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Australian boxer Jeff "The Marrickville Mauler" Fenech, who won three World Championship titles in the 1980s, is in the field today. 21 of his 28 career wins came by knockout, and he's no doubt looking to repeat that performance today, albeit by raking in chips rather than delivering punches.
Though he works primarily as a trainer these days, the 43-year-old Fenech recently came out of retirement to fight 49-year-old former rival Azumah Nelson in a "grudge match" last month in Australia, which he won.
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Andy Black
Andy Black limped in from under the gun and another player in early position limped along. The action folded to the small blind, who raised it up to 350. The big blind and the two limpers made the call.
The four players took a flop of and it was checked around. The turn was the and the small blind fired out a bet of 2,100. Black was the lone caller as the other two players stepped aside.
The river was the and the small blind checked to Black who fired out 5,000. The small blind called and tabled . Black cringed and tossed his cards into the muck, as he gets off to a rocky start.
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Erick Lindgren is at the ESPN TV table and his good friend Daniel Negreanu is playing at the feature table just outside the Milwaukee's Best Light Lounge. Also playing today are Haralabos Voulgaris and David Bach.
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David Levi, event #53
David Levi sat down in his seat, folded one hand, said hello to Kenna James, and then played his next hand.
James Namken and Levi went to the flop and watched the dealer spread the across the felt. Levi checked and Namken bet out 500. Levi raised it up to 1,500 and Namken called.
The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and Levi bet out 2,000. His opponent verbally made the call.
Levi showed for a full house and his opponent shipped over the 2,000 that he owed.
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While every other table in the Amazon Room is playing with blinds of 50 and 100, the players at Blue #1 (Jamie Gold's table) are playing with blinds of 25 and 50. Neither the dealer nor any of the players at the table seem to have noticed or cared. We'll keep an eye on it to see how long it takes before someone mentions it to the dealer.
Gold has played almost every hand so far. One of his opponents just asked him where his banner is (banners of past champions are hung around the Amazon Room). He replied, "It's two over from the question mark. There's the question mark for this year, Jerry Yang for last year, then me."
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Tomko from Event #45
Among the players spotted in the Orange section are Barny Boatman, Jacobo Fernandez, last year's fourth-place finisher, Alex Kravchenko, and three-time bracelet winner Dewey Tomko.
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Steve Zolotow, during HORSE World Championship
Other notable players in the orange section today include Steve Zolotow, Mickey Appleman, Thor Hansen, Todd Witteles, Yosh Nakano, John Duthie, Erich Kollman, Sverre Sundbo and Christiane Klecz.
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The dealer at Table 12 was just forced to give a bit of a remedial course to his players about what constitutes a raise or a call in terms of how the chips are placed into the pot. Some players were apparently not verbalizing their action by saying "raise" while tossing oversized chips into the pot and these actions, per the tournament rules, were ruled as calls and not raises, despite the players' intentions.
Remember, kids... when in doubt, if you want to raise, say "Raise!"
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and it was checked around. The turn was the 
and the small blind fired out a bet of 2,100. Black was the lone caller as the other two players stepped aside.
and the small blind checked to Black who fired out 5,000. The small blind called and tabled 
. Black cringed and tossed his cards into the muck, as he gets off to a rocky start.
across the felt. Levi checked and Namken bet out 500. Levi raised it up to 1,500 and Namken called.
and both players checked. The river was the 
and Levi bet out 2,000. His opponent verbally made the call.
for a full house and his opponent shipped over the 2,000 that he owed.
and the opponent bets 425. McEvoy calls.
and the opponent checks. McEvoy bets 1,500 and the opponent calls. 
and picks it up. He has 26,000.
