12:40 pm
Blinds Up And We Lose Another Table!
Blinds – 1500/3000 As our computer clock says “Blinds Up”, we are breaking another table. We are now currently down to nine tables.
Blinds – 1500/3000 As our computer clock says “Blinds Up”, we are breaking another table. We are now currently down to nine tables.
Blinds – 1000/2000 Pretty soon it will be lunch time (2 levels), but in the meantime, we have four players over 100,000 in chips: Tim Smith 115,000 Rafael Alvarez 100,000 Earl Matin 100,000 Victoria Torres 100,000
Blinds – 800/1600 With about half of the level gone, we are now down to twelve (12) tables. We still have a few more levels before we stop for lunch!
As the blinds go up to 800/1600, it was time to post some chips counts. Jhonny Ortiz 90,000 Billy Lynn 88,000 Nick Sims 86,000 Brandon Holt 80,000 Rich Stepanian 50,000 Wayne Mulligan 68,000
Blinds – 600/1200 From being “under the gun”, Nick makes a raise of 3K (30K+ behind). A player shoves all in for 7500. Nick asks for a count and says “Call”. The players shows pocket Nines while Nick shows King/Queen off-suit. The nines were leading all the way until the river comes and a Queen […]
Blinds – 500/1000 We see Johnny Kelly and Nick Sims in the field today. Coming fresh off of their 3rd and 4th places respectfully from the BPO East Coast Championship – Florida. Both are holding well, so far.
Blinds are now 500/1000.
Blinds – 400/800 Jake approaches our blogger and asks, “Has anyone ever won this back to back”?. I said “No”. “Ahh, ok. Just wanted everyone to know that I late regged and have not won a hand” Jake….it’s a marathon….not a sprint!
Blinds – 400/800 As we walk the room, we see Slade Edmonds and Tony Copper sitting at the Final Table of the Season 30/31 back in April. Will they face off again next Spring?
Blinds – 400/800 A handful of players have already hit the rail and there is a list to into the tournament. No one person has a big stack to show around. Fifteen table in play with 170 players (or so) in.