2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
108
Prize
$750,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$4,700
Entries
716
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Lerner Leaps to 100,000

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

The board ran out {2-Clubs}{3-Spades}{5-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{3-Diamonds} and Lerner vaulted to about 90,000.

On the last hand of the level, Lerner busted an opponent. The board read {J-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{9-Spades} 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}{Q-Hearts} for a flush and his opponent couldn't beat it.

He is up to 107,000.

Tags: Aaron Lerner

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Friends Do Battle

Ross Santos
Ross Santos
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}{6-Spades}{5-Spades} 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 SuiedRonnie BardahRoss Santos

Small Loss for Suied

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}{7-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} 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

Slowly Consolidating

There are still seven tables of players in the poker room, down from the original fifteen. What's unusual is that a few tables in the front corner of the main tournament room have already been broken. Perhaps the tournament staff are intending to start moving tables en masse from the poker room to the main tournament room.

A few counts taken at random from the poker room include:

Amit Makhija - 23,000
Allen Kessler - 33,000

The Case of the Missing Card

Over at Table 54, stacked with Joe Cada, Christian Harder, Phil Collins, Ravi Raghavan, and David Levi, the floor was called over.

We rushed over to see what the fuss was about. Apparently, David Levi's second card was pitched under the rail of the table and couldn't be retrieved. After a few failed attempts at lifting the rail, the floor ruled that the hand would continue and the missing card would serve as the burn card.

The hand resulted in a walk for the big blind and the dealer switched to a new deck.

No Won-durrrr

Did Tom Dwan lose a bet?
Did Tom Dwan lose a bet?
Things don't seem to be going Tom "durrrr" Dwan's way so far today. He called a bet of 5,000 on the turn of a board that came {A-Spades} {3-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {3-Diamonds}, but folded for another 5,000 after the {10-Hearts} river. durrr's stack is down to about 17,000.

Losing the hand didn't stop durrrrr from asking his opponent about a recommended New York pizza joint, apparently picking up the thread of an earlier conversation.