Main Event Day 1b | 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Los Angeles

11-13-2010 16:40 UTC-7

Tough Tables Gets Tougher

Chad Holloway

As players are eliminated, tables are broken and players assigned to vacant seats. Dwyte Pilgrim was at a fairly tough table to start the day alongside Mark Seif and Nick Binger, but that table has now been broke.

Unfortunately for Pilgrim, he has been moved to an even tougher table. In fact he has been moved to what could be the toughest table in the entire room. Pilgrim has joined Faraz Jaka, Maria Ho, Jose "Nacho" Barbero, and Isaac Baron over at Table 34. This'll certainly be an action table and worth keeping an eye on.

Tags: Dwyte Pilgrim Faraz Jaka Isaac Baron Jose Barbero Maria Ho Mark Seif Nick Binger

11-13-2010 16:50 UTC-7

Medic Gets Healthy

Chad Holloway

Vanessa Rousso limped under the gun and action folded all the way around to Nenad Medic in the small blind. He decided to call, as did the big blind, and the flop came down {6-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} . Medic immediately fired out a bet of 400 and both of his opponents folded. Medic, who had a rough start to the day, seems to have recovered nicely and is up to 56,000.

Tags: Vanessa Rousso Nenad Medic

11-13-2010 17:00 UTC-7

Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
	77,000 47,000	47,000
	42,000 -14,000	-14,000
Michael Martin	40,000
Matt Stout	39,000 9,000	9,000
	39,000 9,000	9,000
Kathy Liebert	39,000 9,000	9,000

	38,000 8,000	8,000
	38,000 8,000	8,000
Tim Begley	35,000 5,000	5,000
Nick Binger	32,000 2,000	2,000

Mark Seif	29,000 -1,000	-1,000

	28,000 -2,000	-2,000
Dwyte Pilgrim	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Vanessa Rousso	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Faraz Jaka	26,000 -15,000	-15,000

Jon Turner	25,000 -5,000	-5,000
Maria Ho	22,000 3,500	3,500

John Dolan	21,000 -9,000	-9,000
Bertrand Grospellier	18,000 -12,000	-12,000

Jean Gaspard	13,000 -17,000	-17,000

Jimmy Tran	11,000 -19,000	-19,000
Dan Heimiller	10,000

Charlie Hook	10,000 -20,000	-20,000
Marcello Del Grosso	4,000 -26,000	-26,000

Nacho Barbero	Busted

11-13-2010 17:06 UTC-7

PokerStars Pros Down

Chad Holloway

Both Jose "Nacho" Barbero and Bertrand Grospellier have been eliminated from the tournament.

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier Nacho Barbero

11-13-2010 17:10 UTC-7

Unabomber Steady

Chad Holloway

With about 4,300 in the pot, the hijack checked a {A-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} flop and Phil "Unabomber" Laak bet 2,100. The bet was enough to take down the pot and bring his stack back up to the starting stack of 30,000.

Tags: Phil Laak

11-13-2010 17:13 UTC-7

Player of the Year In the House

Chad Holloway

The World Series of Poker Player of the Year, Frank Kassela, is in the field today. In a recent hand a player in middle position raised to 525 and Kassela reraised to 1,400, which was enough to take down the hand. Kassela is slightly down with 29,000.

Tags: Frank Kassela

11-13-2010 17:22 UTC-7

Binger Hits the Turn

Chad Holloway

Action folded to Michael Binger on the button and he put in a small raise, which both blinds called. All three players checked the {K-Clubs} {J-Spades} {7-Diamonds} flop and the {2-Spades} hit the turn. David Williams, who was in the small blind and first to act, bet 700. After the big blind called, Binger put in a raise to 3,000. Williams quickly folded as did the big blind. Binger showed {2-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} for a turned set and increased his stack to right around 50,000.

Tags: Michael Binger David Williams

11-13-2010 17:26 UTC-7

Grinding in the Wrong Direction

Chad Holloway

The player in Seat 7 was in middle position and raised to 500. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who had fallen down to just 10,000 chips, called from the hijack. The big blind came along for the ride and the three watched the flop fall {3-Spades} {10-Spades} {2-Spades} .

The big blind checked, Seat 7 bet 1,000, Mizrachi called and the big blind folded as the dealer burned and turned the {6-Hearts} . Both players checked to the {5-Diamonds} on the river and Seat 7 checked to Mizrachi, who bet 1,100. Seat 7 reluctantly made the call and showed {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} , which turned out to be good against Mizrachi's {A-} {Q-} . Mizrachi is down to just 7,400.

Tags: Michael Mizrachi

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

11-13-2010 17:28 UTC-7

A Few More Chip Counts

Chad Holloway

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Ramdin	50,000 20,000	20,000

Will Failla	40,000 10,000	10,000

Kenny Nguyen	30,000
Allen Kessler	28,000 -2,000	-2,000

	25,000 -5,000	-5,000
Jonathan Little	18,500 -11,500	-11,500

Michael Mizrachi	7,400 -30,100	-30,100