Joking Around
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face up as the players sat in confusion about what to do."Is this his first tournament?" laughed de Wolfe, "he's playing with the joker in his hand?"
By this time, the floor had been called while the dealer had turned the offending card down keeping it separate to the muck.
"Please can I see it?" pleaded Sung, ready to take a photo, but the dealer would not turn it over.
"Is there a hobgoblin too?" inquired de Wolfe, "I think Phil brought it!" referring to Ivey who had disappeared away from the table ahead of a gathering media presence.
Meanwhile, the floor ruled that the player in seat one could get a new card and continue the hand. De Wolfe and Dempsey protested that the deck had not been checked and might contain another joker or a "Lunkin" as De Wolfe cheekily referred to it.
The hand though was played out with a replacement card given and a non-descript board checked down between seat one and Men Nguyen in the small blind. Straight after this a new deck was brought as a replacement.
, and the player with pocket kings bet out 10,000. Montenegro shoved, and the rest of the money got in there. Montenegro's aces held, and he is the early pace setter here in Monte Carlo.
and it was checked to the raiser Lew who bet 350. Chen made the call and the big blind quickly folded allowing the hand to go heads up.
turn, Chen checked a second time and Lew bet 1,000. Chen made the call again and the pot swelled to over 3,000.
did not seem to change much and Chen checked a third time, Lew bet 2,150 and the Canadian youngster then gave up the hand pretty quickly.
turn but come the 
river Mr. Raiser bet out 3,500. Laak folded almost instantly, and dropped to 25,000.
flop and getting called by another player behind and seeing a 
turn. Chidwick check-called 1,000, but come the 