$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Day 2 | 2009 L.A. Poker Classic

02-22-2009 14:33 UTC-7

Break Time

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"You are now on break," the computerized tournament system just informed the players. It's a fifteen-minute break.

02-22-2009 14:48 UTC-7

Play Resumes

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Cards are in the air. K.J. Nam remains the chip leader with 185,000 chips. Antonio Esfandiari is on the same table, yet has managed to accumulate a sizable stack (165,000) of his own.

Level: 8

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

02-22-2009 14:57 UTC-7

Amir Vahedi was seen putting in a call of roughly 11,000 total chips preflop at Table 25. The aggressor was seated immediately to his right -- Mickey Mouse Mills, named presumably for the fact that he always plays with a Mickey Mouse figurine on the table. Mills moved all in on a flop of {2-Clubs}

. Without asking for a count, Vahedi called.

Mills: {Q-Spades}

Vahedi:

The turn and river blanked out {K-Clubs}

and

, making Mills the winner. There was some confusion over the exact amount of his stack, but eventually the dealer determined that 45,100 was the correct amount. Once Vahedi paid it out, he was left with 13,000.

Tags: Amir Vahedi Mickey Mouse Mills

02-22-2009 15:19 UTC-7

Khan Artist

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Hevad Khan was recently involved in a heads-up pot that left him shaking his head.

Khan and his opponent saw a {Q-Clubs}

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 {4-Spades}

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 {9-Hearts}

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 {6-Hearts}

for trips. Khan mucked in disgust and was left with 38,000 in chips after the hand.

Tags: Hevad Khan

02-22-2009 15:30 UTC-7

Sexton Lives On

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Mike Sexton is best known to poker-television watchers across the country as the voice of the WPT. He's in today's field, seated at the same table as Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri and Jimmy Fricke. The three got tangled in a big pot preflop. Barbieri opened with a raise to 1,800 that Fricke called. Sexton reraised to 8,000, about 40% of his stack.

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 {A-Clubs}

to Fricke's {9-Diamonds}

.

"Well, I'm in about as good a shape as I can be," Sexton remarked. His shape was significantly better on a flop of {2-Hearts}

. The turn {5-Clubs}

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.

Tags: Al Barbieri Jimmy Fricke Mike Sexton

02-22-2009 15:45 UTC-7

Top Ten Chip Counts

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Here's a look at your current top ten, courtesy of www.worldpokertour.com:

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.

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari

02-22-2009 15:53 UTC-7

"The Oracle" Can't Foresee His Own Fate

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After a few quick words with Tournament Director Matt Savage, Roy Winston exited the tournament room. The word on the floor is that his pocket aces were overcome by an opponent's ace-four.

Tags: Roy Winston