Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
2009 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Atlantic City
$5,150 Circuit Championship
Day: 1
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Lee had called a raise out of one of the blinds with pocket queens. The flop came down ten high and Lee checked. His opponent fired a continuation bet and Lee elected to raise, planning to take it down right there. After he raised, his opponent reraised. Lee mentioned that he didn't think his opponent put him on a big overpair and then opted to make the call.
The turn was checked by both players after a blank rolled off and then the river fell a jack. Lee checked thinking that the jack was a card that could have tripped up his opponent if he was holding pocket jacks. If it wasn't jacks, Lee had his opponent on a possible
.Both players ended up checking the river and Lee's queens were good against his opponent's
.
Almost everyone had left the room, while Greenberg sat in the tank. He stayed in the tank for a few minutes into the break while a small group of people gathered around the table. He finally elected to fold after thinking everything through.
"Good fold," remarked Inselberg as he tossed over his pocket aces,
. "I thought about smooth calling, but I didn't want to get cute."
was the board and Dwyte Pilgrim bet 3,250 into Matt Glantz. Glantz studied for only a few brief moments and then tossed out the chips to make the call."You got me," said Pilgrim. Glantz didn't reveal his hand just yet, as he wanted to see Pilgrim's hand. Pilgrim flashed his cards to Glantz, but didn't actually show his hand. It looked as if he held pocket threes. After seeing the hand, Glantz turned up
for bottom pair."He's got what?!?!" questioned Pilgrim as he leaned forward to get a better view of Glantz's holding.
and the player in the big blind checked to Ted Ely in the hijack seat. Ely checked and the player in the cutoff seat bet 600. The big blind folded before Ely tossed out a call.The turn brought the
and Ely checked again. His opponent quickly checked behind him.The river was the
and Ely took his time selecting a bet size of 1,150. His opponent looked at his own hand with uncertainty before mucking a revealed pocket jacks. Ely scooped the pot.Ely placed third in the $1,000 event here at Caesars and is a regular on the East Coast tournament scene.
With three limpers in front of him, Reslock looked down at
off-suit and opted to put in a raise to 1,400. The original limper folded, but the second player in reraised the pro. Reslock moved all in for just a few hundred more and was quickly called. His opponent tabled 
, and the race was on for Reslock's tournament life.Unfortunately for him, the board was a big, dry desert, and Chris Reslock has become the first pro eliminated from the field today.
. Minaya was able to get himself all in and his opponent quickly rolled over the 
for a full house. Minaya almost as quickly turned up 
for a higher full house, having got there on the river.Minaya doubled through his opponent and now has around 35,000 chips.
. Action was checked to Ylon Schwartz who bet 2,125. His opponent raised it up to 5,500 and Schwartz shot a look over to him. "Really?" Schwartz asked. He deliberated for a few moments before moving all in. His opponent quickly threw his hand away and Schwartz is back up to around 27,000.
