On a flop of , a player in the cutoff bet 650 and Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin called from the button. The dealer proceeded to burn and turn the , which both players checked.
When the peeled off on the river, the cutoff bet 3,000. Baldwin snap-called only to see his opponent flip for a flush. Baldwin silently mucked as the dealer reminded him to throw in the 3,000.
"Oh, I have to pay?" Baldwin joked, much to the amusement of the table. Baldwin is still hovering around the starting stack with 28,500.
It was just announced by tournament staff that the last aggressor in any given hand is required to show their hand first.
Upon hearing the announcement, Daniel Negreanu made his feelings about it known. "Booooooooooooooooooooooo," proclaimed Negreanu. He followed that with another loud, "Boooooooooooooooooooo."
Why isn't he a fan? He feels that it very much may slow the game down, as people may argue over who was the last to bet and could make for arguments. Either way, thats the rule in place and Negreanu, already off to a great 2011, will no doubt adapt.
An early position raiser made it 250 to go only to be reraised to 650 by a player in middle position. Viktor Blom, the newly outed "Isildur1", was next to act and smooth-called behind. The original raiser got out of the way and it was heads up to the flop, which came down .
The middle position player was first to act and checked to Blom, who wasted little time in betting 500. Maybe it was intimidation knowing that the bettor was an online legend, but either way the middle position folded. Blom then showed the and raked in the small pot. He is down from the original starting stack, sitting with around 27,000.
A while back on the PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge, a jovial man by the name of Johnny Whitt took his shot at $100,000. Whitt is a Southern jokester from Houston, Texas, with a great sense of humor and a pet rooster. He reminds one of mix between Doyle Brunson and Santa Claus, and was called called “a mountain of a man” by host Chris Rose. Whitt did quite well on the show, ultimately falling to Daniel Negreanu in Round Three. He then appeared on the "Challenge of Champions", but feel short there as well.
Whitt is back in action today at the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure, and is looking for more PokerStars glory.
OneWe've recently discovered a table that is by far the most stacked in the room, but unfortunately it'll be among the first to break. Seated at the table are:
Liv Boeree
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Will Failla
Sorel Mizzi
Praz Bansi
Carter Phillips
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
There are still a couple empty seats at the table, so one can only wonder who will sit down next!
There is no shortage of Team PokerStars Pros in todays field. In addition to those already listed, we've spotted:
Barry Greenstein (USA)
Luca Pagano (Italy)
Anh Van Nguyen (Canada)
Pat Pezzin (Canada)
Bill Chen (Friend of PokerStars)
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (Sweden)
George Lind III (Online)
Vanessa Rousso (USA)
Andre Akkari (Brazil)
Orel Hershiser (Friend of PokerStars)
Greg Raymer (USA)
Chris Moneymaker (USA)
Marcel Luske (Netherlands)
John Duthie (UK & Ireland)
Ivan Demidov (Russia)
Jude Ainsworth (UK & Ireland)
Today's field is saturated with big names. Here is a list of players we spotted on just our first pass through the tournament area:
Men "The Master" Nguyen
Phil Laak
Brock Parker
Ted Lawson
David Benyamine
Pascal LeFrancois
Kathy Liebert
David Bach
Joseph Cheong
Matt Affleck
Lee Markholt
Petter Jetten
Dwyte Pilgrim
Jonathan Little
We've already spotted a handful of Team PokerStars Pro's in the field today including Maria Mayrinck, Daniel Negreanu (fresh off of his second place finish in the $100,000 Super High Roller event), Fatima de Melo, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel.
In fact, Mercier and Duhamel are sitting at the same table.
The field is expected to be much larger than yesterday's and we'll surely let you know who else is in the field.
, a player in the cutoff bet 650 and Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin called from the button. The dealer proceeded to burn and turn the 
, which both players checked.
peeled off on the river, the cutoff bet 3,000. Baldwin snap-called only to see his opponent flip 
for a flush. Baldwin silently mucked as the dealer reminded him to throw in the 3,000.
and raked in the small pot. He is down from the original starting stack, sitting with around 27,000.![[user101598]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}