12:32 pm
Players are now on a 30 minute lunch break. TD Lionel has told the media staff that the official number is 131 players registered for today’s event. Eighty-one (81) players remain. Who will make the Top 16 to make some money? Who will make the Top 8 for wildcard seats into the Season 30 Championship?
12:28 pm
As we ending the level for lunch, here are some of the top chip counts from the room… Mark Brennan 135000 Zach Curro 100000 Sonya Dasilva 70000 Steven Affence 70000 Bill Haley 50000 Nancy St. Laurent 36000
12:08 pm
Blinds – 1000/2000 As we start this level, we are now at 100 players. Dinner break will within 1-2 levels and the players are hungry
11:34 am
Blinds – 600/1200 A player UTG goes all in with 2600, only to get called by one player in middle position. Patrick, on the button, senses weakness jams putting player #2 at risk. After a minute, the player mucks showing pocket eights. Patrick flips over pocket jacks. The board ran clean and Patrick eliminates one. […]
11:06 am
Blinds – 300/600 January’s Player of the Month winner, Rich Maloney was just spotting wheeling away after he was eliminated for today’s event. So we will have a new Monthly Champion tonight.
11:04 am
Blinds – 300/600 Looking around the room, not many big stacks are forming…yet. One stack, which is at this time this biggest is Thomas Droewski (North Shore) with 60,000
10:53 am
Blinds – 300/600 With the beautiful weather outside, right now we have 130 players so far and 3 levels left to register. Who wants to win some money?
10:40 am
Blinds – 200/400 Lowell’s Mark Brennan makes a quick snap call on the turn with Q♥ K♦ versus a players top 2 top pair of tens and jacks. An ace falls on the river to give Brennan a straight and now has 28,000 in chips
10:28 am
Blinds – 100/200 As the level comes to a close, Anthony wants to let everyone know that he is “punting away’ his chips so he can play cash! “I can’t catch a hand”.
10:14 am
Blinds – 100/200 After a short speech from Glenn, we are underway in the February $10,000 Monthly Championship. With “Late registration” underway, players have until the end of Level 6 to come.