Speaking of Eddy Sabat and Bryce Yockey, we already mentioned that they were at the early table of death, as they were joined by David "ODB" Baker. Well the table had an empty seat, which was filled by Alex Masek, who as we said earlier has a runner up in a WSOP-C main event under his belt. However, despite all these big names, it is a relative unknown, Justice Litle, who seems to be the shark here. He is sitting with around 53,000, which by our counts is one of the top stacks in the room. We will be sure to keep tabs on this table as the day progresses.
We walked over to a nearby table and saw a nearly 25,000-chip pot being split in half. The board read and the two tabled hands were and . Although we are not sure when or how the money went in, we're pretty positive that both players are excited to be getting chips back given their final hands.
We got to Joe Tehan's table when he was heads up with his opponent in a pot that had about 3,500 in it. The board read a dangerous , and it was checked to Tehan, who bet out 2,550. His opponent thought for about a minute before calling. The river came the , and it was checked to Tehan again, who counted out a big bet of 6,600 and threw it in the middle. This forced his opponent to go deep in the tank.
He counted out his chips, and eyeballed Tehan's stack for over two minutes. He continued to think for another minute or so, counting out his chips to assess the damage. Finally, after nearly 3 minutes of thinking, he chucked in the call, and Tehan showed for an ace high flush. His opponent started to shake his head, but didn't muck his hand yet. He continued to do this for about 15 seconds, before lifting his cards up. He started to flick his wrist, but stopped again, refusing to let go of his cards. After another 10 seconds, and a few shrugs of confusion from his table mates, Tehan's opponent finally threw his cards face up to the dealer, showing for a lesser flush. Tehan finally took the chips he waited patiently for, upping his stack to 44,000.
After one player limped, Lars Bonding raised from the cutoff to 1,400. The player to his left called and the remaining players got out of the way.
The flop was and Bonding checked before his opponent bet 1,600. Bonding called.
The turn was the and once again Bonding check-called, this time for 2,100.
The river was the and both players quickly checked. Before Bonding had a chance to table his cards, his opponent flipped over for a full house. Bonding mouthed the word, "Wow" as he slowly slid his cards to the dealer.