donpeters
After a player raised to 2,200 from under the gun, Bob Lauria called from the next seat and then the button called as well. Also making the preflop call was the small blind, bringing four players to the flop.
The flop came down and everyone checked. After the fell on the turn, it seemed like no one wanted the pot as they all checked again. The river card was the and prompted a bet of 5,000 from the small blind. Only Lauria made the call.
The small blind tabled the for two pair, aces and eights, with a jack kicker. Lauria mucked his hand and dropped down to 55,000.
donpeters
Jimmy Fricke
After calling a preflop raise, Jimmy Fricke was in position versus one player on the flop of . His opponent bet 4,000 and Fricke made the call.
The turn was the and the player led for 8,000 into Fricke. Fricke folded his hand and slipped to 100,000, but is still one of the bigger stacks in the room.
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The tournament is on the slightest of pauses to allow the green (25) chips to be colored off of each of the remaining tables. As soon as that's completed we'll be on to the last level of the day.
donpeters
Jon "PearlJammer" Turner raised to 1,400 and the two blinds made the call. The flop came down and action checked over to Turner. He fired 1,900 and his opponents folded.
Turner's built his stack up to 86,000 chips here so far on Day 1.
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Adam Katz
We caught up with Adam "akat11" Katz and Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko staring at a board that read with about 15,000 in the pot. Eventually both checked to see the river: .
Katz checked, and Timoshenko bet 6,600. Katz took his time, eventually tossing in a call. He looked disgusted with himself when Timoshenko turned up for a rivered two pair. Yevgeniy was up 55,000 after the hand.
[user75032]
As we were wandering through the back portion of the poker room, a colleague asked if Phil Hellmuth busted. We turned to his table and saw Danny Wong sitting in his seat. Naturally, this drew our curiosity.
According to Kathy Liebert, "Caesar" did indeed meet his untimely demise. "Phil had queens. He put Eric [Levesque] on aces. So he called," said Leibert. She added that Hellmuth called Daniel Negreanu over to the table before calling to tell Daniel, "I used to be able to make a good fold in this spot."
All of the chips went in on a ten-high flop. Hellmuth's pocket queens did not improve against Levesque's pocket aces. Once the river was down, the Poker Brat beat a hasty retreat out of the room.
Perhaps somewhat charitably (although with Hellmuth long departed it didn't matter much), Leibert told Levesque, "I would have called you with queens in that spot as well. Especially if I were him."
donpeters
Shawn Buchanan raised from middle position to 1,400. Greg Raymer just three-bet Buchanan's preflop the hand prior to this one to win the pot, but this time he just flat-called. The small blind called and then Maria Ho was in the big blind and called as well.
The four players took a flop of and the two blinds checked to Buchanan. He fired 2,000 and Raymer folded. The small blind and Ho also folded, allowing Buchanan to chip up to 40,000.
and everyone checked. After the 
fell on the turn, it seemed like no one wanted the pot as they all checked again. The river card was the 
and prompted a bet of 5,000 from the small blind. Only Lauria made the call.
for two pair, aces and eights, with a jack kicker. Lauria mucked his hand and dropped down to 55,000.
. His opponent bet 4,000 and Fricke made the call.
and the player led for 8,000 into Fricke. Fricke folded his hand and slipped to 100,000, but is still one of the bigger stacks in the room.
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and action checked over to Turner. He fired 1,900 and his opponents folded.
on a board of 
.
with about 15,000 in the pot. Eventually both checked to see the river: 
.
and the two blinds checked to Buchanan. He fired 2,000 and Raymer folded. The small blind and Ho also folded, allowing Buchanan to chip up to 40,000.
