Barry Greenstein didn't take long this afternoon to get his chips in the middle. With not even ten minutes elapsed in the tournament, Tyler Cornell raised to 2,200. Greenstein, sitting in the big blind, put all 23,000 of his chips at risk. Cornell made the call with pocket nines and had to duck Greenstein's . No such luck; the board came to double Greenstein up to 47,000.
David Steicke raised to 2,400 from under the gun and Nam Le made the call in the cutoff. The flop landed and Steicke led out for 2,400. Le thought for a long time before making the call. The turn was the and Steicke bet out again for 5,000, forcing a fold from Le.
"I just worked you out!" exclaimed Eric Assadourian.
Steicke replied, "Well write it on a piece of paper and we'll see if it's correct!"
Cards are in the air. Players are on four seven-handed tables. We will be playing today until nine players remain, which we expect to happen somewhere around Level 13. Despite what TD Danny McDonagh said last night, we will be redrawing at 24 players.