1.25pm: Level over, break timePlayers are taking a 15-minute break on the end of level four.1.24pm: Watch out what you would like for
Adriano Pucci was faced with Richard Lyndaker's all-in -- it will cost him 9,375 more to name. Pucci lifted up his sunglasses and stared at his chips, then at Lyndaker, then back at his chips. They fell go into reverse as he checked out Lyndaker again.
"You desire a call?" asked Pucci.
Lyndaker sighed and was in the midst of saying "I DO NOT care," when Pucci jumped up, announced the decision and threw 10,000 into the pot. He also showed 9♠9♣, Lyndaker tabled T♣T♠ and Pucci groaned.
"I even got your suits covered," said Lyndaker.
"That's O.K., a nine is all I need," replied Pucci.
The board came A♦2♠J♣6♠, and a 8♦ at the river brought brief gasps from the table before they realized it wasn't a nine.
"Wow, don't do this to me again," Lyndaker told the dealer.
Nick Mitchell checked out him and laughed, "What, come up with a double up?" --AV
1.21pm: Late to arrive, early to leavePat White, who arrived into level three, have been eliminated before the top of level four. David Hilton got him. -- HS
1.20pm: Tournament housekeepingAs the primary Event took a break, Joe Gibbons swung by to test on his friend Adriano Pucci. He's doing just fine, Joe.
Joe Gibbons checks in on Adriano Pucci (back to camera)The tournament staff also made a statement to the Bounty Shootout area: winners of the 3 eight-handed tables gets $36,000 each, and the winner of the nine-handed table gets $40,000. -- HS
1.15pm: Berg busts PengIt's not a fair day to be called Vanessa, as Ms Peng has just followed Ms Rousso out the door. Jonathan Duhamel started it, but Elijah Berg finished it, leaving the "Spades" table all the way down to six.
Duhamel opened with a normal raise and it was folded to Peng at the button. She moved all in, after which Berg also moved all in from the small blind. Duhamel had the danger to eliminate either one of them, but thought best of it and folded. That left just Peng and Berg, and Peng was in trouble.
Peng: K♣Q♠Berg: A♠K♦
The board ran blank and the ace high was decisive. Peng departs. -- HS
LEVEL UP. BLINDS 400-800-100 IN LEVEL 4
12.55pm: Survival of the fittestNicholas Petrangelo won't survive to peer level 4.
In the last hand of level 3, Scott Blackman raised to 1,500 and was met with a 4,200 re-raise by Petrangelo. Blackman put his remaining stack of blue chips within the pot and announced all-in. Petrangelo called, putting his tournament life in danger.
Blackman tabled J♠J♥ and was flipping against Petrangelo's A♥Q♣.
The board came 6♠6♥9♣9♠2♠ and Petrangelo was eliminated. Blackman now has over 60,000 and is the chip leader at his table.
Around the similar time, two tables away, Blake Purvis eliminated Lawrence Greenberg. --AV
12.50pm: Williams wastedThe feature table has lost another player - and arguably its main attraction. David Williams has now hit the rail, unable to hit his straight flush draw and losing to Paul Matteo's full house.
All the cash went in on a board of 3♠J♦2♣. Williams had 14,150 and A♣5♣. Matteo had him covered in chips and had J♠T♦ in his hand. The J♥ at the turn only helped Matteo, and the T♠ made his hand even better.
David Williams out of the Bounty ShootoutWilliams departs. -- HS
12.45pm: White inPat White, a late registrant, has arrived and paid his $10,000 for a seat at Eugene Katchalov's table. That one is now playing nine handed. -- HS
LEVEL UP. BLINDS 300-600-75 IN LEVEL 3
12.28pm: Pilgrim's bounty Dwyte Pilgrim has just earned his first bounty, a sparkly oversized chip with a PokerStars logo and Eric Wasserson's face.
Pilgrim and Wasserson went all-in in a fierce pre-flop battle. Wasserson, with 33,825, was in peril together with his K♥K♣. His risk was even greater when Pilgrim showed pocket aces.
A happy Dwight PilgrimThe board brought no kings to rescue Wasserson and his bounty was claimed. --AV
12.25pm: Rousso put out of her miseryThis have been a tournament to forget for Vanessa Rousso, who has just become the primary player eliminated from Flight A. It was another massive confrontation at the feature table, a 3 way all in featuring these hands:
Rousso: 6♦6♥Eric Wasserson: 5♦5♠Michael Pesek: K♣K♠
Pesek had either one of his adversaries well covered in chips - Rousso's all in was for 2,150, Wasserson's 14,250 more - and in addition had the largest pair. However the flop of 5♥9♦J♦ vaulted Wasserson into the lead, where he stayed in the course of the 7♥3♣ turn and river.
Vanessa Rousso eliminatedRosso departs, Wasserson triples and picks up the Rousso bounty as well. -- HS
12.23pm: Safety firstMichael Pesek was short-stacked with A♠K♥ and he decided to move all-in. Team PokerStars Pro David Williams decided to name with A♦Q♦.
The flop came 6♣4♥Q♣, giving Williams the lead, but he knew how cruel poker can also be.
"One more for safety," said Williams. "Queen of hearts, let's go!"
The turn didn't heed to Williams' request and taken a K♦.
"I knew it," Williams sighed.
The river was a 2♠, giving Pesek the double up. "Good hand," said Williams. --AV
12.20pm: Always bet on Black(man)"I'll be within the Borgata every weekend," said Scott Blackman as he raked in his freshly won double up. "And I'll get it in as a three-to-one dog up to I can."
Although most statisticians wouldn't recommend this strategy, it worked out for Blackman on this particular hand.
Blackman was all-in preflop against Nick Mitchell. Blackman's A♦Q♥ was up against Mitchell's A♠K♣ and Blackman was, indeed, an underdog.
The flop was 7♦6♦3♣, reducing Blackman's odds much more. But a Q♠ at the turn would put Blackman within the lead, and a 6♥ at the river would keep him there.
Blackman doubled as much as 45,000 while Mitchell is now across the 15,000 mark. --AV
12.15pm: Small pot straightens right into a larger oneElijah Berg has added some more to his good-sized stack, rivering broadway to overcome Paul Volpe. Berg opened pre-flop, making it 1,000. Volpe called from the massive blind they usually went to a 2♠T♥2♣ flop. They both checked.
They also both checked the turn of K♦ but if the J♣ rivered, the chips started moving. Volpe bet 2,850, Berg raised to 6,550 and Volpe called.
Berg tabled A♥Q♦ and Volpe mucked when he saw the large straight. --HS
12.10pm: Conley doubles, Rousso again plays the bankJustin Conley has now got his short stack all in pre-flop at the feature table and again Vanessa Rousso took him in this. time Rousso had A♦K♦ but she was behind again - Conley had Q♦Q♥. The Q♣ was one of the vital flop cards and Rousso couldn't catch a miracle.
The Team PokerStars Pro is now very, very short. -- HS
12.05pm: Pilgrim doublesOn the television table, Dwight Pilgrim had somehow found himself short stacked and got all of it in, under-calling a Vanessa Rousso shove. He was ahead with A♦K♠ to Rousso's A♠Q♣ and stayed that way through a blank board.
As mentioned, it is a little tricky to peer the various subtleties happening over there at the television set, but I'm guessing that Rousso must now be a relative short stack after that skirmish. -- HS
12.00pm: Berg's kingsElijah Berg and Blake Purvis found themselves in a multi-thousand chip pot.
The board read 9♦Q♣K♣ and Berg, from the small blind, check-called Purvis' 2,000 bet. The turn brought a heartier king, K♥, and a heartier bet, 3,300, from Berg. Purvis called and a 6♠ came at the river. Berg led out again with a 5,000 blue chip.
Purvis called and Berg showed A♦K♦, good for trip kings and the pot. Berg is now over the 40,000 mark while Purvis' stack dwindled to 12,025. -- AV
LEVEL UP. BLINDS 200-400-50 IN LEVEL TWO
11.55am: Paging one world championThere are still a few empty seats here, with stacks being blinded away. Those players have registered but were clearly frightened out in their wits by the 11am start and haven't yet showed. Considered one of them was Jonathan Duhamel, whose seat at the spades table remained empty for the primary 45 minutes. But someone has now located the sector Champion, and he has arrived. -- HS
11.50am: Joey boy!Adriano Pucci was railing his friend Joe Gibbons the entire technique to the general three tables of the primary Event, but has today taken his own seat within the $10,000 Bounty Shootout. He's started well, too, and has just taken a superb early pot from Richard Lindaker.
In the cut-off, Lindaker raised to 500, and Pucci called from the button. It was just the 2 of them to a flop of 8♦J♠7♦. Lindaker bet 700, Pucci called, and the 4♣ turned.
Lindaker bet 1,800 at that, which Pucci also called, and the pattern repeated at the river of Q♦. Lindaker bet 3,500 and Pucci called. Lindaker showed his 8♥4♥ but Pucci were ahead in any respect stages together with his Q♣J♦.
Adriano Pucci"Joey boy!" Pucci said with a grin directed to Gibbons, who's repeating the favour and railing Pucci within the hour before he returns to Main Event competition. -- HS
11.35am: Featured tableThe Team PokerStars Pro duo of Vanessa Rousso and David Williams were the most obvious choice for the feature table. That's excellent news for television viewers later within the year, but less so for us live bloggers; we will be able to barely see the action at the TV set. I WILL hear Rousso doing a large number of raising - there is a man with a microphone calling the action - but it will be a bit of tough to peer exactly what is going on. -- HS
11.30am: Early actionWith the 25 ante and 100-200 blinds, play is already pretty hasty. At the "hearts" table, Nick Mitchell bet 850 at a flop of A♥T♥3♠, which Scott Seiver called. The 2♣ turned and Mitchell checked, prompting of venture of 1,200 from Seiver. Mitchell responded with a raise to 3,500 and Seiver let it go. -- HS
11.25am: Play is under wayWe're playing blinds of 100-200 with a 25 ante in level one. The starting stack is 25,000.
Morning all, and welcome back to NAPT Mohegan Sun for the beginning of the $10,000 Bounty Shootout. This event has become a typical and popular fixture at the North American Poker Tour - and at the television screens of millions of households worldwide.
It's a format that lends itself wonderfully to television. On day one, we play eight sit-and-goes and the winner of every goes through to Thursday's final.
Essentially it is a winner-take-all prize structure, with the added complication/excitement of a "bounty" chip.
To explain: on the very start of the day, each player may be given a large chip with an image in their face on it, that is their bounty. When that player is eliminated, they give up the bounty chip to their assassin, and the sniper earns $2,000.
The winner of probably the most bounties can even win a seat on the next NAPT Bounty Shootout event.
Here's how they line up for the primary flight today:
Hearts 1 Richard Lindaker2 Adriano Pucci3 Scott Blackman4 Nick Mitchell5 Scott Seiver6 Nicholas Petrangelo7 Dan O'Brien8 Matt Glantz
Clubs 1 Curt Kohlberg2 Eugene Katchalov3 Robert Dalton4 Steven Kelly5 David Hilton6 Chau Giang7 Nick Schulman8 Michael DeGilio
Spades 1 Jonathan Duhamel2 Melanie Weisner3 Paul Volpe4 Jimmie Guinther5 Vanessa Peng6 Elijah Berg7 Blake Purvis8 Lawrence Greenberg
Diamonds 1 Paul Matteo2 Vanessa Rousso3 Eracles Panayiotou4 David Williams5 Eric Wasserson6 Michael Pesek7 Dwyte Pilgrim8 Justin Conley
Play was as a result of start at 11am, but as I write this there are still more members of television crew than there are players in front of me and it's already 11.10am. -- HS
Reporting team: Howard Swains and Alex Villegas. Photography: Joe Giron.
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