David E. Williams opened for a preflop raise only to find Jerry Monroe move his entire stack of about 240,000 in the middle. Action folded back to Williams who made the call.
Monroe:
Williams:
The board ran out and Monroe's trip aces were able to score him a double up.
Roscoe Bennett came into play today as the short stack and moved his entire stack into the middle during one of the first hands. He was called by Chris Parsons.
Bennett:
Parsons:
The board fell and Bennett was sent to the rail in 12th place, collecting $8,576 in tournament winnings.
When this tournament began a mere two days ago, 337 people had dreams of grabbing World Series of Poker Circuit glory. Now only 12 remain in contention for the WSOPC gold ring and the $112,779. Leading the pack by a substantial margin is Jeremy Drewery, who is sitting on a leading stack of 1.524 million chips.
Drewery leads by a large amount, as the next biggest stack behind him is that of Michael Nasserazad (851,000). Rounding out the top three is Ronnie Sewell with 697,000. The starting chip counts of the twelve remaining players are as follows:
Player
Chips
Jeremy Drewery
152,4000
Michael Nasserazad
851,000
Ronnie Sewell
697,000
Bill Phillips
680,000
David E. Williams
671,000
Chris Parsons
575,000
John Holley
320,000
Russell Ivey
302,000
Jerry Monroe
300,000
Richard Tucker
288,000
Roscoe Bennett
128,000
The first two levels of play today will be sixty-minutes, and then the levels will jump to seventy-five minutes until we crown a champion. Cards will be in the air in a few moments. Stay tuned here at Pokernews.com for all of the latest updates!
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and Tucker's short morning was over. The clock was paused for the final ten players to move to the final table.
