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04-07-2010 08:58 UTC-12

Small Loss for Suied

donpeters

Danny Suied raised under the gun and two players made the call. The first was in middle position and the other in the hijack.

The flop was {J-Spades}

and Suied continued with his aggression, firing 1,400. The middle-position player called and then hijack seat folded.

The turn card put the {9-Hearts}

out there. Suied checked and his opponent fired 2,300. Suied let his hand go and dropped to 17,600 chips.

Tags: Danny Suied

04-07-2010 08:55 UTC-12

Battle of the Team PokerStars Pros

Mickey Doft

With about 9,500 in the pot and the board reading {J-Clubs}

, Gavin Griffin bet 6,000. Greg Raymer thought for a few moments before making the call, mucking when Griffin tabled {J-Spades}

.

Griffin is up to 39,000 while Raymer dropped to 23,000.

Tags: Gavin Griffin Greg Raymer

04-07-2010 08:53 UTC-12

Interestingly enough, Ronnie Bardah's table broke recently and he moved over to Table 3 on the opposite end of the room. To his immediate is his good friend Danny Suied and then to his immediate right is another good friend Ross Santos. Three ducks in a row, what are the odds?

Bardah opened a recent pot from under the gun to 675. Santos called from middle position and the big blind called. The flop came down {A-Clubs}

and he big blind checked. Bardah fired 675 and Santos made it 1,800 to go. The big blind mucked and Bardah made the call.

The turn brought the {A-Spades}

to the board and Bardah tapped the table to move action over to Santos. He fired 2,500 and Bardah folded, winning this battle of friends. He showed just the {4-Spades}

after the pot was pushed his way.

Santos moved up to 34,000 and Bardah dropped back to 26,000.

Tags: Danny Suied Ronnie Bardah Ross Santos

04-07-2010 08:37 UTC-12

Back To It

Mickey Doft

The players have returned and Level 5 is underway.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

04-07-2010 08:23 UTC-12

Breaking News

[user140525]

Players on the second 15-minute break of the day. Back in a flash to play level 5.

04-07-2010 08:18 UTC-12

Lerner Leaps to 100,000

Mickey Doft

Aaron Lerner just doubled up and appears to be the chip leader heading into the break.

The pot was raised to 750 by an early-position player and was three-bet to 2,200 by a middle-position player. Aaron Lerner popped it to 10,000 in late position and the original raiser folded. The three-bettor shoved all in and Lerner called immediately. He held {A-Clubs}

and got it in for 43,575 against his opponent's {K-Hearts}

.

The board ran out {2-Clubs}

and Lerner vaulted to about 90,000.

On the last hand of the level, Lerner busted an opponent. The board read {J-Hearts}

and it was checked to Lerner on the river. He bet enough to put his opponent all in and after a short tank, his opponent called for the rest of his stack. Lerner tabled {K-Hearts}

for a flush and his opponent couldn't beat it.

He is up to 107,000.

Tags: Aaron Lerner

04-07-2010 08:13 UTC-12

Table Break Drama Continues

[user140525]

The already-eliminated Will the Thrill stirs things up at Gavin Smith's table before it broke.

We mentioned earlier that many of the players seated in the poker room are unhappy because all of those tables are full of people who registered last night and this morning or who won super satellites yesterday. That means none of them are online qualifiers and many of them are part of the fashionably late, high roller crowd. Once the always fashionable, always high-rolling Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler pointed out the disparity in table draws, the grumbling spread quickly.

Now a few tables there have been broken, but not in any discernible order. Some of the most vocal tables (though not Allen Kessler's) were among those broken quickly. The players left in the poker room started to complain after the table with Gavin Smith, David Williams, Shaun Deeb, and Lars Bonding was broken with no explanation. Vanessa Selbst asked Floor Supervisor Christopher Sevick how tables were being broken, and first he said that the break order was random. That's pretty unusual for a live tournament. Selbst expressed concern that players at really tough tables (basically every table in the poker room) could bribe tournament staff to be "randomly" chosen to break next.

Then Sevick changed his story to stay that rather than a random break order, there was no order at all and that he didn't know what was happening and was waiting for orders. "I don't have any information," Sevick said. "My hands are tied." You can imagine the reaction players had to this news.

Ten minutes later, there were still no clearer answers. PokerNews asked Sevick how he chose which tables should be the first three to break. He said that he was simply told by higher ups to break those table numbers and given no further information or explanation. We'll keep you posted if the double talk starts making sense.

04-07-2010 08:12 UTC-12

The Real Action

[user75032]

If it's a poker tournament that Phil Ivey is playing, he's booking action. Ivey's flavor du jour is Tiger Woods to win the Masters. He booked action with Bill Gazes and David Singer at +555.

04-07-2010 08:02 UTC-12

Glantz Sees Triple to Double

[user140525]

Matt Glantz and Tom "KingsofCards" Marchese had already built a sizable pot by the time Glantz moved all in on the river for 13,500. Marchese called to pay off Matt's set of deuces. Tom, who said he flopped two pair, was down to 15,000 after the hand. He's got a lot of work to do if he wants to win both the first and second NAPT Main Events.

Tags: Matt Glantz Tom Marchese