[user46298]
I don't know what it is about the Shadow Bar -- the soothingly-dimmed lighting, the glowing blue dance floor with the Feature Table perched upon it, the star-studded table itself (Lisandro added to the Hansen/Harman/Coren/Bjorin mix)... Busted players and pure spectators alike, like Paul Jackson, Neil Channing, and now Daniel Negreanu come to hang out and watch the end of today's action. Negreanu enquired as to Jennifer Harman's stack -- it's about 43,000 and could have been double or bust -- if she'd been called after reraising all in preflop just a minute ago.
Summary of the less-interesting hands (most pots are being taken without a flop) -- 2x Gus Hansen preflop reraise (win), 1x Rehne Pedersen preflop reraise (win), 3x Gus Hansen preflop raise (win), 2x Chris Bjorin preflop raise (win).
[user24788]
Phil He11muth - On Life Support
Phil Hellmuth is short-stacked with about 8,000. He's on death watch as a mob of reporters and railbirds are circling his table like vultures, waiting to pick apart his dead carcass.
Hellmuth: "I can't believe that I'm still here. I won one hand in the last four rounds. Wait, maybe it was five rounds. I can't believe it. Am I really still here?"
[user25067]
Bluff-Master Lindgren
With the board reading , Lindgren fired out 14,000 on the turn and after his opponent took a long think, got a call. The river was the and Lindgren bet enough to set his opponent all in. After another few tortured moments in the tank, the young Brit gave it up. Lindgren flashed the as he dragged the pot.
[user4144]
I've been expecting you, Mr Jones.
James Bond villain Janne Lamsa appears to be a ruthless, no-mess kind of player that I would be reluctant to invite to my home game, and it showed in his last pot against Gary Jones.
After Phillip Hilm had raised to 3,500 preflop and Janne called from the cutoff, Gary made it 15,000 on the button. Phillip Hilm then gave Gary the stare down of all stare downs, his ice-cold glare at one point actually seen piercing through Gary's head. Gary, shades on and eyes down, remained silent throughout, just the odd squirm or physical gesture suggesting he wasn't particularly comfortable. Meanwhile, Hilm was motionless, and at one point I wondered if he even knew it was his go.
After Hilm had been reactivated, he decided to fold, only for Lamsa to surprise everyone by swiftly reaching for a stack of red 5k chips and putting Gary all in. Perhaps squeeze-playing, Gary paused for a moment and then folded.
Don't mess with the Bond villain, he vill crush you... like an ant.
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Annie Duke
In what might be the biggest pot of the Main Event so far, Huseyin Yilmaz opened for 4,200, Annie Duke reraised to 14,200 and Yilmaz called. The flop was . Yilmaz checked, Duke bet 16,000, Yilmaz immediately moved all in and Duke called.
Duke turned over for top set while Yilmaz showed .
"Pair the board, please, right away" begged Duke, remembering Yilmaz' earlier magic with his A-K against Joe Serock's A-A.
The turn was the , the river was the , and Duke dragged the monster pot, worth 205,000 and shot up to second overall in chips. Yilmaz was left with 135,000.
[user3511]
Phil Hellmuth: Short stack and poker icon
Thats the official word. Phil has taken time out from nursing his short stack to tell the assembled rail how well his plays the short stack:
[user46298]
Although there are three new players on the TV table, none of them has played a hand yet. The action (and I've already seen two preflop reraises) has been between Gus Hansen, Chris Bjorin, and Vicky Coren. Most recently Vicky called a preflop raise from Hansen, saying, "I'll pay you off now and fold on the flop..."
But what actually happened was a check-down from both players until the river with the board looking like: . At this point, Vicky bet out 13k and after a brief think, Hansen called. She showed her with a small club (can't quite see over the TV table rim) but two clubs plus three clubs equals a queen-high flush and she won the pot.
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, Lindgren fired out 14,000 on the turn and after his opponent took a long think, got a call. The river was the 
and Lindgren bet enough to set his opponent all in. After another few tortured moments in the tank, the young Brit gave it up. Lindgren flashed the 
as he dragged the pot. 
. Yilmaz checked, Duke bet 16,000, Yilmaz immediately moved all in and Duke called. 
for top set while Yilmaz showed 
. 
, the river was the 
, and Duke dragged the monster pot, worth 205,000 and shot up to second overall in chips. Yilmaz was left with 135,000.
with a small club (can't quite see over the TV table rim) but two clubs plus three clubs equals a queen-high flush and she won the pot.
