Joe Cabret opens with a minimum raise in early position, and action comes around to the player in the big blind. He moves all in, and Cabret quickly calls, showing . His opponent sheepishly turns over .
The board runs down , and Cabret's aces hold up, improving to the top flush. He nearly doubles up and sends a player out early.
While sharing a bottle of red wine together, Mark Vos and Jay Kinkade do have some time to actually play poker. This hand involved Vos as Kinkade elected to fold and enjoy his recently poured glass.
When everyone at the table folded over to Vos in the small blind, he just opened shoved for 12,500. The big blind called with . Vos held small connectors in the .
The board ran out and kicked Vos all the way back to 4,500 chips. He's been playing quite eratic since the tournament began, so we may see some more interesting hands and plays from Vos pretty soon.
We pick up a heads up pot between James Honeybone and Kenneth Damm on the river, with the board showing . Both players end up all in after the last street, with Damm having his man slightly covered. With a big pile of chips up for grabs early, the hands are shown down:
Honeybone:
Damm:
Both men flopped a pair and improved to a flush on fifth street, but Damm has Honeybone pegged by one. He collects an early near-double up, sending James Honeybone to the rail in the process.
As the namesake of this event, all eyes are on Tony G over at Table 29. Just a few minutes into the tournament, he moved all in for his whole stack with . Action folded around to Con Cotsomitis, and he made the call in the dark before he even looked at his cards. The rest of the table passed, and Cotsomitis turned up a reasonable hand: . As Tony G stood and a crowd gathered around the table, the dealer ran out the board: .
Coming from behind to pair his ace, Cotsomitis delivers the early deathblow to Tony G. He will pocket $500, and claims the first bounty of the day.
As an added bonus to the event, there is one player at each table with a bounty on his or her head. If a player eliminates a name from the list below, he or she will receive $500 in prize money. This, combined with the fact that players have 20 seconds to act, should make the play really interesting.
Here are the bounties:
Michael Zowie
Maurice Pears
John Caldwell
Jeffrey Haas
Van Marcus
Damon Rasheed
Jonathan Karamalikis
Jay Kinkade
Julian Powell
Kevin Khouiss
Andrew Demetriou
Tony Bromham
Tony G
Mounib Youssef
Matthew Kirk
Tim Horan
Graham Woodbine
George Cotaidis
David Steicke
James Obst
Graeme 'Kiwi G' Putt
Dory Zayneh
Sam Khouiss
The flop came down and Manny Rodrigues found all of his chips in the middle of the table. It was only a few hands into the event, but Rodrigues already had anm opponent on the ropes with the nut flush, . His opponent held . Peter Aristidou folded face up on the flop with all of the crazy action that he saw going on in the hand.
The turn and river fell the then the , giving Rodrigues an early double up to over 10,000 chips.
On a flop of Q-Q-9-Q-8, Tony G called a bet from an unknown player of 325 on the river. His opponent showed Tony Q-7 for four-of-a-kind queens, leaving the G shaking his head early on.