Changing Fortunes
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Kurtzman: x-x /
/ xMaier: x-x /
/ xFortunes are slowly changing here in the back of the Brasilia Room. Eric Kurtzman started the day as the chip leader (really he did -- Sebastien Sabic's starting chip count was mistaken due to poor penmanship) but he's now solidly in the middle of the field. He seemed frustarted after a recent hand of stud against CardRunners Director of Marketing Lana Maier.
We caught the action on sixth street, where Maier check-raised Kurtzman. He tanked a fairly long time for a fixed-limit game -- about thirty seconds -- before tossing in a call. On the river Maier led out and Kurtzman called.
"Do you have a boat?" he asked.
Maier let her cards do the talking. She turned up
in the hole for eights full of sevens. That pot pushed Maier's count up to 54,000 (we think - her stacks aren't even) and dropped Kurtzman to about 36,000.
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, Boston got 8,500 in the middle against one opponent. Boston turned up 
for a pair of kings and gutshot wheel draw for high and the nut-low draw. His opponent turned up 
, a pair of deuces and the nut flush draw. Neither player improved on the 
hit the river. His count is up to 16,000.
, James Van Alstyne bet. His opponent called. The turn brought the 
and both players checked. The river was the 
and a bet was laid out in front of Van Alstyne. Van Alstyne made the call.