2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's Chester

Ari Engel opened the action by raising to 300. The player on the button pushed out a re-raise, making it 775. The small blind got out of the way and Craig Bergeron counted out a four-bet, raising the action to 2,400. Engel got out of the way and the player on the button quickly dropped out another raise, making it 5,250. Bergeron wasted no time pushing his entire stack forward and his opponent did so as well.

Bergeron:
Opponent:

The board ran out and Bergeron was able to send his opponent packing.

We caught up to the action to see the board reading and around 2,600 in the pot. Rex Clinksclales riffled through his chips before tossing out a bet of 2,350.

His opponent sat thinking for a moment before asking Clinkscales how much he had behind. His opponent then flicked out a grey T5,000 chip and an orange T1,000 chip, making it 6,000 to go. Clinkscales thought for about a minute before sending his cards sailing toward the muck.

After hours and hours of covering almost exclusively dudes at every circuit stop, it's refreshing to find a couple pretty women in the field. We got even luckier when we found La Sengphet and Christine Brewer locked up in hand.

We caught up with the action on the turn with the board showing . Sengphet checked from the big blind, Brewer bet 1,200 and Sengphet check-raised to 2,800. Brewer took just a few seconds before putting in a large raise to 8,000 straight.

Sengphet was visibly unhappy with the hand following the raise and tanked for a few moments. She tossed her cards away and Brewer took the pot.

Ari Engel raised to 250 from the button and received two callers. The flop came and all three players checked. Fourth street came and once again all three players checked their option. The river brought the and a player led out for 300. The player to his left got out of the way and Engel pondered for a moment before calling.

His opponent tabled for a straight and took down the pot.

With the board reading , four players sat with cards in front of them. Tim Finne checked and a second player followed suit. Another player fired out a bet of 1,500 and the fourth player got out of the way.

With action returned to Finne, he pushed out a raise, making it 4,400 to go. It folded back around to the original bettor who mucked her cards with a dejected expression on her face, saying that she mucked ace-eight.

Some of these players are on their first bullet and some are swinging for the fences with their second bullet.

Cards are now in the air for the second flight of day 1.