Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
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
If I Only Had a Heart
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. The small blind led out for 5,000, leaving himself 13,000 behind. Kevin Saul gave things some thought before pushing all in for 20,000. He dragged the pot with a smile after the small blind folded."Did you have a heart?" Saul inquired of his opponent.
"No," the opponent replied.
Poker is Easy
. She made it 800 to go, bringing a check-raise from Racener to 2,600. Hellmuth disgustedly slammed his cards into the muck. The other player folded as well, bringing action back to the cutoff. She had Racener covered and moved all in.Racener made an easy call with the second nuts,
, putting himself all in. He had a good sweat coming when his opponent turned over a flush draw, 
. The turn and river came 
and 
, both safe cards for Racener. He doubled to 14,500.
Sabat's Taking Lessons from Hellmuth?
The flop came down
. Sabat checked to Ho, who quickly fired out a bet that Sabat wanted no part of. He mucked his hand. "No, no!" cried Ho, turning over pocket aces. A good dodge for Sabat.
Poker Battle's Warriors
Liebert Over and Out
against the button player. She bet 1,300; her opponent raised to 3,000. Liebert moved all in but before her stack could be counted down she had been called. Liebert showed 
for top pair; her opponent showed 
for middle set. The turn briefly kept Liebert's flickering tournament hopes alive, but she headed for the door when the river blanked 
. She is out.
Top Ten Chip Counts
Level 5
: 100/200, 25 ante
Here are your current top ten chip stacks, courtesy of www.worldpokertour.com:
Daniel Negreanu - 122,500
Bertrand Grospellier - 75,000
David Chiu - 67,000
Kofi Farkye - 65,000
Zach Hyman - 55,000
Amir Vahedi - 55,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 54,400
Steve Paul-Ambrose - 54,000
Hevad Khan - 52,400
Nick Schulman - 51,000
We also counted Joe Sebok and Nick Binger each floating around the 50K mark.
Break Time
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.
Play Resumes