Traylor Hitches Up Some Chips

Michael Traylor finished in 3rd place at the last Circuit Main Event at the Lake Tahoe stop, and he's doing just fine here on Day 1 of his shot at back-to-back final tables. During the break, we caught a ride up the escalator with Traylor.

"It's about to get real interesting in there," he said. "I just got moved to Bodog's (Ari Engel's) left."

Sure enough, we rushed back into the room just as the dealer was dealing the first hand, Traylor in the big blind. A player in early position raised, and Dave Inselberg called from the button. Traylor came along for cheap from his blind, and it was three ways to the flop. All three men checked through the {6-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {4-Clubs} to see the {4-Hearts} land on fourth street. Traylor led out with a bet of 7,000 chips now, enough to quickly fold the initial raiser. Inselberg wasn't so quickly pacified, however. "Mehhh, big blind special," he said with a bit of a cynical mood to it. After another minute or so, he looked at his cards again, exposed enough for his neighbor Engel to see what he was about to muck.