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"Are you really gonna call, bro?"
Sefik 'Rob' Peltekci arrived at his table a few minutes after the cards were in the air, but quickly made up for the lost time by putting his entire stack at risk within the first five minutes.
Facing a 6,200 preflop raise from Anthony Aboukhalil, Peltekci moved all in over the top -- a bet worth just under 40,000 in chips. While Aboukhalil pondered a decision, Peltekci gave him quite the earful:
"Are you really gonna call, bro? I'll go ahead and show you. If you don't have queens, kings or aces, that's the only thing that can beat me."
Clearly not wanting a call, Peltekci pleaded for Aboukhalil to lay down his hand:
"If you're taking this long, you know I have you beat... I haven't played a hand in like five hours!" (When you add in yesterday's dormancy, of course).
"I'll show it to you, bro. I didn't come down here to do bust on the first hand."
Eventually, Aboukhalil piped up.
"Seven deuce?" he asked.
"Seven deuce? You think I would do this with seven deuce? Oh my god, what kind of table am I at?" Peltekci countered.
It was then that Tournament Director Jack McClellan walked over to the table and reminded Peltekci not to talk about the hand while its still in progress. The warning essentially put an end to the light-hearted confrontation, as the chatter stopped and Aboukhalil folded his hand.
"Aren't you gonna show?" asked a third party at the table.
"I'll show if he wants me to," said Peltekci as he snatched his cards back from the dealer. "Do you want me to show?"
"No. Never," replied Aboukhalil.
Peltekci showed them anyway, tabling the .
"Robbie, you may want to listen to this next announcement. It may save you a penalty," offered McClellan, before he got on the mic and warned the entire field about the consequences of inappropriate table talk.
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Nenad Medic has been playing more than his share of pots on Table 6. He had some early success with that strategy but recently lost two sizable pots to Jonathan Little.
The first was the larger of the two, with well more than 100,000 chips up for grabs on the river of a board. In that hand, Medic checked behind after Little checked the river, allowing Little to table a full house, , to take the pot. Medic made an inaudible comment to which Little replied, "I'm probably too much of a calling station for that."
The second pot was much smaller, with Little check-calling a bet of 21,700 from Medic on the river of a board. Medic made two pair, kings and sevens, with , but Little had the same hand with a better kicker, .
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Andy Bloch managed to make it for roughly two more orbits around the table, but he has slipped into tournament death. We didn't see the action, but we did see Bloch stand up as the dealer at his table announced, "Seat open!"
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Things started off rosy for Georges Hanna but they're heading south fast. He just lost a huge pot to Kelly Kim. With 65,000 in the middle, Hanna checked a board to Kim. Kim settled on a bet of 42,000 that was instantly called by Hanna. It was an unfortunate decision, as Kim tabled the nuts, , to drag the pot.
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It didn't take long for Georges Hanna's day to end. He drew the toughest table -- by far -- in the room and despite starting strong was quickly ground down. For his final hand Hanna limped into the pot from under the gun, then raised all in to 68,000 after Layne Flack raised the button to 9,200. Flack called instantly, tabling . He was racing Hanna's .
Flack paired aces on the flop, but the turn was the biggest sweat card in the deck. It gave Hanna outs to a set of sixes, a club flush, and two different straights. None of those out hit on the river. Hanna is out.
"I'm not sure if I'm happy you got him down to 68 before that," Flack told Kelly Kim.
"He doesn't do that if he's not that short," Kim replied.
Dan Harrington agreed. "You win more this way for sure."
"Yeah, he might have got me off the pot on the turn," Flack mused.
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It's hard to keep up with all of the action in the room this morning, despite the fact that there are only six tables in action. In between reporting other hands, we noticed that Allen Cunningham got up from his table and surrendered his player badge. He left the tournament area and appears to be busto.
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Zorlu Menderes
John Monnette and Zorlu Menderes aren't exactly making nice over on table three, as evidenced by the not-so-friendly exchange that took place after a recent hand.
Menderes took approximately 50,000 in chips from Monnette after showing down on a board. The fact that the dealer prematurely raked in the pot after Menderes' flop bet probably didn't help Monnette's mood much, but what really seemed to set him off was the way that Menderes was placing bets.
Sitting with a plethora of blue (5,000), yellow (1,000) and pink chips (500), Menderes has a habit of occasionally stacking up as many green (100) chips as he can, and toppling them over onto the felt as he bets, creating a mess for the dealer and making it difficult for opponents to count the size of each bet without the dealer's help. More on that later.
While Menderes was busy stacking up his newfound chips, the dealer noticed that an ante was missing.
(**Note - the following conversation is paraphrased)
"It's his (Menderes)," Monnette claimed.
The claim seemed legit, as Menderes was the only player at the table who didn't have three green chips out in front of him.
"Me? I pay (paid)," said Menderes.
"You didn't pay," Monnette fired back. "I'll bet you a hundred thousand dollars that you didn't pay. Let's look at the cameras."
Menderes looked befuddled and claimed his English wasn't very good, so next door neighbor Ron Azor helped translate.
"Her (the dealer), no problem. You, problem," Menderes said in the direction of Monnette, as he reluctantly added the missing ante to the pot.
"I don't know what this guy's problem is," Monnette spouted back.
"He stacks his chips in the most obnoxious way possible," he added before also calling attention to the missing ante fiasco.
"It's fine if you want to be obnoxious," Monnette continued, "but don't slow up the game."
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board. In that hand, Medic checked behind after Little checked the river, allowing Little to table a full house, 
, to take the pot. Medic made an inaudible comment to which Little replied, "I'm probably too much of a calling station for that."
, but Little had the same hand with a better kicker, 
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board to Kim. Kim settled on a bet of 42,000 that was instantly called by Hanna. It was an unfortunate decision, as Kim tabled the nuts, 
, to drag the pot.
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flop, but the turn 
was the biggest sweat card in the deck. It gave Hanna outs to a set of sixes, a club flush, and two different straights. None of those out hit on the 
river. Hanna is out.
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