We walked up to the turn on a board that read . Action was heads up, and Ashton Griffin checked. Daniel Negreanu put out a bet of 35,000, only to see Griffin check-raise to 83,000 total. Negreanu tanked and called, and both players check-checked the river.
Griffin waited to see Negreanu's before mucking his hand, and that pot puts Kid Poker right up to 350,000 here as Level 1 winds down. Griffin is at about 128,000 now.
David "Bakes" Baker has just taken his seat at Table 4, Seat 8. He arrived and showed the dealer his ID, promptly raising to 3,000 under the gun on his first hand of the tournament. Action passed around to Scott Seiver in the small blind.
"What's going on here?" he asked rhetorically.
"I came here to fire off," Bakes answered with a smirk.
"I swear, like, all of the late reg's have sat down and just fired off. With that, Seiver made the call, and the two went heads up. The flop came , and Seiver's leading bet of 5,550 was enough to pacify the new kid on the block.
From the small blind, Daniel Negreanu raised to 3,000, and Vivek Rajkumar three-bet big, making it 16,000 from the big blind. Negreanu called after some time, and the flop came . Check-check to the turn, and now Negreanu led out with 20,000 chips. Rajkumar didn't waste much time calling, and the landed on the river. Negreanu slowed down now with a check, and he more or less snap-folded to Rajkumar's 52,000-chip bet.
James Obst raised to 3,000 and David "Bakes" Baker called. Phil Laak called from the small blind and Masa Kagawa called from the big blind.
The flop came down and everyone checked to see the fall on the turn. "Oh, all right," said Laak and fired out 11,000. The entire table started laughing at the way Laak bet his chips. Kagawa folded and Obst folded, but Baker made the call.
The river card completed the board with the and Laak announced a bet of 22,100 while his good friend Antonio Esfandiari watched from behind him. Baker came back with a raise to 83,000. "Oh, that's pretty," said Esfandiari. Laak then made mention about how Esfandiari loved to see Baker raise his bet.
After some time in the tank, Laak asked, "Are you some kind of internet genius?"
Yes!" responded Baker loudly, quickly with a big nod of his head.
Laak thought for a bit longer and then folded his hand, dropping to 237,000 in chips. Baker is up to about 290,000.
Viktor Blom, the elusive young Swede, has just joined our field. He's drawn Table 2 Seat 8, and Vivek Rajkumar will have the unenviable task of dealing with the maniac on his direct left.
There's a lot of speculation regarding the other identity of Blom, many claiming that he is indeed the Isildur1 of nosebleed online fame. We can't say for sure, but PokerStars is set to reveal the true identity of their newest online pro on Saturday at 7:00 P.M. Are Blom and Isildur1 the same person? We'll know for sure in just over 48 hours.
Blom's entry makes 37 players registered with 36 of them remaining.
Pals for life Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak are seated back-to-back at adjacent tables, and they're spending more time chatting than playing cards for now. Early in the day, Esfandiari was all over Laak.
"Must be nice, kid. Must be nice to just have $100,000 to throw on a four-table tournament where there's 35 players better than you."
"I know, isn't that sick?" Laak responded with a broad grin.
Scott Seiver checked the flop of to Mike "Timex" McDonald. He fired 5,600 and Seiver called.
The turn card brought the and both players checked to see the fall on the river. Seiver fired a very small bet of 2,000. McDonald thought for a bit and then made the call.
Seiver tabled the and McDonald the . McDonald's hand won the pot and he got some friendly ribbing from the table as to why he took so long to call.
Tom Marchese fired 38,500 with the final board reading ., Hoyt Corkins was his opponent in the hand and was tanking. While Marchese sat still with his Bose noise-cancelling headphones on, Corkins said, "I've been waiting to get you back for Foxwoods. Marchese knocked Corkins out of a Foxwoods event recently and that's what Corkins was referring to. "I guess you can't hear me," finished Corkins.
Corkins finally made the call and Marchese tabled the for top two pair. Corkins held the for a worse two pair. Marchese scooped the pot and made mention that he could inceed hear Corkins, but didn't want to say anything. "I don't listen to music that loud," he said.
James Obst raised to 3,600 from early position and Mike "Timex" McDonald called from the hijack seat. Masa Kagawa reraised from the small blind to 15,200 and won the pot.
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. Action was heads up, and Ashton Griffin checked. Daniel Negreanu put out a bet of 35,000, only to see Griffin check-raise to 83,000 total. Negreanu tanked and called, and both players check-checked the 
before mucking his hand, and that pot puts Kid Poker right up to 350,000 here as Level 1 winds down. Griffin is at about 128,000 now.
, and Seiver's leading bet of 5,550 was enough to pacify the new kid on the block.
. Check-check to the 
turn, and now Negreanu led out with 20,000 chips. Rajkumar didn't waste much time calling, and the 
landed on the river. Negreanu slowed down now with a check, and he more or less snap-folded to Rajkumar's 52,000-chip bet.
and everyone checked to see the 
and Laak announced a bet of 22,100 while his good friend Antonio Esfandiari watched from behind him. Baker came back with a raise to 83,000. "Oh, that's pretty," said Esfandiari. Laak then made mention about how Esfandiari loved to see Baker raise his bet.
to Mike "Timex" McDonald. He fired 5,600 and Seiver called.
fall on the river. Seiver fired a very small bet of 2,000. McDonald thought for a bit and then made the call.
and McDonald the 
. McDonald's hand won the pot and he got some friendly ribbing from the table as to why he took so long to call.
for a worse two pair. Marchese scooped the pot and made mention that he could inceed hear Corkins, but didn't want to say anything. "I don't listen to music that loud," he said.