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.
2010 NAPT Venetian
2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2010 NAPT Venetian
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$4,750
Entries
872
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 872
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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.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
. 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.
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.
only to see his lone opponent move all in for 28,500 total. Hachem thought, and thought, and thought some more. It was a solid two or three minutes in the tank before Hachem reluctantly surrendered his hand.Hachem's holding on at around 25,000 but hasn't been able to get much going so far.
The two players took a flop of
and the cutoff checked. Phillips stayed on the gas with a bet of 7,800. His opponent made the call.The turn card was the
and again, the cutoff seat tapped the table, moving the action to Phillips. The former EPT Barcelona winner fired 17,100 and this time, his opponent folded, letting Phillips scoop the pot.Phillips is up to about 110,000 chips.
"Anyone over 200 yet?" he inquired. We haven't seen any 200,000-chip stacks yet but with a half hour to go it's time for the final push. The shortest of the short will be looking to double up or go home while the big stacks will be looking to punish the passivity of the players who want to just coast into Day 2 from here.
One of the four of them raises every hand and everyone insta-mucks as if they've already clicked the "fold" box. And on to the next hand. Occasionally one of the other players at the table works up the courage to raise, and the guys take turns three-betting to make sure no one gets carried away. This is their table. Don't even bother.
Maria Ho
Brent Hanks
Jon Friedberg
Gavin Griffin
Thayer Rasmussen
