Playground Poker

After four levels of play most of the players have left their seats to enjoy the 45-minute dinner break, a VIP buffet served in the new expansion of Playground Poker Club.

In terms of chip leaders, Timothy Ulmer was able to stay in the top five of today’s WPT Main Event, but he was surpassed by some newcomers on the leader board. Good luck to all on the last four levels tonight!

Also, don’t forget: if you want to come join the action, registration will remain right until the end of the evening.

As we near the end of the third 60-minute level of the WPT Main Event, many players continue to play conservatively, with quite a number of hands never seeing the flop. But just because there are no cards on the table doesn’t mean there is no drama! On table 61, we saw some of that preflop drama occur just a few minutes ago.

Pablo Mariz led out with a raise to 600 which drew two calls. However, Michael Wang made a significant raise to thin the herd. Pablo, not to be outdone, re-raised to 5600, a move that chased out all the players except Michael. After a minute’s contemplation, Michael raised again, making it 20,000 to go.

Ultimately, Pablo wasn’t willing to go the distance, and as he folded the other players at the table appreciated Michael’s play, especially when he flipped over his .

The first three hours of today’s Main Event has seen some relatively conservative play at most of the tables, with many of the hands finding winners without seeing the river. However, just now on table 60 we happened across some risks being taken, as two players found themselves facing off all in preflop.

It was Joseph Ferrier in seat 3 versus Jonathan Little in seat 4.

Ferrier:

Little:

While the odds were clearly in Little’s favor, the board came down . Ferrier won the hand, pairing his aces. A silver lining for Little is that he had the larger stack, and so paid out Ferrier and continued on.