Eric Le Goff made it 700 and Martin Bader called from the big blind.
"I bet I have the best hand." Bader said.
The two men saw a flop of saw Le Goff continue for 1,000. Bader made it 2,200 and Le Goff called. The turn of saw both men check and they did the same on the river. Le Goff turned over and Bader .
"Oh, I knew I had the best hand pre-flop." said Bader. Le Goff raked in the pot, however and the High Roller champion who won £30,000 yesterday evening, is off to a good start.
Chris Moorman enjoyed a solid day at the High Roller felt yesterday, but it would be fair to say that his Main Event experience has been more up and down...or rather down and up.
First, Team 888Poker ambassador Moorman was all-in on a flop of and had for Broadway against the caller's pocket jacks. But the board ran out with consecutive deuces on turn and river to give his opponent a full house.
Buying back in, Moorman has landed on the table of fellow Arsenal supporter and British professional Steve Watts. In their first hand together, we joined the action with Watts c-betting the flop of for 1,300. Moorman called to a turn of and both men checked. The river of saw Watts make it 2,625, but when Moorman made it 8,100, Watts folded.
Michael Mizrachi has started to build an impressive stack at his Day 1b Main Event table here at the 888poker London Live Festival.
The elite No Hold'em player who calls Ohio homemade it 1,600 from the small blind and was called by the player on the button. The flop of saw Mizrachi continue for 2,000.
"That's not a bad flop for me." he said, but he was ignored by the big blind player, who immediately raised all-in for 11,125.
"I'm drawing." said Mizrachi's opponent after Mizrachi called.
"You don't want to be drawing." confirmed Mizrachi as he turned over for the nut flush draw. He was up against .
The slightly improbable landed on the turn, meaning Mizrachi had his nut flush, and the river was meaningless. 'The Grinder' has well over the chip average.
Both Chris and Katie Moorman have been busted within minutes of each other.
Katie Moorman got into a sticky situation at the feature table when her suited K-T got into trouble into trouble on a king-high flop against a set of jacks. Katie had the flush draw too and was unable find any help to eliminate that player. She got her last chips into the middle after the dinner break with against and saw paint on the flop brush her out of the field.
Chris Moorman busted when he shoved all-in for 14 big blinds with and was re-shoved on by fellow Team 888Poker ambassador Sofia Lovgren with pocket eights. That all-in was then called by a player with pocket kings and they held to bust Moorman and leave Lovgren seriously short-stacked.
But don't worry, you can get more from Chris in his New Book!!!
Michael Mizrachi has enjoyed the best day of any of our players so far during the 888Poker London Live Main Event Day 1b.
The American known as 'The Grinder' has ground his opponents into dust so far and has almost as many chips as the overnight chipleader from Day 1a Andrea Volpi did after all nine levels. So how has he done it?
"I registered a couple of levels late, then managed to get up to 150,000. Then I went for a swim."
Mizrachi is modest. He didn't pop for a quick spin around a jacuzzi or paddle in a puddle. He went to swim for 2 hours 30 minutes at the nearby Olympic Swimming Pool that is part of Stratford's Aquapark here in London. The fitness fanatic generally tries to complete 3,200 metres of a swimming session. He left the action nearly two levels before the dinner break. He just returned (late) and proceeded to bust another player to accumulate by far the chip lead in the room.
"Does the leader win a prize or something?" Mizrachi asked.
The answer being: no, apart from the grudging, envious respect of his attendant peers.
"I'll have 420,000 by the end of the night...or nothing."
Length by length, Mizrachi is pulling away from the pack.
Alexander Kacharov has overtaken Michael Mizrachi as the biggest chip-stack in the room, with 280,600 after being all-in against two players on a flop of .
Kacharov held for a set of fives, but was up against and . The turn of gave his opponent the straight, but the river gave Kacharov Quad fives and left pocket aces in last place.
Kacharov shares the felt with Tom Middleton (78,000) and Sam Grafton (72,000) as well as Michael Harb (25,000) and Terry Jordon (201,000)
Tom Middleton, High Roller runner-up, laughing earlier on Day 1b. Every so often, the joke is on every player in poker.
Tom Middleton lost the chip lead he had over his table in one hand, up against Terry Jordon on a table also featuring Sam Grafton.
"Terry had pocket aces and hit top set. That's fortunate!" Middleton told us as he volunteered reasons why he lost over 100,000 chips to the ebullient Jordon. "What are the chances of both of those things happening?"
The answer came from Grafton at the other end of the table.
"He did say 'I have the nuts' on the turn. That was the clue for me." Grafton teased to laughter from the table.
"And then he bet 30,000 on the river and said 'I can beat anything you have.'" Grafton continued, "Apart from that, though, he looked weak."
Middleton grins and blushes at the same time.
"I have trust issues." he jokes.
Jordon smiles too, needing to say nothing to be on the right side of the gag. He has 205,000 chips, almost three times Middleton's (or Grafton's) stack.
Team 888Poker Pro Dominik Nitsche had a fairly disastrous High Roller tournament, but is still in the hunt for the London Live Main Event title. He told us about his time so far in England's capital.
"The High Roller couldn't have gone much worse. I'm hoping to run better in the Main." he said, but also confirmed that he's been having fun pranking his new Team 888Poker team-mate Natalie Hof.
"It's been great. I used to live in London, but I didn't like it as much as where I live now in Edinburgh. I have friends there and I love being there."
Nitsche spends a huge chunk of his time on the road, of course, but has no plans to slow down this year.
"I'll be going to Manila and Macau for some big tournaments, and then Prague."
Nitsche isn't focused on titles like winning a WPT or EPT as opposed to just winning tournaments. He clearly loves the action and a shot at glory and he's still going for that in the Main Event with 75 players left. With only 20 into Day 2 from yesterday's thrilling Day 1a, everyone has Andrea Volpi's overnight lead of 302,000 as a sighter.
Shah Raza was all-in with the biggest stack after Tom Middleton opened, and with Middleton and Terry Jordon calling for their tournament lives, at least one player was going to end the day cursing their luck.
Raza:
Jordon:
Middleton:
With Sam Grafton actively and vocally anti-railing his friend Middleton, the flop came giving Raza the best hand and Jordon hope.
"Yes! The queen. We love to see that." shouted Grafton amid the chaos of raucous laughter.
The turn was another queen, the and the river a . Shah did not have the most equity going into the play-out, but he ended up with the best hand.
Grafton cheered and amusingly asked Middleton to leave the table, while Jordon was out too, to considerably less amusement on his part than Middleton showed. But then, Tom Middleton finished second in the High Roller here last night for £18,400!
Shah Raza has 159,700 and is right back in with a chance of winning the 888Poker London Live Main event!
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