Flush for Kling
We got to the table with the board reading {x} and Lauren Kling all in for about 3,000, after her opponent had bet 900. She eventually got called and turned over to the table for the nut-flush.
She's with about 7,000 chips.
We got to the table with the board reading {x} and Lauren Kling all in for about 3,000, after her opponent had bet 900. She eventually got called and turned over to the table for the nut-flush.
She's with about 7,000 chips.
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott has made an early exit from today's event. After pre-flop action that was three-bet to 900, the flop delivered and Ulliott shoved for his last 2,725. He was called by Mike "Chico" Dufloth.
Ulliott:
Dufloth:
Ulliott was working with plenty of outs, and found one on the turn, which was . Happy times weren't to last, though. Dufloth filled with on the river.
Shaun Deeb won an unexpected pot when he raised to 200 in late position with the only call coming from the big blind.
The board was checked down on all streets, coming to read . Deeb, unlikely to have expected to win the hand, showed . However his opponent mucked and Deeb is now sitting at 8,500 in chips.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Praz Bansi had worked his way up to over twice his starting stack, but lost some of them in this latest hand where hand he opened to 125 from middle position and was called by both the button and big blind.
The flop came down . Action was checked to Bansi, who bet 300 into the pot and was called by both players.
The table checked around when the came on the turn.
The river was the . Bansi checked and the button bet 1,150. After tanking for a while, Bansi went to make the call, hesitated, and finally committed. Bansi mucked when he saw the button's .
Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri saw the flop along with two other players. With 450 chips on it, the small blind bet out 300 and Minieri, who was in the big blind to being the hand, made a raise to 1,125. The next player folded and then the small blind folded as well. The young Italian showed the for the bluff.
A few hands later the board was and Minieri showed down the for a straight to best his opponent's and he now has 12,000 chips.
The board showed and 5,000 chips were in the pot when Gracz went all in for about 7,000 chips on the button. Gracz got called and turned up the for a set of queens on the river. His opponent mucked and Gracz moved himself up to an early chip lead with 20,000 chips.
As the tables fill up we're starting to see more recognizable faces (and online screen names) sitting down to play, including:
Alan Smurfit
Andrew Lichtenberg
Chris "Moorman1" Moorman
David "The Maven" Chicotsky
Vitaly Lunkin
Joe Serock
Steve O'Dwyer
Gavin Smith
Scott Seiver
Matt Ross
Jason Mercier
Justin Young
Dario Minieri
Erica Schoenberg
Sabyl Cohen
Humberto Brenes
Dan Shak
We didn't see the action, but Jerry's Yang seat is now vacant and the player on Seat 7 has a double stack making for a very short day for the 2007 WSOP Main Event winner.
We've come across our first table of death, which can be found at Table 99.
Table Of Death #1
Seat 1 - Andreas Hoivold
Seat 3 - Jerry Yang
Seat 8 - Sorrel Mizzi