2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event Day 2 | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

04-08-2010 11:19 UTC-12

D'Angelo Equal-Opportunity Raider

[user140525]

D'Angelo (middle) takes some from Keating (in black shirt).

The always cheerful Ryan "G0lfa" D'Angelo was joking around and posing for photos with his neighbors. Ten seconds later, he'd switched to big-stack-bully mode. He raised to 5,600 from late position, and Alex Keating was the lone caller. The flop came {10-Hearts}

, and Ryan bet out 9,000. Keating called to see the {A-Clubs}

scare card on the turn. Both players checked. The river brought the {7-Diamonds}

, and D'Angelo dialed up the aggression with a 20,000-chip bet. Keating gave it up, and G0lfa's stack got even bigger.

Tags: Alex Keating Ryan D'Angelo

04-08-2010 11:25 UTC-12

The Last Break

[user75032]

Players have once again been sent on a fifteen-minute break. This is the last one of the day. There will be one more level of play when we return.

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 300

04-08-2010 11:44 UTC-12

Here We Go Again

[user75032]

Cards are back in the air. This is the last level of the night. 152 players remain.

04-08-2010 11:55 UTC-12

Ho Surrenders on Turn

[user75032]

Maria Ho's been hanging steady the last few levels but she's below average now after losing a heads-up pot. Ho, sitting with the button, bet 8,200 on a {2-Hearts}

flop and 9,500 on the {6-Spades}

turn. Her lone opponent, sitting to her right, called the flop bet and check-raised the turn bet to 30,500. Ho asked how much it was back to her, peeked back at her cards once, and then mucked.

Tags: Maria Ho

04-08-2010 12:00 UTC-12

Rousso Doubles

Mickey Doft

The player in the cutoff raised to 8,000 and Vanessa Rousso shoved for 34,700 on the button. The blinds folded and the player in the cutoff called.

Rousso was slightly ahead with {A-Clubs}

against her opponent's {K-Clubs}

. The board ran out {7-Spades}

and Rousso doubled to about 75,000.

Tags: Vaneesa Rousso

04-08-2010 12:00 UTC-12

Greenwood Doubles Through Wasicka

donpeters

Danny Suied starting off the action with a raise preflop to 7,000 from middle position. Max Greenwood was next to next and moved all in for 69,300. Action folded around to Paul Wasicka in the big blind and he asked for a count on Greenwood's stack. After the count was verified, Wasicka moved all in. Suied mucked his hand, leaving the other two heads up with Greenwood at risk.

Greenwood held two kings against Wasicka's two jacks. The board was clean for Greenwood when it came out {Q-Spades}

and he more than doubled up. Wasicka was left with 175,000 chips.

Tags: Danny Suied Max Greenwood Paul Wasicka

04-08-2010 12:06 UTC-12

Phillips Finds Value

[user75032]

Dennis Phillips is sitting two seats to the right of Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy at a table in the front of the room. That's made for some memorable moments, including a recent hand that started with a Phillips button raise to 7,000.

Josephy called from the big blind, then checked the {Q-Clubs}

flopped. Phillips checked behind. Josephy checked again on the {4-Hearts}

turn, drawing a 10,000-chip bet from Phillips. Josephy called.

Josephy checked one more time when the river blanked {2-Hearts}

. Phillips fired 20,000, then turned over top two pair {Q-Diamonds}

when Josephy called.

"Nice hand," Josephy said. He mucked his cards and then started talking to himself under his breath.

Tags: Cliff Josephy Dennis Phillips

04-08-2010 12:12 UTC-12

Selbst Crushing Souls

[user140525]

Vanessa Selbst has been steadily owning her table this level. She's jumped to the top of the chip counts, now sitting behind 570,000. In the last big hand, Clayton Mozdzen opened to 7,500, and Selbst reraised to 25,000 on the button. The small blind cold called, and Mozden called as well.

Flop: {9-Clubs}

- The small blind checked, and Mozdzen bet 28,700. Selbst asked him for a count of his stack, but he just waved his hand over it in Tiffany Michelle fashion. "I need an exact count," Selbst said, not messing around. He gave it to her (about 130,000), and she elected to call.

Turn: {8-Diamonds}

- Hard to find a more interesting turn card. Mozden checked, and Selbst slid out a big stack of T5,000 chips. It wasn't to long before Mozdzen's pair of jacks flashed on their way to the muck.

Tags: Vanessa Selbst

04-08-2010 12:22 UTC-12

What's the Count?

[user75032]

Floor decisions always provide an extra bit of excitement to the poker action -- and generally spark a great deal of discussion from players.

Here at Mohegan Sun (according to a floor summoned to a table after a hand), the house rule is that a player involved in a hand is entitled to an exact count of his opponent's chips if he requests it. This prompted some debate as to how the count is to be delivered: whether the dealer is required to count down the stack, whether the player is required to count down the stack, or some other method.

One player argued that he should not be required to do anything than show all of his chips to his opponent so that his opponent could eyeball them for himself. His theory was that counting chips is a skill required for live poker.

Most other players at the table disagreed, but the specific issue of how the count was to be delivered (if requested) was never explicitly resolved.

"You could ask every floor in here and get a different answer from each of them," said another player at the table.