A six-way limped pot delivered a flop. After one of the limpers bet 4,200, Kurt Jewell popped it to 10,100. The player in the small blind put in a check-raise shove for 64,400, forcing a quick from the original bettor. Jewell counted out the chips and slid them forward for a call, revealing .
He needed to get there against his opponent's and while the turn didn't do it, he picked up a few extra outs. However, the river was not one of them and Jewell is now below the starting stack.
Three players, including DeepStacks Pro Mike Matusow, saw a flop of . The trio checked, and the turn brought another queen - the . Matusow led out for 4,200, and only one player called.
The turn was the , Matusow checked, and the player behind him checked as well.
"I missed, Mike," he announced, tabling .
"Wow," Matusow said, tabling . "That's a f***ing lot to miss."
Matusow raked in the pot, and is now up to around 70,000 chips.
As we were watching the action at another table, Nesrine Kourdourli came over to a friend. "I'm out," she said.
"Really??" he replied.
Having counted her at about 165,000 not long ago, somebody at her table was going to have a good amount of chips. David Stefanski, who had a healthy stack of about 150,000 last time we counted him, now had about 330,000 in front of him and was kind enough to give us the details.
After a player in early position opened to 2,200, Stefanski called in the cutoff. Kourdourli called from the button, Mike Dentale called from the big blind, and the flop came down with two clubs. Dentale checked to the original raiser who bet 3,800. Both Stefanski and Kourdourli called, Dentale folded, and the hit the turn, putting two spades on the board as well.
The original raiser checked, Stefanski bet 10,500, but Kourdourli raised to 24,000. The original raiser ducked out of the way and Stefanski near clicked it back to 38,000. A call from Kourdourli landed the on the river where Stefanski bet about 28,000, leading to a Kourdourli shove for roughly 115,000.
Stefanski called with for a set, besting Kourdourli's hand to win the massive pot.
James Campbell and Bryan Leskowitz were heads up on a board of . Campbell checked, and Leskowitz tossed out 12,600. Campbell tanked for the better part of 90 seconds, then flashed before folding.
"All I do is flop sets," Leskowitz said, grinning.
Day 1 of the 2012 DeepStacks Poker Tour Mohegan Sun National Championship is in the books. After 10 one-hour levels, roughly 120 players remain from the 242 entrants that registered throughout the day. On top of the counts is David Stefanski, who bagged 348,100 chips. That looks to be a good 150,000 chips clear of his nearest competitor. Stefanski quietly amassed a big stack before winning a gigantic pot against fellow big stack Nesrine Kourdourli during Level 10.
DeepStacks Pro was well represented in the field today as Mike Matusow (140,200), Chip Jett (56,600), Darrel Dier (39,900), and Tristan Wade (25,800) all made it through on their first buy-in. Arguably the biggest DeepStacks name, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, went 0-for-3 today but with the option to re-enter until the beginning of Day 2, we expect Mizrachi back on the felt tomorrow.
Other notables who will be back in action on Sunday include Vanessa Selbst (162,600), Jared Jaffee (157,000), David Paredes (133,700), Matt Affleck (133,300), Aaron Massey (100,300), Ashton Griffin (92,300), Matt Glantz (83,300), Kurt Jewell (78,700), and Scott Baumstein (67,300).
Among those who busted on Day 1 and opted not to re-enter were Amnon Filippi, Daryl Jace, Victor Ramdin, Brian Lamanna, and Dave Inselberg.
Day 2 will begin at noon local time tomorrow, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews for all of the exciting action. Until then, good night from Connecticut!