Steve Karr from Las Vegas just called over to a PokerNews reporter and said, "Hey, put the best biceps in the Seniors in [the blog]." We don't have a picture of Karr yet, but we'll get one soon enough. We can tell you that Karr flexed a little bit for us and we can confirm he does have the best biceps left in the Seniors Championship.
Karr also has 120,000 in chips to go along with his guns.
Kevin DeTienne has just moved to 575,000 in chips. DeTienne had an opponent all in with the 
versus his 
on a flop of 
.
"If you hace an ace, you're good," said DeTienne's opponent after DeTienne made the call.
The turn was the 
and river the 
, giving DeTienne the pot and moving him way up on top of the leaderboard.
Looking at DeTienne's record, we find he has three cashes to his credit with the largest being a third-place finish in the $1,000 event at the Mirage Poker Showdown in Las Vegas in 2006. He took home over $13,000 for that finish. Right now it looks like DeTienne has put himself in quite the position to best that result and we'll be watching him to see if he can do it.
We don't know exactly how the action went but on a board of 
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman moved all in and was called by Glenn Woodcock.
Woodcock: 
Shulman:
Woodcock now needed the last queen in the deck or running diamonds to win this hand. He received no such luck when the 
fell on the turn and the 
landed on the river.
A couple of hands later Woodcock moved in and was called by two players including Thomas C Geist. The flop came 
and Geist bet out 17,000 and received a call. The 
on the turn saw two checks, and the same can be said for the on the river.
Cards were turned over and it was Geist and his opponent chopping the pot as they both held 
. Woodcock was eliminated as his 
amounted to nothing.
There's been some different things going in Event 29: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship. One thing was the early start times to accommodate the players a bit more. That seemed to have worked out as over 4,100 players came out for this event.
Oftentimes in tournaments, the players request for a sports game or a fight to be put on the televisions around the tournament area, but not here in this one. On the TVs in the Seniors Championship is Jeopardy and it's the choice of show for some of the remaining players left. Nothing wrong with wanting to learn a little bit of trivia and gain some knowledge while playing a poker tournament, right?
Hoyt Corkins started the action off from middle position raising it to 16,000. The table folded around to the small blind who moved all in for 67,000 more. After a few moments Corkins made the call.
Corkins:
Opponent:
The board came 
and Corkins was awarded the pot as his top two pair were best.
The board read 
and Glenn Woodcock bet out 50,000 from the big blind into the under the gun player. Woodcock's opponent then moved all in for 113,500 total and Woodcock made the call.
Woodcock: 
Opponent: 
A river 
was no use to Woodcock who needed a nine or a heart. Woodcock no sits with almost 150,000 and will need to do some rebuilding.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Frederick Roll started the action out in this recent hand by making it 18,000. A player in late position moved all in for 91,500 more and Roll made the call.
Roll:
Opponent:
As long as an ace didn't drop it looked like Roll would scoop up the pot. The board came 
and Roll's queens were best.
Anthony Wise raised it up to 17,000 from middle position and found a caller in Chris Bjorin. The dealer spread a flop 
and Wise bet out 22,000, and Bjorin moved all in. Wise made the call and cards were flipped over.
Bjorin: 
Wise: 
Bjorin possessed an gut-shot straight draw and a pair of nines, while his opponent had a flush draw and an over-pair draw. The on the turn gave Bjorin an open-ended straight draw, but a on the river put the best of it in Wise's hand. His nut flush was more than enough to claim the pot, and Bjorin was eliminated.
Chris Bjorin had an opponent all in and on the ropes with the . His opponent held a weaker pair in the . The board ran out 
and Bjorin's nines held up. He busted the player and moved to 185,000 in chips.
Bjorin is one of the most, if not the most, successful player left in the field. The long-time Swedish professional has two World Series of Poker gold bracelets and 62 WSOP cashes, which is tied for fifth all time with Humberto Brenes. Because Brenes also cashed in this event, the two remain tied.
Bjorin has over $5.2 million in live tournament earnings and his two bracelets came from 1997 in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha and the 2000 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em events. He's also final tabled the 2009 WSOP Europe Main Event and numerous other WSOP events.
Just this year, Bjorin made the final table of Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better and took second place for nearly $125,000.
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