Event 2 (Day 1)
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Level 18 (complete): Limits 8000/16,000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 17
Average: 125,000
Bob Camano has finished on top of our $300+40 O8/Stud8 Day 1.
Quiet and effective all day, Camano has 297,000.
Ronald Winkelvoss is right behind, with 265,000.
Lonnie Heimowitz was very steady as well, with 273,000.
Joseph Ro finished with 147,000.
Chip leader up until the final levels, Baruch Krieger has 194,000.
Complete chip counts and seating for the continuing players will be posted as soon as available.
Our Stud8/O8 tournament resumes play at 12 noon,
See you then!
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End of Level 17: Limits 6000/12,000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 20
Average: 107,000
We are approaching the end of the night’s split pot games.
Jay Quintana takes a monster scoop from two players. He’s over 130,000.
On 
, Quintana turned over the nut low and the best high, top two, for a key pot before the break. He pipped the second nut low, holding the magic 
over 
We’ll color up and play one more level.
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Level 17: Limits 6000/12,000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 23
Average: 101,000
A deep run for early leader Ray Jamison just ended.
On a low board in O8, Baruch Krieger and Jamison reraised until Ray was all in.
Ray turned over 
, but the low cards filled in Krieger’s wheel draw.
Krieger, clearly determined to win, pounded the table avidly.
Jamison rises to leave, Krieger, right, rises in chips.
Baruch, whose stack had dipped a bit from its peak, is now back in charge with over 150,000.
We’re down to three tables.
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Level 16: Limits 5000/10,000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 28
Average: 76,000
On table 72, Patricia Yannuzzi, with plenty of chips in the early levels, had dwindled well below average when she got her money in good with top trips three way on the turn in Omaha8.
Unfortunately for her, there’s a river card in O8.
Patricia doesn’t want to believe it and leans over to see the Taxman’s declared straight.
Poised for a triple and a breather, Jeff “Taxman” Moses binked a middle straight on the paired board while dodging a full house.
Moses reaps his reward, briefly up to 80,000 and looking comfortable for the day.
Unfortunately, nothing aside from death is as certain as more taxes, they say. Within an orbit, Jeff had been given an invoice at showdown and was compelled to redistribute a third of his stack.
He’s still kicking at around 50,000 as we hit four tables of players.
The Cat’s his trademark howl is still heard occasionally, now from table 73. Here, center, he paws some hole cards while Finberg, left, looks placidly on.
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Level 15: Limits 4000/8000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 37
Average: 57,000
Bob Camano on busy table 71 has joined the chip leaders.
Already a rising stack, he busted a shortie by turning over a deuce on seventh, completing an open ended straight and low draw in Stud8.
Camano pitches a weak holding the next hand. He has 125,000 now.
Two hands later, it was Tim Philip’s time to go. Again with Kings, but this time in o8, Monty Dennis outflopped him, making a set of fours.
Dennis just called on the flop, allowing Philip to continue on the turn.
Dennis, background, observes his middle set before the turn is dealt. Philip, in red, will need help on the turn or river.
No two outer for his high oriented holding, and it was a needed pot for Monty instead, who gets back to average stacked.
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End of Level 13: Limits 2000/4000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 59
Average: 38,000
Baruch Krieger on table 70 has cracked the first milestone, with over 110,000.
Lonnie Heimowitz has had a strong stack throughout, peaking around 85,000.
However, Justin Finberg has just moved to Lonnie’s table. Finberg is around 100,000 after taking from Heimowitz in a blind on blind encounter between the two large stacks.
In O8, with Justin taking the big, Lonnie completed the small while Finberg checked his option.
Lonnie led an unfriendly board, the 
, likely hinting at a pair and some backdoor possibilities. Finberg called.
Justin Finberg, now on 73. Chris Reslock is there as well, now getting short. Justin is coming off a string of split pot Borgata final tables.
Turn 
, bringing in the low draw Lonnie might want. However, without the raise pre, it was likely Heimowitz’ draw was not nutted. He now check-called Finberg, and then again on the 
.
Finberg turned over 
for the flopped second nuts.
We take a break.
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End of Level 12: Limits 1500/3000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 69
Average: 31,000
Stefan Bowles, red all-in button, awaits the runout. Tim Philip checks his cards and contemplates the seventh street action in a four-way pot.
Meanwhile, back on 71, where Dorsey has joined Jim A. and his Pineapple game, Stefan Bowles was all in by 5th street and had to depend on the dealer.
Saved. Philip holds his hole cards in disappointment at his runout. Erik Schimdt, foreground, ends up with the side.
At that point, Schmidt was all in as well, for the side pot. His middle rundown possibilities ended with two pair, still beating Philip’s kings.
Bowles, however, had found the perfect card, a 
, giving him the wheel to scoop the main pot. Both all-ins survive.
In the next hand, a bit of trouble.
Floormen Jamie and Kevin resolve a sticky situation. Albert Dorsey, who won the big pot before dinner, is at left.
Jim A. on Dorsey’s right, is over 75,000, which is one of the big stacks. Dorsey was forced to fold a pair of tens on the river in Bowles’ scoop, leaving him with more earth-bound 25,000.
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Level 11: Limits 1200/2400
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 83
Average: 25,000
As level 10 finished and the first dozen were eliminated post-reg, at least one survived on Ray Jamison’s table.
First, Nathan Vascones showed down a live 6 to get a chop with a pair of kings.
Then, Larry Gold rode a spade runout to the river, picking on the lead on sixth with the 
, then getting a fold on the river against Vascones.
In the next hand, it was Jamison’s turn to take on Gold. The action when bet call on fourth with Jamison showing 
, but when the next street gave Gold a promising low rundown, Ray relented to Larry’s pressure.
Jamison and Gold on fourth street.
Larry laughed and showed 
in the hole for the nut straight and a low – he had wanted more action.
Cohen with the all-in button out. Candace Vrrastro will put in the call as well.
On the first hand of O8, Bruce Cohen in seat 8 was at risk. He led the river on 
. Called in two places reluctantly, Cohen declared he had it – 
were his best cards.
Big river card for Bruce, and alive again.
The nuts gave Cohen nearly 20,000 and tournament life.
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Level 10: Limits 1000/2000
Entrants: 107
Remaining: 106
Average: 20,188
We’re back in action.
Ray Jamison on 74 is right behind chip leader Albert Dorsey, with about 70,000.
“My son is a better player,” Ray states modestly.
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End of Level 9: Limits 800/1600
We go to dinner break – and the final chance to get into the mix.
Albert Dorsey scoops, literally, pulling in the pot of the tournament so far as level 9 wound down.
Big showdown.
Dorsey turned over the second nut low and a straight in a multiway pot with raises on the river – it’s good.
Seat 8 had folded disgustedly what was apparently a set, saving a bet.
Dinner time, yum-yum.
We return at 9:05 pm for post-registration play.