Kevin Detienne arrived at his new table and raised to 8,500 pre flop, the small blind called and then check-folded the flop for 12,000 with 66,000 behind. "Would you have called if I shove?" he asked. "Well, I had an over pair. But I hate pocket jacks," was the reply from Detienne. One hand later, a short stack busted in a battle of the blinds with versus and we are down to 109 players.
Ramana Epparla was facing an all in on the turn of a board reading . He thought about it for a long time. In the end he thought about it for too long and another player at the table called the clock on him, the first time we have seen that happen in this tournament.
It was claimed he had been thinking for five minutes but that may have been a slight exaggeration. Epparla had the all in player covered but it was a hefty bet.
The floor arrived and gave Epparla his one minute countdown. With less than ten second to go he released his hand. As his opponent collected the pot he told him, “King jack of hearts.” The flopped straight.
Whatever Epparla folded it seemed he had got away from it running into the nuts.
We saw a heads-up flop and the opponent of Deborah Phillips moved all in for 34,000 out of the big blind. "So you got a made hand?" she asked at him. The dealer reminded both that they cannot talk about their hands but pretty much everything else. Phillips eventually folded but is still up above average for now.
One table over, another participant realized that he in fact outlasted more than 4,300 players already. Quite an achievement indeed. :)
The run good of Michael Wilson continues as he knocked out one of the remaining ladies after calling her preflop all in for 15 big blinds with . She turned over and then said "my favorite card is a nine on the river," after noticing the hand of her opponent. Wilson stayed ahead though on the board and the table is loaded with plenty of bigger stacks.
Peter Alson has been grinding a 20 big blind stack almost the entire day and is still hanging in, now with slightly more than his usual comfort zone. We did notice Tanya Gawarecki call two all ins with to face as well as . The board ran out and one of the short stacks hit the rail whereas the other pretty much tripled up.
Simon “Aces” Trumper was getting short and open shoved from the button into the big blind, who he described as the tightest player on the table. The player in the big blind duly called with and Trumper had been caught making a move with .
There was to be no salvation on the final board of .
This was Trumper’s first event of the series and his first cash. He confirmed to PokerNews that he plans to play 10 events so we doubt that’s the last we’ll see of him,
Milton Jaffee's son Jared is a well-known pro who has shined on several of poker's most prestigious stages, as his $1,655,465 in reported live earnings can attest.
For the last two days though, Jared was reduced to the role of railbird, sweating his father's action as Milton went deep in the Seniors Championship.
Jared was on hand throughout the day to offer support and talk his father through rundowns of recent hands, and while Milton's run recently ended with a 181st place finish for a $2,986 score, it was clear that skill on the felt runs strong in the Jaffee family.
flop for 12,000 with 66,000 behind. "Would you have called if I shove?" he asked. "Well, I had an over pair. But I hate pocket jacks," was the reply from Detienne. One hand later, a short stack busted in a battle of the blinds with 
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and we are down to 109 players.
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