West | 65,000 | 19,000 |
| Bryan Micon | 63,000 | |
| - | 63,000 | 20,000 |
| Robert Varkonyi | 60,000 | -11,000 |
| Richard Lyndaker | 57,000 | 24,000 |
| - | 52,000 | -8,000 |
| Amnon Filippi | 50,000 | -40,000 |
| Noah Boeken | 50,000 | 0 |
| Jason Lester | 47,000 | -16,000 |
| Darvin Moon | 45,000 | -1,000 |
| Will Souther | 43,000 | |
| David Bach | 35,000 | -33,100 |
| Chau Giang | 25,000 | -1,850 |
| Terrence Chan | 22,500 | 7,000 |
| Jonathan Aguair | 21,000 | 4,000 |
| Amit Makhija | 21,000 | 475 |
| David Ulliott | 17,000 | 0 |
| Luca Pagano | 11,000 | -16,500 |
| Randy Dorfman | 11,000 | -38,000 |
| Eric Mizrachi | 8,000 | -5,000 |
| Luca Moschitta | 0 | |
| Masa Kagawa | 0 | |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:22 PM Local Time
We caught up with the action on a flop. The player in the big blind checked, prompting a c-bet of 4,100 from his lone opponent - Patrik Antonius. The big blind then check-raised to 12,200. Antonius remained stoic, as he usually does, and quietly announced, "Re-raise." Antonius then put together a bet of 20,300 and slid it into the middle. Antonius' opponent mucked after some deliberation.
Antonius is up to 190,000.
| Patrik Antonius | 190,000 | 10,000 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:20 PM Local Time
| Claudia Crawford | 175,000 | |
| Shankar Pillai | 140,000 | |
| Phil Laak | 126,000 | 3,000 |
| Anthony Rivera | 118,000 | |
| Shawn Keller | 115,000 | -21,000 |
| John Racener | 108,000 | -14,000 |
| Matt Matros | 106,000 | -2,000 |
| Guillaume Rivet | 100,000 | -45,000 |
| Freddy Deeb | 98,000 | -16,000 |
| Doug Lee | 90,000 | |
| Galen Hall | 87,000 | |
| James Carroll | 85,000 | |
| Ricky Fohrenbach | 85,000 | -17,700 |
| Matt Stout | 81,000 | -4,000 |
| Mathieu Clavet | 78,000 | |
| - | 69,000 | 13,000 |
| - | 58,000 | 37,075 |
| Chris Lindh | 52,000 | |
| Cole Swannack | 47,000 | |
| Rayan Nathan | 40,000 | |
| Mike Sexton | 39,000 | 12,000 |
| Scott Clements | 38,000 | 0 |
| Eric Siegel | 35,000 | |
| Diego Brunelli | 33,000 | 8,175 |
| Odette Tremblay | 31,000 | -9,000 |
| Tommy Hang | 15,000 | |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:18 PM Local Time
Sam Simon was heads up with an opponent, and the board read . Simon led for 6,500, and his opponent reluctantly called.
"Queens," the player said to Simon.
Simon, looking as though he had been rivered, unhappily mucked his hand. His opponent tried to muck as well, but, per tournament rules, his hand had to be opened. The player showed . Simon shot him a very confused look.
"I'm sorry," the player apologized. "I thought you had queens."
"You said queens," Simon responded. "I thought you had queens."
"I should've just kept my mouth shut," the man apologized again. "I just always fear for the worst. I'll buy everyone a drink when we're done."
| Sam Simon | 108,000 | -8,000 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:14 PM Local Time
Action folded around to the button, who made it 2,500 to go. Online phenom and bracelet winner Dan "djk123" Kelly reraised it to 7,000 in the small blind. The big blind folded, and the button shoved all in for around 14,000. Kelly made the call, and was in a dominating position.
Kelly:
Opponent:
The flop brought two black cards, but they weren't the ones that Kelly was worried about, coming . The turn paired both, coming the , and the river paired the board, bringing the . Kelly's jack played, and it was good enough to score the knockout, upping his stack to over 150,000.
| Dan Kelly | 155,000 | 92,000 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:14 PM Local Time
That was a longer than usual break. Enough time to forget all about what happened before, for some.
Just after the start of Level 8, a player being escorted by Chris, one of the tournament directors, was walked into the middle of the purple section. "Okay players in the purple section," said Chris into a mic over the public address. "We have a player here who can't remember his seat. Does anyone recognize this gentleman? Was he playing with you?"
Laughter echoed around our corner of the Amazon. Getting no response, Chris and the player repeated the sequence over in the Blue section. Again, more laughter, but no help for our lost player. Finally, Chris narrowed things down a bit further.
"Okay, dealers," he said. "Is there a black sweater on an empty seat at your table?"
A hand went up, and applause rang 'round the room as our lost player was at last reunited with his chip stack.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:03 PM Local Time
After what was essentially a double break due to the color up, the cards are back in the air. We will be going to dinner in two hours.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:03 PM Local Time
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:55 PM Local Time
On the last hand before the break, we noticed that Kenny Tran was all in with against his opponents on a flop. The table was waiting for the ESPN cameras to set up, and that gave us time to talk to table mate Amit Makhija who told us about the hand. There was a raise from under the gun, and four callers, including Tran on the button. The small blind led out on the flop, and Tran shoved his last 15,000, getting a call from the small blind.
After about 45 seconds of waiting, the camera were rolling, and Tran was ready to see how his fate would turn out. Unfortuantely, it didn't go so well, as the completed his opponent's flush, and ended Tran's day. The completed the board, and Tran was sent to the rail, ending his day and tournament.
| Kenny Tran | 0 | -15,000 |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:50 PM Local Time
The tournament staff is in the process of coloring up the green T25 chips. Understandably, it's taking quite a while with all of the tables in play. They have restarted the break clock, and cards will be in the air in about 14 minutes.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:26 PM Local Time
Level 7 is over, and players are on another 20-minute break.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:26 PM Local Time
With 3,500 in the pot and a board reading , Darvin Moon checked and his opponent checked right behind. Moon showed for a small flush, but it was no good against the button's . Both players were in good spirits and seemed to be playing quite friendly.
Moon is sitting with 46,000.
| Darvin Moon | 46,000 | -3,000 |