We arrived in time to find 9,000 already in the middle with Sadman Shefan and Sam Greenwood engaged in the hand. The board read and Shefan checked over to Greenwood who bet what sounded like 4,800. Shefan replied by check-raising all in for 11,050 total, sending Greenwood into the tank.
After just over a minute, Greenwood dropped out a call, prompting Shefan to tap the table. Shefan tabled {d} for a busted gutshot draw and jack-high, allowing Greenwood to score the elimination with .
With this victory, Greenwood's stack is now up to 65,000.
London has served as a useful muse to countless musicians over the years, each seeking, in three and a half minutes, to say something of the city's spirit and bestow this wisdom, musically, on the public for about 99p. It's amazing what you can say with a guitar and a backing track, to people prepared to listen.
So when the track played it was to set the scene for the day, a song about London and how great it was, with a jaunty beat and no trace of anything salubrious. But who was it exactly? The PokerStars Blog reports:
With late registration open until the start of Day 2 we're already up to 370 total players for Day 1b. As of right now we've lost 19 players and that means 351 are currently playing poker in the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.
There was on open to 600 from an early position player which Ludovic Geilich called and then faced a raise from a player in late position. The original opener folded but Geilich decided to put the pressure back on with raise to 3,500. Action was back on his opponent who put out another raise to 6,400.
Geilich went into the tank for a couple of minutes and carefully counted his remaining 12,000 stack. At the end of his deliberations Geilich decided to respect the aggression and let his hand go. Not the best of starts for a player who is dangerous with chips but can’t seem to get anything going so far today.
Dave Ulliott at the same table is faring no better and is down to 6,225 at the start of level three.
Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain opened under-the-gun for 400 and got one caller, Leonard John Readle on the button. They saw a flop of and Blain check-called a bet of 600 as Readle started talking to him about the range of hands he might have. The turn was the and Blain checked again as Readle kept up the chatter and bet 1,100. When Blain called Readle said, “Really?”
The river was the and a last check from Blain saw a bet of 3,500 hit the felt. A lot of chatter from Readle saw Blain turn over the and fold. He wouldn't take the bet that Readle was offering that he had ace-king, keeping his money firmly in his pocket. Readle couldn't resist and showed him his prompting Blain to say, "I thought I was trapping, I was drawing dead."
Just then Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree arrived to sit to Readle's right. He took a swig of his pint and said, "I've got no chance now."
Last night Anatoly Filatov bagged up the chip lead with 173,900 and right now Steven Watts is on pace to eclipse that number by a huge margin as he already sits on 120,000 chips after two levels.
Just now we saw on the table when Gianfranco Visalli had a bet of 7,625 out in front of him. Steven Watts had pushed enough chips forward to put Visalli all in, and after about two minutes he made the call for his tournament life.
Visalli:
Watts:
The river was the and Visalli was knocked out right before the first break.
and Shefan checked over to Greenwood who bet what sounded like 4,800. Shefan replied by check-raising all in for 11,050 total, sending Greenwood into the tank.
{d} for a busted gutshot draw and jack-high, allowing Greenwood to score the elimination with 
.
and Blain check-called a bet of 600 as Readle started talking to him about the range of hands he might have. The turn was the 
and Blain checked again as Readle kept up the chatter and bet 1,100. When Blain called Readle said, “Really?”
and a last check from Blain saw a bet of 3,500 hit the felt. A lot of chatter from Readle saw Blain turn over the 
and fold. He wouldn't take the bet that Readle was offering that he had ace-king, keeping his money firmly in his pocket. Readle couldn't resist and showed him his 
prompting Blain to say, "I thought I was trapping, I was drawing dead."
and Visalli was knocked out right before the first break.
