While perusing around the poker room, we noticed that a gentleman named Marty Wong has amassed a stack of 65,000 chips. That's 325 big blinds, and if he's not the leader at the moment, he's damn close.
Kennii Nguyen just walked by our desk and motioned his hand across his throat. Either Nguyen is threatening to kill the PokerNews Live Reporting Team, or he's been eliminated from play on Day 1a.
Nick Jivkov and an opponent were heads up with the board reading . Both players checked.
The completed the board, Jivkov checked again, and his opponent tossed out 1,625. Jivkov tanked for nearly two minutes, then grabbed enough chips to make the call.
"Just for info," he said, dropping them in the pot.
His opponent tabled for a pair of queens, and Jivkov mucked his hand.