Platinum recording artist Nelly spent some time with Gloria before he sat down to play on Day 1b, here at the EPT Grand Final. Unfortunately, he's since busted from the tournament, but is currently hanging out around the poker room, mingling with some of the players. We've got a reporter on Jeff Madsen v. Nelly battle watch. Keep your fingers crossed.
vs. 
. No spike of the overs and she's on the rail. "At least I can drink freely tonight," she said, looking on the bright side.
and Binger check-called 6,000. The turn was the 
and action was the same, but 10,000. It was on the 
river that Shipley's all in move for 19,275 really sent Binger into the tank. WAY into the tank. It took six minutes for Binger to count out the chips, weigh them in his hand, remov his sunglasses, then his headphones, and pay off Shipley's 
for two pair.
flop, Gino Alacqua moved all in for 17,000, a massive overbet to the pot. Unfortunately, his opponent in the hand was a rather tipsy Peter Hedlund, who started poking around in the pot. The floor was called over to tell him not to touch the pot. He stopped actually touching it, but counted it out, chip by chip, making stabbing gestures towards it with his finger. Eventually he finished. "How much is it?" called out a railer. "No f***ing idea," replied Hedlund, and proceeded to dwell for a long time, both players now out of their seats and staring intently at the middle of the table. 
face up. Alacqua showed him just an enigmatic 
.
vs. the big blind's 
. He had raised to 3,450 from early position, and was never going anywhere after the big blind put him all in. It had looked like he was coming back to the danger zone, but now he'll just be back around his starting stack of 30,000.
