Main Event Day 1b | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles

11-13-2010 17:00 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
	77,000 47,000	47,000
	42,000 -14,000	-14,000
Michael Martin	40,000
Matt Stout	39,000 9,000	9,000
	39,000 9,000	9,000
Kathy Liebert	39,000 9,000	9,000

	38,000 8,000	8,000
	38,000 8,000	8,000
Tim Begley	35,000 5,000	5,000
Nick Binger	32,000 2,000	2,000

Mark Seif	29,000 -1,000	-1,000

	28,000 -2,000	-2,000
Dwyte Pilgrim	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Vanessa Rousso	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Faraz Jaka	26,000 -15,000	-15,000

Jon Turner	25,000 -5,000	-5,000
Maria Ho	22,000 3,500	3,500
John Dolan	21,000 -9,000	-9,000
Bertrand Grospellier	18,000 -12,000	-12,000

Jean Gaspard	13,000 -17,000	-17,000

Jimmy Tran	11,000 -19,000	-19,000
Dan Heimiller	10,000

Charlie Hook	10,000 -20,000	-20,000
Marcello Del Grosso	4,000 -26,000	-26,000

Nacho Barbero	Busted

Vanessa Rousso limped under the gun and action folded all the way around to Nenad Medic in the small blind. He decided to call, as did the big blind, and the flop came down {6-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} . Medic immediately fired out a bet of 400 and both of his opponents folded. Medic, who had a rough start to the day, seems to have recovered nicely and is up to 56,000.

Tags: Vanessa Rousso Nenad Medic

11-13-2010 16:40 UTC-7

Tough Tables Gets Tougher

Chad Holloway

As players are eliminated, tables are broken and players assigned to vacant seats. Dwyte Pilgrim was at a fairly tough table to start the day alongside Mark Seif and Nick Binger, but that table has now been broke.

Unfortunately for Pilgrim, he has been moved to an even tougher table. In fact he has been moved to what could be the toughest table in the entire room. Pilgrim has joined Faraz Jaka, Maria Ho, Jose "Nacho" Barbero, and Isaac Baron over at Table 34. This'll certainly be an action table and worth keeping an eye on.

Tags: Dwyte Pilgrim Faraz Jaka Isaac Baron Jose Barbero Maria Ho Mark Seif Nick Binger

11-13-2010 16:34 UTC-7

Cada Hanging In There

Chad Holloway

The poker world may have crowned a new world champ last week, but that is no reason to forget about last year's winner. The 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event winner and PokerStars Team Pro (USA) member, Joe Cada, is in action today.

In a recent hand, Cada was in the big blind and action folded to the player on the button, who raised to 500. The small blind tagged along and Cada decided to push back with a raise to 2,000. It was enough to get his opponents to fold and Cada took down the small pot. He is holding strong right around the starting stack of 30,000.

Tags: Joe Cada

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

11-13-2010 16:10 UTC-7

Break Time

Chad Holloway

Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.

11-13-2010 16:08 UTC-7

The Sporadic Play of Ryan Young

donpeters

Wandering past Ryan Young's table, we've noticed he seems to be doing a lot of different things. The first thing we noticed was Young raising to 1,400 preflop. Everyone folded and he won the pot, but an opening raise of greater than nine times the big blind certainly was something out of the ordinary.

On the next hand, Young limped and saw the flop come down {10-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} with six other players in the hand. Young fired 1,300 on the flop to win the pot. The pot was 1,050 when he bet 1,300.

On the hand after that, Young made it 400 before an opponent three-bet to 1,100. Vivek Rajkumar got involved with a call on the button and then Young called. The flop came down {5-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {2-Spades} and action checked to Rajkumar. He fired 1,800 and Young folded. The other player made the call.

The turn brought the {6-Hearts} and both players checked to see the {10-Diamonds} land on the river. The first player checked, but Rajkumar didn't bite. He checked behind and then mucked when his opponent tabled the {A-Diamonds} {A-Spades} .

The hand after that one, Young limped in from under the gun. Matt Waxman raised to 550 in the hijack seat and Rajkumar called in the cutoff seat. Young called as well.

The flop came down {A-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} and Young checked. Waxman fired 800 and Rajkumar folded. Young made the call.

The turn was the {2-Spades} and both players checked. The river completed the board with the {A-Spades} , pairing it with bullets. Young fired a big bet of 4,000 and Waxman tanked. Young called the clock on Waxman after a little while, to which Waxman mucked his hand to give Young the pot.

Tags: Matt Waxman Ryan Young Vivek Rajkumar

11-13-2010 15:54 UTC-7

Jaka-Jaka

Chad Holloway

Action folded to Maria Ho in the hijack and she raised to 400. Faraz Jaka called from the small blind and the two went heads up to the {Q-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} flop. Jaka checked, Ho bet 400, and Jaka called as the {A-Diamonds} hit the turn.

Both players checked and the {2-Diamonds} appeared on the river. Once again Jaka checked. Ho bet a modest 700 and Jaka, not surprisingly, check-raised to 3,600. Ho tanked for a minute and then made the call. Jaka turned over {8-Diamonds} {8-Spades} for a flopped set and took down the pot. He is up to 41,000 while Ho dropped to 18,500.

Tags: Maria Ho Faraz Jaka

11-13-2010 15:45 UTC-7

Chip Chop

Chad Holloway

Action folded to Michael Binger on the button and he put in a raise to 350. The small blind folded but the big blind decided to see a flop, which came down {9-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {A-Spades} . The big blind checked and Binger bet 400.

After another call, the {7-Spades} hit the turn and both players checked. They did the same on the {9-Diamonds} river and the big blind showed {Q-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} . "Is that queen high?" Binger asked as he turned over {Q-Spades} {10-Clubs} for a queen high of his own. Chop it up.

Tags: Michael Binger

11-13-2010 15:40 UTC-7

Mueller Busted

Chad Holloway

We didn't catch the hand but walked by the table just as Greg Mueller was collecting his things and wishing his tablemates good luck. One thing is for sure, Mueller has become one of the early casualties of Day 1b.

Tags: Greg Mueller