The group of players representing Team PokerStars Pro has just grown a bit with a couple late additions. Joe Hachem from Team Pro Australia and Alex Kravchenko from Team Pro Russia have joined the field. Humberto Brenes from Team Pro Costa Rica is also in the field now.
We all know the big names like to register late or some of them are still stuck in other events. Many of the late registrant tables are pretty stacked with multiple big names, but this one in particular really caught our eye.
Seat 1: Humberto Brenes
Seat 2: Hasan Habib
Seat 3: Phil Gordon
Seat 4: Tom Dwan
Seat 5: Eli Elezra
Seat 6: Andy Black
Seat 7: Alex Kravchenko
Seat 8: --empty--
Seat 9: Randall Flowers
Pot-Limit Omaha
Five players saw a flop of 
. Daniel Negreanu's bet of 600 chased out everybody except Antony Lellouche. The turn was the 
and Negreanu bet 1,600. Lellouche popped it to 5,075 and the rest of Negreanu's stack was in the pot a half second later.
Lellouche thought it over and after about a minute, he made the all-in call.
Negreanu: 
Lellouche: 
Lellouche was looking for a club on the river to beat Negreanu's straight, but the 
was no help and he is out. Negreanu upped his stack to about 21,000.
Level: 4
Blinds: /
Ante:
The players in this event could seem to care less about two cards, four cards, flops, turns or rivers and are more fixated on the NBA Finals Game 7 that's going on right now. Many of the players are completely turned around in their seats, some have even left their tables to head towards the TV screens. Phil Gordon specifially went and asked the tournament director if they could stop they event for the last three minutes of the game and he kind of chuckled at the request. If this happens, we'll let you know, but for now the players just have to play and watch, or just watch.
Walking through the field with a good portion of the 300+ players remaining fixated on the Celtics-Lakers game at the moment is a dangerous proposition. Players are hollering for others to sit down and move out of the way.
Everyone seems to have an interest in the game. Floor staff, dealers, janitors, and even massueses have all been caught turning an eye to the game.
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi just wrapped up his run in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship where he made the final table and took eighth place. That finish was worth $49,733, but that's not enough money to keep Mizrachi from playing this $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha event. Mizrachi has pulled a chair up and is seated out in the field. He's already built his stack up to about 11,000, but like everyone else, seems much more interested in the basketball game going on.
Well, the game has just ended and play is resuming to normal now. Chris Ferguson, who had a seat directly next to the TV, took his hat off for the last few minutes so that he would not block the view of others watching.
Well, there was at least one person taking advantage of the field not being very interested in the tournament. Chris Reslock busted an opponent with a big stack at his table and upped his stack to 55,000.
He followed that up by busting another player in Pot-Limit Omaha. The board read 
and Reslock took his opponent's last 3,700 with 
-X-X.
He is up to about 62,000.
Pot-Limit Omaha
A bald eagle in flight isn't very commonly witnessed. It's also not often we see Steve Zolotow getting his money in, but we just just witnessed one of those rare times.
On the board of 
, Zolotow bet out 3,300 before his opponent raised enough to put Zolotow all in. Zolotow made the call and held the 
for a full house. His opponent held the 
. Zolotow was all in on the flop for 6,675 total.
The river completed the board with the 
and Zolotow doubled to about 20,000 in chips.
