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Bellagio Cup, WSOP notables, and Bill Edler on bodybuilding competitions.
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Bill Edler was all-in preflop with 109 versus the AK of Willy Tran for 1.9m. An A fell on the turn, and "The Stunning One" was eliminated in 23rd place.
He earned $333,490.
Four players have already passed the 10m mark. The average chip stack at the final table will be 14m.
As I've mentioned, it's been tough distinguishing one denomination of chip from another. You can click on Heather's photo to zoom in (remember the subdued lighting in the room makes it tougher too):
In the stack on the far right:
- the neon orange chips on the right are 5k
- the pale orange chips in the middle are 25k
- the pinkish orangish chips on the left are 50k
Here are the players who seem to have over 10m:
William Spadea - 11m
Lee Childs - 11m
Philip Hilm - 10m
Ray Henson - 10m
Notables:
Scotty Nguyen - 4.2m
Bill Edler - 3.2m (pictured here asking a Phil Hellmuth bobblehead for advice)
Lee Watkinson - 3m
Daniel Alaei - 1.5m
Alex Kravchenko - 1m
I'm mad at "Lead Tournament Reporter" Jeremiah Smith. I wanted to call the new roped off area the "media moat." Unfortunately, Jeremiah's much more industrious than me, and he already made the joke in a previous post. Although, I can add that the "moat" works two-fold. It not only pisses people off (as Jeremiah mentioned earlier), but it also forces annoying railbirds to shout even louder so that they can be heard by the pros they are pestering. Awesome.
In other news, someone decided it would be a good idea to make all the chips in play at this point in the tournament the same color - orange. Basically the denominations break down as follows: orange, slightly darker orange, and slightly lighter orange. It's a little disorienting. The people doing chip counts look more confused than the cops chasing Pierce Brosnan at the end of The Thomas Crown Affair.
More from the post-dinner break level:
* Kenny Tran - Took a bad when an opponent doubled up through him with a flopped set of sevens against pocket aces. Still with a healthy stack, Tran walked over to the rail and said to a friend, "that would have put me over $7 million. If I had won that pot nobody at my table would have any chips." Not only did Kenny rebound and build back up to around were he was before the beat, but also, in my opinion, showed the kind of confidence necessary to win this thing.
* Bill Edler - "The Stunning One" doubled up to over $3 million when his pocket tens held to an opponent's A-K. If you listen to our radio show, you know G. Smith's pulling big time for Bill, and if Gavin could have it his way, Bill would be on PokerWire Radio more times than Alec Baldwin's hosted SNL. Which reminds me...Bill Edler will be our guest on Monday's show.
* Lee Watkinson - Because of Lee's playing style, and the fact that he entered the post-dinner break level near the top of the leader board, the general consensus seemed to be that he'd have to run into one or two medium-to-serious coolers to not reach the final table (aka he's no maniac). Well, minutes after talking about this with ESPN columnist, Gary WIse, I watched Watkinson lose a decent chunk of his stack to Rep Porter. Lee had a set, Porter doubled up with a flush. Stay tuned (remember, because he qualified online, Lee would receive $10,000,000 from Full Tilt were he to win the main event).
A pair of interesting prospects:
* Maria Ho - Alive, and kind of well. In the summer-of-bashing-the-female-poker-player, imagine if she won the big one...
* Scotty Nguyen - Alive and quite well. In the age of the never-again-see-a-two-time-champion, imagine if he won...
Huckleberry Seed was just eliminated. After being moved to the ESPN feature table, Huck ran into AK when trying to steal from the button with 87. He flopped a gutshot, but a pair K's ended up sending him to the rail.
In the meantime, Scotty Nguyen (the lone main event champ remaining) seems right at home in the shortened field. He has chipped up to over 3m today which has kept him in the top 10. Scotty has been all over the tournament floor today with plenty of "Hey, baaaby!"'s to go around. He's shown bluffs, made big resteals, and generally been in control of his table all afternoon.
Two other players who bear watching are Bill Edler and Ray Henson (pictured). Each player has been climbing the leaderboard today. Edler entered the day at 600k and has added 1m to his stack, while Henson has gone from 1.1m to 2m. Edler and Henson are both at the featured table.
For every unknown player at the top of the leaderboard yesterday, there’s at least one pro in that spot today. I only recognized a handful of players as Day 2A wound to a close last night; today I can’t turn around without bumping into a JC Tran (203k), Chad Brown (197k), Carl Olson (280k), Carlos Mortensen (195k), Chip Jett (210k), Ted Forrest (174k).
And don’t forget The Stunning One with 225k. That's him in the picture after winning one of those fancy bracelets that are all the rage these days.
Kyle Wilson has been playing well today despite taking a couple coolers. He managed to lay down KK face up on a board reading Q10XX—his opponent did in fact have QQ. Kyle only lost 20k on the hand. A few hands later the ESPN cameras rushed to his table when a player in late position raised and he called in the cutoff. Humberto Brenes then reraised, the initial raiser shoved, and Kyle came over the top all in.
Humberto showed his A
K before tossing in the muck. Kyle’s opponent had 10
10 but Wilson had him crushed with AA
. Both players flopped a set, but the ending board read five hearts, and they ended up chopping the 220k pot. He's hanging around the 150k mark.
Then there’s the schlubs like Daniel Negreanu who can only manage 145k. Daniel Alaei, Darrell Dicken, and even Chris Moneymaker are all hanging around that range as well. It looks like the pros waited until Days 1C & 1D to turn out en force, and they are clearly making their presence felt on Day 2B.
Event #45 $5k Short Handed tourney has just ended. Bill Edler defeated Alex Bolotin to win the bracelet and $904,672. The final table payouts were:
Congrats to Bill on his first bracelet, he's a great guy and very well thought of by everyone on this site.
Entering the day as the shortstack, "Bedler" moved all in on four consecutive hands. This gave him enough chips to do some manuevering, and now "Wild Bill" finds himself in the chip lead. "The Stunning One" has been punishing Alex Bolotin and especially Erik Friberg since play became three handed.
Bill Edler - 3.2m
Alex Bolotin - 2.6m
Erik Friberg - 1.4m
There's few players on the circuit who are more respected than Bill; Erick Lindgren and Gavin Smith are actually in the sequestered tent supporting him. Bill just missed the TV final table at the LAPC earlier this year, and finished in 6th place at the Shooting Star in San Jose.
Earlier I mentioned that Bill Edler was a player to watch in the $5K six-handed event. At the time, Bill was sitting in the middle of the pack. The players just went on dinner break, and Bill had moved up to second place sitting on 600k with 22 players remaining.
The chip leaders:
Steve Brecher
Steve Brecher, on Day 3 of the Legends of Poker at the Bike in Los Angeles, CA.
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