By the time we arrived the dealer had already put out all five community cards. On the table were the following cards: | | . Antoine Saout, back in 2009 third in the WSOP Main Event for $3,479,670, had pushed 3,500 forward from middle position. That amount of chips was enough to put the ultimate pressure on Roberto Romanello who had to either call for his tournament life, or fold.
He gave it some thoughts and eventually made the call. Saout showed his immediately and Romanello mucked. The dealer turned his cards over though, because it was an all in showdown: . Romanello wished the entire table good luck, and made his way out of the door.
We caught a hand with Jennifer Tilly in the small blind against an opponent on the button.
Tilly bet out on a flop of , and her opponent called. On the turn came the , and Tilly checked. Her opponent bet 650, and Tilly re-raised to 1,500. Her opponent slowly mucked, and Tilly picked up the pot, bringing her stack up to around 8,000.
The Black section of the Pavilion Room is already almost cleared. Those 40 tables are now mostly empty and their players are distributed over all the other sections in play. The clock tells us we have 1,985 players registered, but there's still time for players to sign up for this $1,000 tournament so that's not the final number yet.
With | | on the table there was something going on at Dan Heimillers table. The river action was unknown but Heimiller was all in, that was for sure. The first opponent showed his cards: a mere for a missed gutshot but rivered pair of fours. Then another player opened his cards; . Last, but certainly not least, Dan Heimiller showed his cards: . That was a winner, and Heimiller grabbed the 6,000 in the pot.
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2012 $3,000 6-max bracelet winner Simon Charette just lost a big pot. We don't know exactly when the chips went in, but the flop seems like a viable possibility. | | on the table and in front of Simon Charette was for the missed gutshot straight flush draw. His opponent had for flopped top-two. Charette had to hand over 2,900 in chips, more than half his stack.
Pim de Goede made a final table back in 2011 where he finished fourth in a $1,500 event for $168,334. Earlier this series he finished eleventh in the $1,500 pot-limit tournament. Today he's here in the Pavilion Room to prove that he also knows his ways in a $1,000 event.
He was already off to a good start, and added some new chips just now in a pot we can only describe as a present. De Goede raised under the gun to 250 with pocket queens and saw the player on the button shove all in for 1,200. The small blind isolated by raising to 2,000 with 6,000 behind. Now the big blind made the cold call and the decision was back on De Goede. He pushed all in, having everybody involved covered. Both the small blind and the big blind folded and thus De Goede was heads up and already certain of winning the big side pot. He also claimed the main pot as his queens crushed the dreams of the button who had pushed with fives.