Six players limped into a pot including Dan Harrington. Everyone checked the flop of . The turn was the . Everyone limped to the player in the cutoff, he picked up chips and was about to bet when Harrington said, "Don't do it."
The player bet anyway and everyone folded, including Harrington.
"You interupted the pace and tranquility of the table," joked Harrington.
Josh "JJProdigy" Field opened with a 350 pre-flop raise and was called by an unknown opponent in the big blind. The flop came and the first action was passed to Field who fired a 450 bet; his opponent called.
The turn brought the and Field's opponent check-called a second bet, this time for 1,150. The river brought another seven () and again, the action went check, bet (2,550), call.
At the showdown, Field tabled for two pair, queens and sevens, and his opponent mucked. After the hand, Field stacked up just over 30,000 in chips.
Perry Friedman raised with from the button and the small blind called. Friedman was betting all the way down after flopping two pair. He picked up a flush draw by the turn. The board ran out and Friedman dragged the pot with a full house.
Three of poker's most successful women, Annie Duke, Clonie Gowen, and Amanda "MandyB" Baker are seated together at Table 17, while right behind them at Table 22 sits an online "murderer's row" featuring Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen, Erick Lindgren, and Shane "Shaniac" Scheleger. Table 14 boasts Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul, Erik "Erik123" Sagstrom, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and Karina Jett.
Kenny Shei flopped a straight on a board of while holding . George Yousef flopped top pair and a up and down straight draw with . All the money went in the flop. The turn was the and the river was the . Kenny Shei won the pot and increased his stack to 38,000. Yousef was crippled down to 200.
With the board showing , Hiroshi Shimamura fired a 3,000 bet into his opponent, actress turned poker player Jennifer Tilly. Holding pocket threes for a full house, Tilly responded with a min-raise, making it 6,000 to go. Shimamura then came over the top with a 15,000 all-in bet. Tilly made the call and Shimamura tabled for a bigger full house to send Tilly to the rail early on Day 1b.
There are plenty of familiar faces here... Mark Inizan, Bodog Ari, David Chiu, Tony "Bond18" Dunst, Damien Oborne, Jeff Lisandro, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Kevin Saul, Karina Jett, Rafe Furst, Casey Castle, Phil Ivey, Annie Duke, Clonie Gowan, Michael Binger, Jen Tilly, Hiroshi Shimimuara, Masa Kagawa, Erick Lindgren, James "Welcome Back" Potter, Jordan Morgan, Barney Boatman, Terrance Chan, and Nenad Medic.
On a quick trip around the room we spotted Dan Harrington, Peter "Nordberg" Feldman, Marsha Waggoner, Kristy Gazes, Marc Karam, Joe Hachem, Mark Vos, Nick Binger, Paul Wasicka, Sorel "Impe1um" Mizzi, Michael "Sticky" Guttman, Adam Junglen, Phil Laak, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klecz, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Peter Pratis and Josh "JJProdigy" Field.