The 2014 World Series of Poker is well underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but that's not the only place you can get your WSOP fix. From June 1-15, grinders in Nevada will be able to participate in the WSOP.com Online Championship Series.
The 15-event WSOP.com Online Championship Series festival features more than $550,000 in combined guarantees, and the winners of the first 14 events will all receive an entry into the $200,000 guarantee WSOP Online Championship Main Event on June 15.
There's still a full week of events left on the schedule, beginning with tonight's $55 No-Limit Hold'em Rebuy & Add On at 7 p.m. The event features a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and less than 40 players are registered, so don't miss out!
"Wow! That is sick!" was the cry from one of the players on table Blue #11 so we naturally hurried over to see what the commotion was about.
When we arrived at the table, the first thing we saw was William Burford stood away from the table with a look of pure disgust on his face. Upon further investigation we discovered Burford was all-in with pocket kings against a pair of tens for Ireland's Sean Prendiville only for the latter to flop quads!
Burford busted a couple of players short of the money having finished ninth in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event a couple of day ago.
Four-way all-in pots seem to be the norm inside the Brasilia room today. Another one has just occurred. This time, Olivier Busquet was a casualty and John Holsonback was the beneficiary. All the chips were in the middle preflop and cards were on their backs.
Holsonback:
Busquet:
Button:
Small Blind:
The dealer fanned a board reading , Holsonback had binked the one card to give him the scoop and all the chips were pushed his way.
British professional poker player Sebastian Saffari came agonisingly close to winning a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2013 when he lost heads up to Brandon Wong in Event #50: $2,500 10 Game Mix. He's now looking to make amends for that near miss here in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo where he currently sits behind chips worth 31,500.
Saffari is used to quick structures as he is an online grinder, an online grinder with over $3.3 million in tournament winnings.
Ronnie Bardah opened the preflop betting round with an all-in bet of 9,500 from late position. Brandon Meyers re-raised from the cutoff and the other active players ducked out of the way, leaving Meyers and Bardah's hands to be revealed.
Meyers:
Bardah:
"Seven of diamonds," said Bardah to the dealer, but he didn't oblige as the flop came down . The turn was the and Bardah asked for a club as it would have resulted in a split pot. Again, Bardah's pleas fell on deaf ears and the completed the board.
Bardah busted and Meyers is up to 39,600.
Niall Farrell was on the same table earlier, but his seat is now empty and it is presumed Farrell busted out recently.
Former November Niner Joseph Cheong has busted from the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo.
Cheong informed his 22,400 Twitter followers that he registered late for the tournament and ran up a stack of 20 big blinds at the start of the current level, but lost a flip to bust short of the money places.
We're down to 216 players - 45 away from the money. At this pace we will definitely make the money before the dinner break, which is at the end of Level 13. A few chip counts from around the room:
Matt Glantz looks to be our new chip leader following a massive coinflip that he says he almost wasn't a part of.
A raise to 1,700 was three-bet to 3,500 by Glantz who was then facing an all-in four-bet of around 32,000. Glantz said he almost folded, but eventually called, showing as he did so. Glantz's "Big Slick" was up against his opponent's .
The flop kept the lowly pocket threes ahead and Glantz faced the prospect of losing the vast majority of his stack. The on the turn gave Glantz more outs because he could now hit an ace, king, nine, six or heart to win the hand. One of those outs, the landed on the river to counterfeit the pocket threes and leave Glantz with a huge stack of 70,000.
, Holsonback had binked the one card to give him the scoop and all the chips were pushed his way.
and Bardah asked for a club as it would have resulted in a split pot. Again, Bardah's pleas fell on deaf ears and the 
completed the board.
as he did so. Glantz's "Big Slick" was up against his opponent's 
.
landed on the river to counterfeit the pocket threes and leave Glantz with a huge stack of 70,000.
