While there's always the chance Scotty was on vacation and stumbled in and saw some familiar faces, it's probably a safer bet that we'll see Mr. Nguyen on the felt as part of tomorrow's Day 1b field.
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Open
EPT Barcelona Open Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€4,952,000
Entries
619
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 619
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While there's always the chance Scotty was on vacation and stumbled in and saw some familiar faces, it's probably a safer bet that we'll see Mr. Nguyen on the felt as part of tomorrow's Day 1b field.
and there was just under 1,500 in the pot. Chad Brown was first to act against two opponents and pushed out a bet of 1,200 from middle position. Both of his opponents called and it was on to the turn.The
hit the turn and Brown fired again, this time 3,000. His middle position opponent folded but the player on the button called all in for his last 2,825. The players showed:Brown:
Opponent:
Brown's queens were best but his opponent had plenty of outs including the
that hit the river. Brown doubled his opponent up, but is still a force with just over 22,000 chips.
board, one opponent called and Ryan folded. On the 8h river, the caller led out for 2,100, but as Barny was thinking about his decision, the dealer called out for the "floor" and whispered into the tournament director's ear. After a brief pause and a selection of different hand gestures, the TD announced that a string bet had taken place and that the bet would only be 1,000, the first chip to hit the felt."I don't know what happened," observed an intrigued as always Greg Raymer, "but I didn't notice anything suspicious."
After a brief pause, Barny flicked in the call, to which his opponent leapt from his seat, hurled his cards across the table and yelled "That's bullshit! I don't know what you do here in Europe, but that was not a string bet."
With Barny still clutching onto his cards, his opponent continued to roar. "That's a bad ruling! I would rather lose more doing what I wanted to do." "I was going to call anyhow," declared Barny, as his cards entered the muck.
At that point, the TD ordered the dealer to retrieve the cards from the muck, and reveal what was ultimately a
. "You're not calling," he argued. "I was," protested Barny.
flop. But a leading bet of 4,000 was more than enough to take the pot, leaving the Swede and former WSOP finalist with a depleted stack of 6,850.
