Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 696
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At Todd Brunson's table, a player opened with a preflop raise to 1,600. The player immediately behind him reraised to 4,500; the player immediately behind that player made it 14,500. Everyone folded back to the first reraiser. He thought things over, then moved all in for roughly 35,000.
His opponent stood up and took three steps away from the table to call out to a friend. "Hey! Hey!" he shouted. "I have aces and he puts me all in." He then came back to the table and announced a call. He waited until his opponent turned over pocket kings before showing
.It was at that point that Todd Brunson started calling for a king. It didn't come. The board ran out
to eliminate the player with pocket kings.After the hand, Mr. Aces asked Brunson why he was looking for a king to hit the board.
"Because you slowrolled him," Brunson replied. "You walked away from the table. You should have a dead hand."
Tournament Director Matt Savage appeared at the table. He listened to Brunson's story and assessed a one-orbit penalty on Mr. Aces for leaving the table during the hand. The player with kings brought a friend of his own to the table, who asked Savage why the hand wasn't dead. He wanted to know what the ruling was.
"I made my ruling," said Savage. "It's not changing. The hand's over. Now you're just angling to win the pot."
Savage stacked Mr. Aces' chips while he was cooling his heels on the rail. All told, they added up to 108,000. When the players come back from the break, we'll try to get his name.
The last time our Melissa Castello hooked up with Team PokerStars Pro Hevad Khan, they played a friendly game of war in Macau — the loser forced to eat a handful of freeze dried squid shred, aka 'Cuttle Fish.' This time around the conversation centered primarily around poker and the LAPC, although a brief discussion about playing Wii Tennis for money snuck into the interview.
. Pham's opponent made a pair on the flop, but a pair of fours -- 
. He never improved from there, as the turn and river blanked . Pham raked in the pot, improving his count to 114,000.
Antonio Esfandiari - 186,000
K.J. Nam - 185,000
Kofi Farkye - 126,000
Anthony Venturini - 125,000
Dan O'Brien - 115,000
Danny Wong - 102,000
John Phan - 97,000
Kevin Schaffel - 95,350
David Pham - 95,000
Jeff Madsen - 92,000
** A note about our chip count page: Until the field reaches double digit status, the media restrictions in place make it virtually impossible for us to keep up with the counts of the 300+ remaining players in the field. Therefore, the counts you'll find on the chip count page at the moment are from the beginning of Day 2. If you're interested in a particular player, let us know in the Shout Box and we'll do our best to provide an update.
Barbieri wasn't happy to see that raise; he mucked his hand. Fricke responded by immediately moving all in. He had Sexton well-covered.
Sexton commented that he thought his problem would be getting by Barbieri. He took a swig from a bottle of Pepsi on a service tray by the table, then moved his chips in. He showed
to Fricke's 
."Well, I'm in about as good a shape as I can be," Sexton remarked. His shape was significantly better on a flop of
. The turn 
and river 
both missed Fricke. He cut 20,700 chips off his stack and passed them to Sexton, who now has about 44,000 chips.
Khan and his opponent saw a
flop after a preflop min-raise and call. The action was checked to Khan in position and he fired a 1,500 bet; his opponent made the call.The dealer then burned and turned the
and Khan's opponent took the lead in the betting, tossing out a 3,000 wager; Khan called.The last card off the deck was the
and Khan's opponent fired once more, this time making it 12,000. Khan made the call and could only cringe when his opponent tabled the 
for trips. Khan mucked in disgust and was left with 38,000 in chips after the hand.
