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There is a player on Blue #4 who has been causing quite a scene through the first two levels of the tournament. He has already received two penalties, one for stalling and one for swearing. He is drinking Guinness and doesn't seem to have a strong grasp on his surroundings or the nuances of 2-7 Triple Draw.
Recently, he tangled with late arrival Tony "G" Guoga. The pot was raised before the draw. He drew two on the first draw, while Tony G stood pat. He checked, then called after Tony G bet.
Both players stood pat after the second draw. Again Tony G bet when the action was checked to him. This time, his opponent tried to move all in. Obviously, this is a limit game, and bet sizes are fixed. The player was not allowed to put all of his chips in the middle.
"This is absurd," he said, drawing laughs from the rest of the table.
Both players stood pat again on the third draw. At this point, Tony G's opponent showed a neighbor his hand, then checked and called when Tony G bet. Tony G showed the second nuts, 7-6-4-3-2. His opponent turned over Q-Q-T-T-9 for two pair.
After the hand was completed, Tony G's opponent was given a two-round penalty for exposing his cards to another player while the hand was still in progress.
Shamus
Men Nguyen, Tom Schneider, Archie Karas, and a fourth player each paid two bets before the first draw. Nguyen, Schneider, and Karas each drew three, and the other player two.
Nguyen bet from the small blind, Karas folded, and Schneider and the other player called. Nguyen took one card, Schneider two, and the other player one.
All checked. This time Schneider and Nguyen took one, and the other player two.
On the last round of betting, Nguyen checked, Schneider bet, the other player folded, and Nguyen called. Nguyen showed 8-7-5-4-2 and Schneider mucked.
After being down to just 300, Nguyen has battled back to 5,300. Schneider has 4,400. Archie Karas, meanwhile, has just won another hand and is up to 9,500.
Shamus
Alex Kravchenko and Roland de Wolfe were both down to their last 475 exactly before the following hand took place.
Kravchenko, de Wolfe, and a third player each put two bets (i.e., 300) in before the first draw. All drew two cards. Kravchenko and de Wolfe ended up each putting his last 175 in the middle on this round of betting, along with the third player.
At this point, de Wolfe decided to show his hand, 8-6-5-4-3, announcing he was staying pat from here on out. Both Kravchenko and the other player drew one on the second round, and Kravchenko drew one and the other two on the third round.
Neither managed to catch up to de Wolfe's 8-6, and Kravchenko was eliminated.
"That's why I'm the most entertaining player in the world," said de Wolfe afterwards, alluding to his unorthodox decision to show his hand after the first draw.
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Andy Bloch, in the small blind, called a raise to 300 from the under-the-gun opponent. Each player drew two cards on the first draw, one card on the second draw, and one card on the third draw. Bloch check-called after each of the first two draws, then led out with a bet of his own after the third draw. His opponent called, only to see Bloch turn over a smooth 8 and take down the pot.
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Tournament Director Jack Effel is being chased from one side of the Amazon Room to the other by several players who are unhappy with his decision regarding the procedure to use when more draw cards are taken than are in the deck.
To reiterate, at the start of the tournament Effel declared that discards will immediately be killed and placed in the dead wood. (This is the pile that includes mucked hands but excludes burn cards.) Those cards will be shuffled back into the deck if needed. However, burn cards will stay down on the table for the duration of the hand.
Howard Lederer thinks all discards should be kept separate from mucked cards; you should never have the chance to get back the same card. Typically, in 2-7 Triple Draw, the discards are kept in a separate pile from the muck for this very reason. However, under Effel's rule, it's possible that a player could receive in the third draw a card he discarded before the first draw.
Greg Raymer, and several other name pros, are even more unhappy with the chance to receive the same card in the same round. They all agree that there should never be the chance for such a situation to occur. However, again, under Effel's rule, each player discards, and those discards are immediately killed and placed in the dead wood. If the stub proves insufficient to cover all draws in that round, the dead wood is shuffled and then the draw is completed.
Shamus
Todd Brunson raised from the hijack seat, and Dario Minieri called from the big blind. Brunson stood pat, and Minieri drew two cards. Minieri checked, Brunson bet, and Minieri called.
On the second round, Brunson again stood pat and Minieri took one card. Again, Minieri check-called Brunson's bet.
On the third round, Minieri stood pat. Seeing that, Brunson decided to break his hand and drew one card. Both checked.
Minieri showed a 10-8. "A ten?" said Brunson, who looked as though he probably broke a better hand. He mucked.
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Mimi Tran
It was a quick day for Mimi Tran. She put the last of her chips in before the first draw, and was drawing against three other players. She drew three cards, then two cards, then two more cards to finish with a rough eight. One of the other players in the hand finished with a seven-six, sending Tran to the rail.
Jonathan Little is also out. He was drawing live against a nine on the third draw. He drew one card, but pulled a ten and hit the rail.
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