Around the Room We Go

The next table to break is probably the most interesting -- seated it at are Antonio Esfandiari, Hoyt Corkins, Bertrand Grospellier, Erica Schoenberg and Teddy "Iceman" Monroe. Esfandiari is the table chip leader with 360,000, but Corkins has been flexing his muscle to move up to 225,000. He reraised a late position raise by Grospellier (150,000) from 5,600 to 15,000, then showed {A-Spades}

when everyone folded. Schoenberg is hanging tough with 140,000; Monroe is the short stack with about 30,000.

On the other side of the room, Greg Mueller and Phil Ivey are grinding fruitlessly. Mueller is on 75,000; Ivey is at 108,000 after taking a 10,000-chip stab at a flop of {A-Clubs}