Dinner Break
Jun 06, '07
Players in the $2,000 No-Limit have just gone on dinner break with twenty six minutes remaining in Level 7. There are roughly 330 players remaining in this event and play will resume at 9:00p.m.
While some players spent the first half of Level 7 protecting their short-stacks, others spent their time racing for chips. J.C. Tran raises $1,500 from the small blind and makes a caller out of Seat-4. The flop comes A
K2
, and Tran moves all-in for $3,200. Seat-4 calls and flips over 9
9 while Tran shows A7. The turn and river bring the 10 and the 8
as Tran rakes the pot and doubles up yet once again.
Davood Mehrmand wasn’t as lucky when he shoved all-in right before the dinner break. The player in the cutoff position raises $2,000 when Mehrmand comes over the top and pushes all-in for $8,050 more. The cutoff calls and shows AQ Mehrmand flips over the K. He tells his opponent, “I saw this one, now let’s see the other one.”, as he flips over the 4. The board comes A835J, and Mehrmand is eliminated.
Chantel McNulty was also eliminated right before the dinner break. She found herself all-in with A-5 in a three-handed pot. Unfortunately for McNulty she was up against A-A and 10-10.
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Player Tags: J.C. Tran, Davood Mehrmand, Chantel McNulty
Drama on Table 225
Jun 06, '07
Official numbers have not been released yet, but the field is gigantic. More than half of the entire Amazon Room is dedicated to Event 10, and the spill-over has filled the entire Players Pavilion tent outside.
Inside the Pavilion tent one will find a staggering number of pros, many of whom are sharing the same table. Table 108 plays host to Darrell Dicken, Tracey “XTraCey” Nguyen, and Card Player’s own strategy columnist, Todd Arnold. Arnold seems to have a good handle on things as he is now patiently sitting in front of roughly $12,000 in chips, three times the starting amount. Some of that surplus came from one hand in particular when Nguyen limps in a pot followed by Darrell Dicken and Arnold raises $450. The button re-raises to $1,300 and the field folds back to Arnold. Todd moves all-in with kings against his opponent’s queens and his hand holds up on a 10-10-9 flop.
There was some serious drama on Table 225 when Chantel McNulty makes a pre-flop raise and one of the short-stacks moves over the top and all-in. McNulty was put to a decision and she jokingly asked the table, “Should I be good or bad?” The player in Seat 10, not involved in the hand, tells her to gamble and she does. Chantel calls and the flips over J-10 suited while her opponent shows pocket sixes. The board comes K-K-5-9-10 and McNulty spikes a 10 on the river giving her the pot. Her opponent was eliminated from the tournament, but he wasn’t quite done giving bad beats, so the scorned gambler calls the floor man over. He makes a big stink about the player in Seat 10 voicing his opinion as to whether or not Chantel should have made the call, and the floor man reprimands Seat 10 and sends him to the rail for a full round’s worth of punishment. McNulty argued that she was going to call anyway and the other player’s opinion weighed no judgment in her decision, but joking or not, rules are rules, and the player who spoke was forced to miss the next ten hands.
Level 2 also saw a lot of eliminations including Brandon Cantu, Isaac Haxton, Name Le, and the now formerly defending champion, Mark Vos.
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Player Tags: Nam Le, Todd Arnold, Darrell Dicken, Chantel McNulty, Mark Vos, Brandon Cantu, Isaac Haxton, Tracey Nguyen
