Adam Levy, who came 12th in last year's Main Event and 48th in the 2008 Main Event, is out. Levy took hits early on and was grinding the shortest of short stacks all day long before finally being ousted. Levy was down to below 2,000 and had doubled to around 4,000 before this hand.
Preflop, a player in late position raised it up to 800 and Levy re-raised all in for 3,790 and got a call.
Levy:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Levy's hopes for a third deep Main Event run were dashed.
Four players saw the flop where the big blind checked to Jordan Rich in early position who bet 1,200. A player in middle position called but then the button raised to 4,100 total. The big blind folded and Rich quickly moved all in for 16,000 straight.
The middle position player folded and the button went into the tank. The ESPN camera crew was called over but it was all for nothing as the button eventually folded and Rich took down the pot.
On a flop of , Maria Ho's opponent dropped a bet of 775 into the middle. Ho called and they saw the turn come . Her opponent checked and Ho tossed out 1,250. Her opponent made the call and the final card came in the form of the . Once again Ho's opponent checked and once again she pushed out a bet. This time the magic number was 2,700.
After some deliberation, Ho's opponent made the call and she shot her cards quickly toward the muck. Her opponent tabled and was able to win the pot with a pair of nines.
We caught up with the action on a flop, where Jason Alexander led out for 1,200 from the big blind. He found one caller from a player in middle position.
A fell on the turn and Alexander checked. His opponent fired a 2,025 bet and Alexander called.
Alexander again checked on the river. His opponent looked like he wanted to bet, but rapped the table for a check. Alexander showed for a pair of jacks and his opponent mucked.
Three players, including Manuel Bevand in late position, had together built a pot of about 6,500 in the middle when the flop came . The early position player checked, then the next player over bet 5,000. Bevand inquired how much the bettor had behind -- about 9,000 -- then raised enough to cover his stack. The early position player got out, and Bevand's opponent called.
Bevand had , but was well behind his opponent's . Then came the turn and river -- -- giving Bevand a backdoor spade flush and sending his opponent to the rail.
"Better lucky than good," Bevand shrugged as he stacked up his winnings. He has about 53,000 as we approach the end of Level 3 and the dinner break.
We missed the hand that did him in, but according to his twitter, Matt Affleck shoved his last 9,000 in with tens against jacks and couldn't catch up, eliminating him from the tournament. Affleck is best known for his back-to-back deep runs in the main event the last two years. In 2009, he finished 80th, and last year, he finished 15th, losing to eventual champion Jonathan Duhamel in one of the most talked about hands in recent years. Matt Affleck's World Series is now over.
Not long ago, we saw Lex Veldhuis with a stack of around 90,000 but since then, he has been a pretty big downfall. With already 9,650 in the pot and the board reading , the big blind bet 7,000 and Lex Veldhuis made the call from middle position. The big blind showed and Veldhuis mucked as he continued to drop.
In the next-to-last hand before the break, Greg Raymer joined a group of limpers from middle position, then the big blind raised to 2,300. Raymer reraised to 5,300, forcing the rest of the crowd out. The action back on Raymer's opponent, he made it 12,300 to go, and Raymer called.
The flop came , and the big blind responded by shoving all in. Raymer -- covered by his opponent -- called with the 17,300 he had left.
Raymer showed for a flopped set of deuces, while his opponent had for the overpair and a flush draw. The dealer burned a card and dealt the turn -- the -- at which point the proceedings were halted for a moment while the ESPN camera crews got into place. They made it time for some drama, as the river brought the , giving Raymer's opponent the flush.
The 2004 Main Event champ signed a fossil to give to his vanquisher before heading out, not to return from dinner.
They've made it to the end of Level 3 -- well, the majority of them, anyway -- and those still with chips are now taking a 90-minute dinner break. See you back about 8:15 p.m. local time for more from Day 1a.
and Levy's hopes for a third deep Main Event run were dashed.
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flop where the big blind checked to Jordan Rich in early position who bet 1,200. A player in middle position called but then the button raised to 4,100 total. The big blind folded and Rich quickly moved all in for 16,000 straight.
, Maria Ho's opponent dropped a bet of 775 into the middle. Ho called and they saw the turn come 
. Her opponent checked and Ho tossed out 1,250. Her opponent made the call and the final card came in the form of the 
. Once again Ho's opponent checked and once again she pushed out a bet. This time the magic number was 2,700.
and was able to win the pot with a pair of nines.
flop, where Jason Alexander led out for 1,200 from the big blind. He found one caller from a player in middle position.
river. His opponent looked like he wanted to bet, but rapped the table for a check. Alexander showed 
for a pair of jacks and his opponent mucked.
, but was well behind his opponent's 
. Then came the turn and river -- 
-- giving Bevand a backdoor spade flush and sending his opponent to the rail.
, the big blind bet 7,000 and Lex Veldhuis made the call from middle position. The big blind showed 
and Veldhuis mucked as he continued to drop.
-- at which point the proceedings were halted for a moment while the ESPN camera crews got into place. They made it time for some drama, as the river brought the 
, giving Raymer's opponent the flush.