$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 1 Completed
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
The Clicking of Chips Falls Silent
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This field was loaded with poker talent, so it's not a surprise that the overnight chip leader comes from among their ranks. In a field with more than 400 players remaining, it's tough to be sure who the overnight chip leader is, but our scan of the tables didn't reveal anyone with a bigger stack than Daniel Negreanu's 140,000 chips. That's well above the chip average of roughly 34,000. We'll post a final list of the counts of all survivors once that information has been logged by the tournament staff and made available to the media.
Tomorrow we will play another five levels. Action kicks off at noon local time. See you then!
Holding Out for the End
Tough Day for Arieh Not Getting Any Easier
to Arieh, who fired out 1,300. Only the late-position player called.Both men checked the
turn. When the river fell 
, Arieh tried a bet of 1,800. His opponent quickly called, causing Arieh to knock the table, "Good hand." He flashed a missed flush draw, 
; his opponent took the pot down with 
.Arieh has 15,000 chips after that loss.
50 Tables Remaining
Yang Banger
Yang opened the pot with a raise to 800 from the cutoff and Steve Sung kicked it up a notch to 2,600 from the button. Both blinds surrendered and Yang made the call, sending the action heads up to the flop, which came
. Yang then fired a bet of 4,000 which was called by Sung, sending us to the turn: 
.12,000 was what Yang charged Sung to see the river and Sung made the call, leaving himself just 15,000 behind. When the river delivered the
, Yang moved all in putting Sung to a decision for all of his chips. At this point in the hand, Sung tanked for what seemed like an eternity; so long, in fact, that the dealer had to abandon the table for reasons unknown and a floorperson stepped in to finish out the hand. Without actually calling the clock, Yang explained to Sung that he felt he'd been extra patient and was considering doing so. A bit of inaudible dialogue was exchanged between the two and in the end, Yang did ask the dealer... er... floorperson... for a clock, only to watch Sung slam his cards into the muck and storm out of the room.
After the hand, Yang climbed to about 64,000 in chips while Sung dropped to 15,000.
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Play Resumes
While We're at Break...
* Dan Shak tank-folded to a bet of 4,000 from Phil Laak into a pot of 3,000 on a board of
. Afterwards, Shak asked Laak if he was bluffing."Would king-ten of diamonds be a bluff?" Laak replied.
"You didn't have king-ten of diamonds," Shak stated flatly.
"It's true, I never stated I had it," said Laak. "I just asked if it would be a bluff."
* Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has amassed a stack of 91,000 today by winning pots like the following. In position, he was one of two people to call a raise to 600. Everyone checked a flop of
. When the turn fell 
, the preflop raiser took a stab at the pot with a bet of 1,100. Only ElkY called. On the river 
, the preflop raiser again checked. ElkY made a value bet of 2,250 and revealed 
, a pair of aces, after his opponent called. It was the winner.* Hoyt Corkins is on his third table of the day. He's landed at Ray Davis' table. We noted with some amusement as Davis was carrying on in his usual loquacious style, that Corkins is wearing earplugs.
Break Time