Twenty-two-time Olympic medal winner Michael Phelps has joined the rail here at Event #21 apparently supporting Jeff Gross.
2014 World Series of Poker
Hand #15: Jeff Gross opened from the cutoff and took the pot.
Hand #16: Dominik Nitsche raised to 48,000 under the gun, and Dave D'Alesandro called. D'Alesandro check-folded to 60,000 on the ![]()
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flop.
Hand #17: Thayer Rasmussen raised to 50,000 and won the pot.
Hand #18: Jeff Gross raised to 58,000 before tanking and folding to a shove of 257,000 from Eric Milas.
Hand #19: Dominik Nitsche raised on the button and the blinds quickly folded.
Hand #20: Nitsche raised to 48,000, and Rasmussen defended his big blind. Nitsche took the pot with a bet of 52,000 on the ![]()
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flop.
Hand #21: D'Alesandro raised to 52,000, and Milas shoved for 367,000 in the big blind. D'Alesandro called.
D'Alesandro: ![]()
Milas: ![]()
The flop came ![]()
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, giving Milas a straight draw but D'Alesandro a flush draw. The
turn increased Milas' outs, and his rail began yelling for a king. The
river filled D'Alesandro's flush though, and Milas busted out.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,300,000
580,000
|
580,000 |
|
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Eliminado |
Hand #8: Dave D'Alesandro raised to 52,000 and took the blinds.
Hand #9: Zach Gruneberg made it 50,000 and D'Alesandro defended his big blind with a call. The flop came ![]()
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and both players checked. The turn came the
and D'Alesandro led out for 65,000. Gruneberg made the call and both players checked the
river.
D'Alesandro turned over ![]()
and Gruneberg mucked.
Hand #10: Gruneberg made it 52,000 and picked up the blinds and antes.
Hand #11: Gruneberg got a walk.
Hand #12: Dominik Nitsche took the blinds and antes with a 48,000 button raise.
Hand #13: Gruneberg made it 50,000 and Thayer Rasmussen defended his big blind with a call. Rasmussen then led out for 75,000 on the ![]()
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flop and Gruneberg released his hand.
Hand #14: The action started with Bob Bounahra making it 55,000. Rasmussen responded by pushing all in for 770,000. Bounahra made the call for his tournament life with ![]()
and found he was ahead of Rasmussen's ![]()
.
The ![]()
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flop kept Bounahra ahead, but the
turn crushed him. With the crowd calling for a jack or a king, the river fell the
and Bounahra was embraced by Antonio Esfandiari on the rail, having hit a miracle river to double up and take the chip lead.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,510,000
487,000
|
487,000 |
|
|
1,240,000
584,000
|
584,000 |
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Nivel: 24
Ciegas: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
Hand #4: Thayer Rasmussen won the pot with a raise to 40,000 from early position.
Hand #5: Dave D'Alesandro opened to 45,000 in middle position and won the pot.
Hand #6: Bob Bounahra raised to 45,000 in early position and Rasmussen called. Rasmussen bet the turn with the board having come ![]()
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after both players checked the flop, and Rasmussen won the pot.
Hand #7: D'Alesandro opened to 45,000, and Billy Horan shoved. D'Alesandro called after everyone else folded.
D'Alesandro: ![]()
Horan: ![]()
It was red aces versus black aces, and D'Alesandro was the one to flop the freeroll when the dealer spread ![]()
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. The
turn intensified the sweat, and the river brought the
, completing D'Alesandro's flush and sending Horan out in brutal fashion.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
720,000
193,000
|
193,000 |
|
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Eliminado |
Hand #3: David Burt pushed all in for close to 165,000 over a Jeff Gross 48,000 open and Gross called instantly with ![]()
.
Burt had ![]()
and picked up a few outs after the ![]()
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flop. He quickly lost a few outs on the
turn and missed everything on the
river to leave in ninth place.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
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510,000
171,000
|
171,000 |
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Eliminado | |
Hand #1: Dominik Nitsche opened the action with a raise to 40,000. Bob Bounahra and Dave D'Alesandro called in the blinds.
Bounahra led out for 60,000 on the ![]()
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flop and only Nitsche called. Both players checked the
turn, but after Bounahra checked the
river, Nitsche bet 125,000. Bounahra called and mucked when Nitsche rolled over ![]()
.
Hand #2: Billy Horan took down the blinds with an under the gun raise to 51,000.
Fifteen minutes remain in Level 23, and the cards are in the air after a break to count the chips and fill out bio sheets.