Caution Abounds

We took another two flops without significant post-flop action. In the first, Layne Flack opened for 40,000 and then called small blind Rep Porter's re-raise to 140,000. Porter's bet of 200,000 on a flop of {3-Hearts}

was enough to scare Flack out of the pot, but not before Flack noted that one of his cards was bent.

"Are these new decks?" Flack asked the staff. He was assured that they were brand new.

"So someone's bending the cards already," Flack noted wryly. The offending deck was immediately substituted out, with Flack telling Nenad Medic that the bent card was the {k-Clubs}

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A few hands later, Steve Fung, the most active player at the table so far, opened a pot for 41,000. Jonathan Little called from the button and made a 65,000-chip stab at a {2-Hearts}