The Early Bird Gets the Chips
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It looked like table 5 was going to kick off with just two players. Canadin player Maximillian Droege and Ali Baskan. Droege decided to get the chat in early: “Are we going to play heads up? You want to flip for it?” Droege had earlier wandered over to the PokerNews desk to ask about Day 1a chip leader and average count.
As we started though four players were ready and Droege stated his intentions by three-betting an opener on the first hand to 450. He got two callers and we saw a flop of 
. Checked to him, Droege continued with a bet of 700 and got one caller in Baskan. The turn was 
and both players checked. A river 
was checked to Droege who reached for chips and made it 1,300. Baskan made the call and mucked when Droege showed the 
. Looks like Droege has come to play.