On third street Kenney completed and Owais Ahmed called. On fourth street Kenney bet and Ahmed called. Kenney would bet again on fifth street, and Ahmed raised.
"How do I get raised on this board," Kenney said with a smile before he mucked his cards. Ahmed took down the pot, and for now, that will stop the bleeding. Earlier today, Ahmed tweeted about losing a lot of chips during this level.
We just spotted recent bracelet winner Rob Mizrachi, three time finalist at this year's WSOP Bill Chen and Jason Mercier, who recently won $1.6 million in the $100k at the Bellagio.
On fourth street we picked up the action when Cory Zeidman, Freddie Ellis and Steve Billirakis checked to Brian Hastings who said, "Let's build a pot," as he tossed in a bet. All three of his opponents called and the action went to fourth street.
Zeidman paired up on fifth and lead out and Ellis called with his dangerous looking board. Bilirakis folded and Hastings sighed, but he also tossed in 1,000.
On sixth street Zeidman bet again and Ellis and Hastings called. Seventh street was dealt face down and all three players checked.
After seventh was checked Zeidman announced he had two pair and showed for aces and nines. Zeidman took down this pot and he's now back to around the starting stack.
Last year's $50,000 Players Championship winner, Matthew Ashton, just checked a hand down with Juha Helppi. Ashton's hand was strong, but Helppi's board worried the Brit a little too much.
From fifth street on the hand was checked down on the following boards.
Helppi: / /
Ashton: / /
When seventh street was checked Ashton announced he had two pair and turned over .
Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald joins Nate and Andrew on the Thinking Poker Podcast to talk about growing up in Alaska, struggling with drugs, coming up in poker, and making and disseminating training material.
We're up to 64 players in today's event and slowly but surely, more players are taking their seats. The last time this event had a $10,000 buy-in in 2011, there were 126 entrants.
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--fold
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--fold
for aces and nines. Zeidman took down this pot and he's now back to around the starting stack.
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