Luis Vazquez is on a roll here as the first level comes to a close. He just busted Curt Kohlberg after the two got all in on the flop of . Kohlberg held bottom set with the and Vazquez a flush draw with the .
The turn brought the and gave Vazquez his flush. The river failed to pair the board with the and Kohlberg stood up and exited the tournament. Send another $5,000 chip Vazquez's way as he now has two eliminations and there's only three players left at his table.
Daniel Negreanu just discussed about how he hasn't been to any forums in the past two weeks. "I banned myself from any forum," he said. "My therapist told me to do so."
He went on to talk about how it affects his mind and emotional state to get all worked up with the jibber-jabber on the forums and has since stopped going to them.
Sam Stein finished as the funner up at the NAPT Venetian Main Event. Some may say he ran really, really well to get that far and if that's true, it seems as though he's still running good.
On a flop of , Stein checked to Brian Powell who fired 2,900. Stein check-raised to 7,150 and Powell tank-called.
The turn brought the and Stein moved all in for 11,975. Powell quickly made the call and tabled two red aces. Stein held the for top pair of kings. Powell's aces were in the lead and he also had the flush draw to go with it.
After a long pause for the cameras to grab all the action, the river card was dealt. The smacked the felt on the river and boom! Just like that Stein won the hand and doubled up. Powell was left with just about 5,000 chips.
Chau Giang moved all in for his last 1,875 from the cutoff seat before Pat Pezzin reraised to 5,200 from the button. Everyone folded and it was Giang versus Pezzin.
Giang held the and Pezzin the . After the board ran out , Giang sent over his bounty chip and exited the tournament.
We've just witnessed the first elimination of the event and it came only a couple minutes into play. Luis Vazquez was all in preflop with NAPT Venetian winner Tom Marchese. Marchese had the slighter smaller stack and was the player at risk. He held against Vazquez's .
After a board of , Marchese tossed his $5,000 chip over to Vazquez and exited the tournament.
Vazquez is a local player from Massachhussetts who recently took down the Foxwoods Poker Classic $3,300 Main Event for just under $145,000. He won his seat to this event via the live satellite held last night.