2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event Day 1 | 2010 NAPT Venetian

02-20-2010 14:29 UTC-12

Recent Eliminations

[user140525]

Several big names called it a night already. Those no longer with us include:

Shaun Deeb
Jeff Sarwer
Gavin Smith
Justin Rollo

02-20-2010 14:26 UTC-12

Odds and Ends, Level 6 Edition

[user75032]

We can't find J.J. Liu or David Benyamine. It seems both are early casualties.

As previously noted, Phil Hellmuth has arrived. With a 30,000-chip starting stack, he's not really much worse off for having missed the first five levels.

Dennis Phillips seems to be resting his eyes in between hands at one of the outer tables.

Andrew Brown's stack, which had climbed as high as 90,000, is all the way back down to 40,000. He check-raised the turn on a {7-Diamonds}

board, then bet 15,000 on the {4-Clubs}

river. His {4-Spades}

missed a spade flush but made bottom two pair; it was no good against {9-Diamonds}

.

"The way you were doing all that talking," said Brown's opponent, "I didn't think you were bluffing."

"Your read was right," Brown replied. But that was little consolation for his diminished stack.

Tags: Andrew Brown David Benyamine Dennis Phillips JJ Liu

02-20-2010 14:24 UTC-12

Schelger Lets One Go

[user140525]

A player in early position opened to 1,200, and in the cutoff, Shane Schleger made it 3,600 to go. Action folded back to the original raiser, who asked Schleger how much he had behind. About 22k. The guy threw out three brown 10,000 chips.

"I have no idea what those are," said Schleger. He took a long moment to consider putting his tournament life at risk, finally folding {J-Diamonds}

face up.

"Nice laydown," said his opponent.

"Never laid that hand down in my life! In my life!" joked Schleger.

Tags: Shane Schleger

02-20-2010 14:20 UTC-12

The Daniel and Phil Show

[user140525]

Phil Hellmuth has finally arrived and like a homing beacon has attracted all of the tv cameras in the building. Daniel Negreanu is only a few tables away and keeps running over between hands to discuss terms of a prop bet.

Negreanu started out offering Hellmuth 8:1 against Hellmuth winning a bracelet in a non-hold'em even at this year's WSOP. Phil countered with 10:1 and Negreanu accepted. Now they're arguing over how much to wager.

Sitting quietly at Hellmuth's table, Kathy Liebert piped up, "What odds to I get?" "You?" laughed Negreanu. "35:1." Negreaunu's way too smart to bet against Kathy.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Kathy Liebert Phil Hellmuth

02-20-2010 14:10 UTC-12

Smith Gets Boosted

donpeters

Matt Graham raised from early position to 1,025 before a player in middle position reraised to 3,200. A young woman behind the reraising called and then action folded to Justin "BoostedJ" Smith in the big blind. Smith took his time and then put in a four-bet to 10,600. Graham then folded, but the next player that made it 3,200 called. The young woman was next up and she moved a tall stack of chips into the middle and was all in. Smith called off his stack and the player in between them folded.

Smith tabled two kings -- {K-Hearts}

-- and was ahead of his opponent's pocket jacks -- {J-Spades}

.

The board ran out {Q-Clubs}

and Smith made a full house to win the big pot. He was all in for just under 22,000 and now has nearly 60,000 total.

Tags: "BoostedJ"Justin Smith

02-20-2010 13:58 UTC-12

Brown Shows One

donpeters

Men "The Master" Nguyen limped from the hijack seat and then Adnrew "Browndog19" Brown raised from the button to 1,250. Nguyen made the call.

The flop came down {6-Spades}

and Nguyen checked to the preflop aggressor. Brown fired 1,850 and Nguyen mucked his hand. Brown showed just the {7-Spades}

and scooped the pot.

Tags: "Browndog19""The Master"Andrew Brown Men Nguyen

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

02-20-2010 13:47 UTC-12

Cold Deck Marks the End of Khan

[user75032]

Some times the way the cards come out, there's no way to avoid going broke. That's what happened to Hevad Khan when he took on Danny Wong on one of tables in the salon. Wong started things off with a middle-position pre-flop raise to 750. Khan, two seats to Wong's left, re-raised to 2,100, clearing out the rest of the field. Wong called.

A flop of {A-Diamonds}

would be Khan's downfall. Wong checked, then check-raised Khan's 3,500-chip bet to 8,000. Khan called.

Both players checked the {8-Diamonds}

turn. When the river fell {Q-Hearts}

, Wong splashed 30,000 chips into the pot, enough to set Khan all in. Khan didn't take long to call, but his top two pair, {A-Spades}

, had been brutally out-flopped by Wong's set of sevens, {7-Diamonds}

. Wong collected the pot and Khan's scalp. Khan is now out.

Wong has climbed to about 89,000 in chips.

Tags: Danny Wong Hevad Khan

02-20-2010 13:36 UTC-12

Brown Misses and Bluff Fails

donpeters

Just moments after having a ton of chips handed to him from a player bluffing, Andrew Brown was involved in another pot. This time it was Brown doing the bluffing and losing the chips.

Brown raised preflop to 8000 from middle position and the small blind three-bet to 2,150. Brown made the call, claiming, "I'm going to suck out."

The flop came down {6-Clubs}

and the small blind fired 4,000. Brown made the call.

The turn card was the {J-Spades}

and Brown fired 8,400 after his opponent checked to him. The small blind made the call.

The river completed the board with the {K-Diamonds}

and the small blind checked. Brown bet 13,700 which was enough to put his opponent all in. The player made the call quickly with the {A-Hearts}

and Brown mucked his hand.

"I missed," said Brown.

Tags: "Browndog19"Andrew Brown

02-20-2010 13:31 UTC-12

Phillips Fluctuating

donpeters

Carter Phillips raised from early position to 775 and the hijack seat called. The flop came down {8-Clubs}

and Phillips fired a continuation bet of 1,025. His opponent raised to 3,000 and got Phillips off the hand.

Despite the small loss, Phillips is still on roughly 80,000 chips and one of the bigger stacks in the room. He's been fluctuating up and down between 75,000 and 100,000 in the past level.

Tags: Carter Phillips