Ryan Lenaghan is well known for his deep run in the 2011 Main Event, and he is looking to repeat that success here today. Lenaghan registered a few hours late, but that hasn't stopped him from accumulating a ton of chips.
We got a brief recap of the hand that helped propelled Lenaghan up. Action started with poker pro Jason Lee open shoving his last 6,000. Action folded around to a player in middle position, and he moved all in for about 20,000. A couple folds got us to Lenaghan, and he called all in for his last 15,000.
Lenaghan:
Lee:
Opponent:
The flop hit both Lee and Lenaghan, coming . The board completed with no miracles, and Lenaghan jumped up to 58,000 after the hand.
Eric Baldwin is now up to almost 30,000 after busting an opponent recently.
We caught up to the action with the board reading . There was a bet of 625 in front of a player in middle position, and Baldwin decided to raise to 1,700. The player in middle position then put in a reraise to 2,875 and Baldwin called.
The turn fell the and both players checked. On the river though, Baldwin put out a bet of 10,000, enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent made the call and Baldwin turned up for trip jacks. His opponent flashed the other , but Baldwin had him beat and he mucked without showing the other card.
We didn't catch the action as it happen, but Jay "WhoJedi" Newnum filled us in on what happened. According to him, he raised it up to 2,400 on the button, and the player in the big blind shipped all in, having Newnum covered.
Newnum called with , and was in about as good a shape as you can be in, as his opponent had . Of course, nothing is easy in poker, as the flop came down giving his opponent a gut shot straight draw. However, it never came, and Newnum collected the double.
He was quickly rewarded for this double by getting poker pro Joe Tehan moved directly to his left. Tehan has about 65,000.
Tomorrow. We got confirmation earlier from the man himself that Deeb is electing to do exactly what he did last year: skip Day 1 all together and register on Day 2. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it right?
Erik Roussakis final tabled the last WSOPC Main Event, which was in Rincon in December. Roussakis finished 5th in that event, and he is looking to one up that performance here at the Bike. Well he is well on his way in this Day 1, as we just caught him taking a pot to up his stack to almost 60,000.
Roussakis was heads up with another player on a board that read . It was checked to Roussakis, who fired out 7,200. His opponent reluctantly folded his hand, giving the pot to Roussakis.
After just recently busting from flight 1a, Allan Le, Nam Le's brother, is back in business in flight 1b.
Le was just in a rather large pot. With over 5,000 in the pot, and the board reading , Le bet out 4,550. His opponent fell into the tank briefly and said, "That's a good bet," before folding face up.
Allan scooped the pot, and as he did his opponent looked over at him and asked, "Was that good?"
Le just shook his head and raked in the chips. He is now up to 26,000.
Looking around the room, there are a few stacks of unknown players that are at or around the 100,000. We will be sure to get all their names as the night goes on, but right now, the chip leader appears to be Derrick Yamada, who finished runner-up in the Lake Tahoe Main Event. By our counts, he is sitting on 140,000. We will be sure to keep an eye on his stack as the night winds down.
. The board completed with no miracles, and Lenaghan jumped up to 58,000 after the hand.
. There was a bet of 625 in front of a player in middle position, and Baldwin decided to raise to 1,700. The player in middle position then put in a reraise to 2,875 and Baldwin called.
and both players checked. On the 
river though, Baldwin put out a bet of 10,000, enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent made the call and Baldwin turned up 
for trip jacks. His opponent flashed the other 
, but Baldwin had him beat and he mucked without showing the other card.
. Of course, nothing is easy in poker, as the flop came down 
. It was checked to Roussakis, who fired out 7,200. His opponent reluctantly folded his hand, giving the pot to Roussakis.
face up.
