Championship Day 3 | 2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5

02-26-2007 17:50 UTC-7

Late Night with Chau Giang

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Chau Giang was in the middle of getting a deep massage at his table with a pack of Marlboro lights next to his chip stack. It's only twenty minutes into Day 3 and Giang appears extremely spent. Perhaps another late night for Giang at the cash game tables? He's a regular in the infamous Big Game in Las Vegas hosted in Bobby's Room at the Bellagio with Doye Brunson and Barry Greenstein. So it's would not be out of oridinary if he took the opportunity to play in the biggest stakes cash games down stairs in the Commerce poker room. The man is a machine. The real question that I want an answer to is... did Chau Giang sleep last night?

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02-26-2007 17:53 UTC-7

The Great Wall of Tran

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Chipleader JC Tran arrived during hand one and began stacking his chips and stacking his chips aaaaaaaaaaand stacking this chips. Slowly a pier of stacks began creeping further and further out into the center of the table. Now we are not sure this was an intimidation play by JC but during hand #5 JC casually a 15K raise out while he kept to the task of stacking. After two very long thoughtful folds, Loi Phan in seat one looks to the dealer and says: "Give me that blue button." The dealers here at LAPC have a big blue ALL-IN button they those out for every all-in bet.

JC thought for a moment and folded his hand and went back to stacking his 545 chips, down a few to the Big Blue Button.

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02-26-2007 17:55 UTC-7

Another Sleepless Pro

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Sean McCabe came by before the start of Day Three and told us he only got about five hours sleep, he wanted more but: "My brain just wouldn't let me sleep, something about a poker tournament."

Sean entered today with 272,600 in 5th chip position.

Tags: sean mccabe

02-26-2007 18:08 UTC-7

Francis Cipriano Eliminated

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Vinny Procopio busted Francis Cipriano. If you switch "busted" with "whacked" you have a storyline from The Sopranos. Vinny P had A-J and Frankie C had Q-J. Both players flopped trip Jacks and thats when all the money went into the pot worth over 100K. Vinny P now has over 105K.

Tags: Vinny Procopio

02-26-2007 18:09 UTC-7

Tough Table Again

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Bill Edler playing on table 12 called me over and pointed to the next table, which is table 9.

"OK, tell me who is the third best player at that table."

Table nine as we pointed out below has this lineup.
Barry Greenstein Seat 6
Lee Markholt Seat 7
Michael Mizrachi Seat 1
Nam Le Seat 2
Greg Duros Seat 5
Lester Naquin Seat 9
Francois Norpetlain Seat 3
David Slan Seat 4
Van Zakarain Seat 8

I told Bill I couldn't even tell him who the fourth best player at that table was.

He replied: "The problem is, whomever you pick as the third best player at the table, might also be the best player in the world."

Somedays the draws are tough.

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02-26-2007 18:11 UTC-7

Tatalovich Doubles Thru with the Brunson

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Richard Tatalovich tried not to look too smug as he pondered the board; his all-in button in the pot and his cards exposed. Tatalovich held {10-Spades}

to his opponent's AQ. Tatalovich had rivered a magical third ten to best his opponent's flopped pair of aces.

Tatalovich started the day with a shorter stack of 48,300, but now is feeling comfortably average.

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