"He was in the small blind, and he threw in an oversized chip without saying, 'Raise'".
"Then it is just a call," ruled the floor. The big blind was a bit ticked off, and he adamantly disagreed with the ruling. Rachel repeated her story verbatim, and the floorman repeated his ruling as well, and that was finally that. Flop time. It came
, and the small blind led out with a bet of 1,000, which was good enough to win the pot right there.Just as we'd managed to pick our way through the crowd back to the far corner of the room, we heard, "Floor, Table 14!" again. Sigh. Hustling back over, we were only imagining what the argument was this time. Rachel had the answer.
"The players are wondering if it's possible to close the door. First it was the fire, and now there's cigar smoke wafting in. Is it possible to shut the door?"
The floor went to investigate, but it looks like the door will remain open for ease of access and safety measures. The wood-burning fireplace in the lobby is indeed going great guns, and coupled with the gentlemen puffing stogies in the lounge chairs, there is some noticable smokiness near the door where Table 14 lives.
It's like poker in the 1980's in here, a thick cloud of smoke starting to accumulate above the players' heads.



and Vos was thrilled to be ahead with 
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flop and then called 1,500 from his opponent. They proceeded to check down the
turn and
river before Hollink flipped
. His opponent could only boast that classic calling hand
and the first ever Dutchman to win a WSOP bracelet is up to 38,000.

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and [Removed:198] is moving in the right direction heading into the latter stages of Day 1b.


hit the river, Pascha fired 20,000 into the middle, having his opponent covered. A quick all in call led to Pascha shouting across the room in celebration as he tabled
and sent his chips over to Pascha, now up to about 130,000.