Apart from Matusow, that is. On one of his recent meanderings around the room, Matt Glantz was flagged down by The Mouth. From a few tables away, he half-yelled. "Hey Matt! How many times have you reached for black chips instead of green?!" Glantz mumbled something unintelligible and returned to the conversation he had been in the middle of.
A few seconds later, as Glantz turned away and paced back toward his own table, Matusow continued, "I can't tell you how many times I've min-raised because I threw out black chips."
It's still less than an hour into Mikey's tournament, and we suspect he'll sort the colors out before too long.
. He checked to Karagulleyan. Karagulleyan called 5,000 and threw a single blue chip across the betting line. Watkins quickly called.
turn and
river. At showdown, Watkins' pair of aces,
, was enough to take the pot.



and showing Levi the semi-bluff.
, Medic checked and then called a bet of 4,200. Both players checked the
. Medic won the pot.
, and the action checked around to the player in last position. The middle-aged gentleman with slick hair made a bet of more than twice the pot, tossing 2,100 chips into the middle. Nenad Medic folded from the small blind, but Thomas Bichon opted to put in a check-raise to 5,600, enough to fold the other two meddlers. The bettor made the call, heads-up the rest of the way.
, and Bichon led out with another 7,000 chips. His opponent asked for an estimated chip count before raising to 17,000. While Bichon was mulling it over, his opponent said, "You fold, I'll show you." Bichon quickly called following that comment.
, and Bichon would check and face a bet of 15,000. His opponent repeated, "You fold, I'll show you," this time adding, "I'm a nice guy." Bichon quickly called following that comment as well, and his opponent slapped
, his flopped flush out-pipping his opponent's and drawing a big, "Oh my god," from the slick-haired man across the table.