Friday, July 12, 2013 7:18 PM Local Time
Rafael Caiaffa Busts
Georg Lehmann and Rafael Caiaffa, who were very close in chips, got involved in an all in confrontation preflop. Caiaffa turned over , and he was behind Lehmann's . The board ran out . Lehmann's kings held up, and Caiaffa was eliminated from the tournament.
Rafael Caiaffa | 0 | -300,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:18 PM Local Time
Geshkenbein Gets 'Em Back
After losing a few pots, Vladimir Geshkenbein has once again climbed back up the charts by winning a million-chip race. The Russian was up against Carlo Savinelli, who was all in and at risk for around 520,000 with . Geshkenbein tabled , and the window card was the .
Unfortunately for Savinelli, it was followed by the , giving Geshkenbein a set of queens, and the . Savinelli was still alive when the turned, any ten would give him Broadway, but the bricked off on the river.
The Italian hit the rail, while Geshkenbein now has around 1.6 million chips.
Vladimir Geshkenbein | 1,600,000 | 450,000 |
Carlo Savinelli | 0 | -348,500 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:17 PM Local Time
Grand One for Petit
We arrived in the midst of preflop back-and-forthing between Emile Petit and James Alexander, sitting side-by-side in the cutoff and on the button, respectively. By then the pair had reached a point where Alexander was tasked with deciding whether or not to call a final reraise for 117,000 more from Petit, and with a big grin and a laugh Alexander said he was calling, thus creating a total pot of about 400,000.
Petit tabled and Alexander said "I'm gonna need to make two pair" as he turned over his . The flop came . "Or a straight," added Alexander, then the appeared on the turn to increase the possibility of that happening. But the river was the , and Petit won and survived.
"You're welcome, sir," said Alexander to Petit afterwards, then opened the next pot while saying "I gotta get those back."
James Alexander | 1,225,000 | -155,000 |
Emile Petit | 402,000 | 202,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:16 PM Local Time
Cold Four-Bet from Yilmaz
Tom Alner opened to 17,000 from early position, Tyler Cornell three-bet to 42,000 from middle position, then Erkut Yilmaz four-bet to 112,000 from the hijack seat. Everyone folded back to Alner, then he folded and Cornell followed suit, giving Yilmaz the pot.
Erkut Yilmaz | 700,000 | 270,000 |
Tom Alner | 615,000 | 138,000 |
Tyler Cornell | 535,000 | -55,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:14 PM Local Time
Cornell Busts Benac
Gregory Benac was all in preflop with the againt the for Tyler Cornell. The board ran out , and Benac was eliminated. Cornell climbed to 590,000 in chips.
Tyler Cornell | 590,000 | 508,000 |
Gregory Benac | 0 | -345,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:14 PM Local Time
Turner Doubles, Then Takes One from Raptor
After doubling on the previous hand through Aleksejs Ponakovs, Jon Turner opened with a raise from the small blind to 21,000. David Benefield made the call from the big to see a flop fall.
Turner bet and Benefield called as the landed on the turn and Turner led again; this time for 37,000. Benefield folded and slipped to 235,000 as Turner climbed to roughly 465,000 in chips.
Aleksejs Ponakovs | 1,365,000 | -195,000 |
Jon Turner | 465,000 | 215,000 |
David Benefield | 235,000 | -14,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:12 PM Local Time
Bardah Shoved On; Let's the World Know Koss Fathers Him
From under the gun, Ronnie Bardah raised to 17,000. Action folded all the way around to the player in the big blind, and he moved all in for 145,000. After tanking for a bit, Bardah folded and flashed just the . His opponent didn't show.
The ESPN cameras were filming as Bardah tanked. After the hand, Bardah began talking about how he had lost two pots since David Stefanski showed up on the rail to sweat him a little bit.
"I've lost the last two pots since you showed up!" Bardah yelled over to Stefanski. "But I'm not blaming you!"
Bardah want on to put on a bit of a show for the cameras, pointing out how he doesn't win all the pots, but Robert Koss, his tablemate, does. "This guy right here, he wins all the pots!" Bardah said, pointing to the Koss and looking at the cameras. Bardah then mimicked Norman Chad saying that if Koss goes deep, they will show this on ESPN and talk about how he wins all the pots.
"Every pot I play against him, he fathers me! Puts me in my crib!" Bardah finished with.
Ronnie Bardah | 640,000 | -10,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:11 PM Local Time
2012 Octo-Niner Rob Salaburu Eliminated
Rob Salaburu opened to 17,000 from middle position and Alexander Roumeliotis called from the hijack.
The flop came down and Salaburu checked to Roumeliotis who bet 22,000. Salabru raised all in for 283,000 and Roumeliotis called immediately with for top set. Salaburu trailed with and couldn't catch up as the turn and river ended his 2013 Main Event.
Alexander Roumeliotis | 634,000 | 289,000 |
Rob Salaburu | 0 | -277,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:10 PM Local Time
Obrestad Gets a Squeeze Through
After a raise from middle position by Alex Livingston, Adam Friedman called. Action folded around to Annette Obrestad who was in the big blind and she reraised to 70,000. The big blind folded back to Livingston who folded. After a quick thought, Friedman folded as well allowing Obrestad to take down the pot without seeing a flop.
Annette Obrestad | 894,000 | 44,000 |
Alexander Livingston | 806,000 | -9,000 |
Adam Friedman | 320,000 | 48,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:07 PM Local Time
Ponakovs Pressuring Sees Him Eyeing Top Spot
Ryan Olson opened to 18,000 from the hi-jack only to have Paul Taylor three-bet the cutoff to 40,000. With the action on Aleksejs Ponakovs on the button, he cold four-bet to 80,000 to force Olson's cards into the muck fairly swiftly.
With the action back on Taylor, he deliberated for close to 90 seconds before eventually releasing his hand to see Ponakovs pushed the pot to put him up to 1,560,000 in chips.
Aleksejs Ponakovs | 1,560,000 | 85,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:07 PM Local Time
Yen Does it Again
Simon Lam opened to 17,000 in late position, Tzu Yen, who barely survived the bubble, three-bet all in for 190,000 on the button, and Mauro Villegas tanked for a considerable amount of time before cold-calling in the small blind. The big blind and Lam quickly folded.
Yen:
Villegas:
Yen was dominated, but the flop fell , giving Yen an ace-high flush draw. Villegas held one of Yen's outs, but it didn't matter as the turned. A meaningless completed the board, and Yen doubled to 400,000 chips. Villegas slipped to 105,000.
Tzu Yen | 400,000 | 210,000 |
Mauro Villegas | 105,000 | -44,500 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:06 PM Local Time
Demidov Doubles
We didn't catch the preflop action, but former November Niner Ivan Demidov was all in with against Grayson Ramage's . Demidov had around 270,000 at risk, and he more than doubled that after the dealer rolled out the board.
Grayson Ramage | 676,000 | 151,000 |
Ivan Demidov | 560,000 | 375,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:06 PM Local Time
River Ace Saves Kimura
Kima Kimura opened with a raise to 16,000 from middle position, then Glen Rose reraised to 30,000 from a seat over in the hijack. It folded back around to Kimura who sat for a short while, then pushed all in for the rest of her chips.
The reraise-shove added up to 172,000 total, and Rose considered for over two minutes before finally making the call.
Rose turned over and Kimura , and just as Rose wished Kimura good luck, the dealer burned a card and slid the three flop cards out with the appearing right on top and the and underneath.
At that Kimura stood from her chair as the came out on the turn. The dealer then delivered the river… the ! Kimura quickly sat back down as the table reacted to the ace from space to save Kimura, and the pot was pushed her way.
Kima Kimura | 352,000 | 251,000 |
Glen Rose | 252,000 | 29,500 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:05 PM Local Time
Mann Cracks a Million
We walked over to the blue featured tables because we saw some cameras rushing over there. When we arrived, we saw that David Harvey had put his tournament life on the line preflop holding . He was in rough shape though, as Jason Mann was the player who he was up against, and Mann had woken up with . Mann never had to sweat the board, as it came down , giving Mann the pot, and upping his stack to 1.1 million in the process.
Jason Mann | 1,100,000 | 605,000 |
David Harvey | 0 | -261,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:57 PM Local Time
Allen James On Elarrar's Squeeze
From middle position, Robert Koss raised to 17,000. Kevin Allen made the call on the button, then Rafi Elarrar reraised out of the small blind to 47,000. Koss folded, then Allen shoved all in. Elarrar quickly folded, and Allen won the pot.
Robert Koss | 1,150,000 | 26,000 |
Kevin Allen | 1,010,000 | -15,000 |
Rafi Elarrar | 195,000 | -255,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:56 PM Local Time
Affleck Loses Race to be Eliminated
From early position Matt Affleck moved all in for 120,000 only to have Samuel Clements move all-in over the top next to act for 195,000.
Affleck:
Clements:
With Affleck racing for his tournament life, the board wouldn't connect with the Seattle, Washington native as he would be forced to exit the Main Event shy of bettering his 15th and 80th place finishes back in 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Samuel Clements | 350,000 | 152,500 |
Matt Affleck | 0 | -170,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:55 PM Local Time
Voilà
A very short-stacked Yann Migeon was all in and at risk preflop for his last 97,000 holding , and he was in very bad shape against Simon Lam's .
"Six of spades in the window," Vladimir Geshkenbein said, nudging a downtrodden Migeon.
The window was not the , rather it was the , but there was a seven on the flop. The on the turn was a brick, leaving Migeon with just five outs, and low and behold the completed the board to give him trips.
"Voilà," Geshkenbein said, grinning.
Simon Lam | 965,000 | -180,000 |
Yann Migeon | 215,000 | 45,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:55 PM Local Time
Updated Chip Counts From The Secondary Feature Table
Vimy Ha | 1,373,000 | 53,000 |
Annette Obrestad | 850,000 | -76,000 |
Alexander Livingston | 815,000 | 19,000 |
Yevgeniy Timoshenko | 566,000 | 20,000 |
Felix Kurmayr | 452,000 | 452,000 |
Javier Montano | 339,000 | 193,500 |
Adam Friedman | 272,000 | -16,500 |
Jared Woodin | 136,000 | -81,000 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:55 PM Local Time
407th - 430th Place
These players earned $28,063 for their Main Event finish. Keep an eye on the payouts tab for exact-place finishes.
Jair Beltran | 0 | -118,000 |
James Lee | 0 | -236,000 |
Scott Matte | 0 | -233,500 |
Marc Carpentier-Perrault | 0 | -327,000 |
Robert Demuch | 0 | -195,500 |
Peter Kamaras | 0 | -182,500 |
Timothy Finne | 0 | 0 |
Shawn Silber | 0 | 0 |
Benjamin Gold | 0 | -404,000 |
Andras Stumpf | 0 | -87,000 |
Jamie Dawick | 0 | 0 |
Paul Lackey | 0 | 0 |
Tim Davie | 0 | -314,000 |
Tuan Le | 0 | 0 |
Kenneth Hicks | 0 | -416,000 |
Harsukhpaul Sangha | 0 | -169,000 |
Doyle Brunson | 0 | 0 |
Emilio Dominguez | 0 | -116,000 |
Muhammad Abdel Rahim | 0 | 0 |
David Davenport | 0 | -39,000 |
Harry Maurer | 0 | -69,000 |
Nika Futterman | 0 | -187,000 |
John Keith | 0 | -155,000 |
Carlos Marques | 0 | 0 |
Eric Rappaport | 0 | -192,500 |
Friday, July 12, 2013 6:52 PM Local Time
Robert Spikes To Double Big
Bastian Fischer opened to 16,000, before Vincent Robert raised it up to 35,000. Fischer then bumped it up to 92,000, before Robert came back over the top for 225,000. Fischer then had enough, announcing all in for 855,000. Robert made the quick call, as both players showed their cards.
Fischer:
Robert:
After winning a big pot earlier, Robert looked in danger of being eliminated. However, he would flop the world, as the dealer produced the . The on the turn and on the river would provide no help for Fischer, as he was crippled down to 180,000 in chips.
Robert had the pot pushed his way, moving up to 1,370,000 in chips.
Vincent Robert | 1,370,000 | 725,000 |
Bastian Fischer | 180,000 | -640,000 |