Thursday, January 20, 2011

Event 1: New Chip Leader

$500 + $60 Deep Stack NL (2 Re-entry)   

Another level of frenetic play has ended.

Leonard Sande (New Haven, CT) doubled through Joshua Supsak.  Leonard chipped up to ~1.9 million while Joshua dropped to about 600k.

Marcello Delmonaco (New Haven, CT) doubled through Aaron Smith when his pocket Kings held up against Aaron's flush draw.

Sean Lee

Matt Gambino (bb) got all in holding KQ against the pocket Aces of Sean Lee (button).  The board brought no salvation and Matt (W Babylon, NY) was busted in 30th place ($2,713).

Matt Gambino

Nick Hojnoski (Corning, NY) got his last chips in with QJ against the dominating AQ of Leonardo Palermo (Ortley Beach, NJ).  The board came A T 8 7 2 and Nick was busted in 29th place ($2,713).

Nick Hojnoski

28 players remain.  They took a break while the 1k chips were colored up.

Sean Lee (Albertson, NY)  is up to 3.6 million and is the new chip leader.   Steven Macchia has dropped down to ~3.2 million.  Ryan Wood is third with 2.15 million.  Joshua Lawson is fourth with 2.1 million.

Play resumed with blinds of 30k/60k and 5k antes.