Rafe Furst has a guy playing next to him that wants to chip up or go home, as he is in the 7 Card Stud tournament with a lot of chips. The gentleman, Harry, just got it all in against Rafe holding 5 8 offsuit against Rafe's pocket Kings. Rafe's Kings held up, and he is back up - to about 4,500.
Table 75, former host to Andy Black, Johnny Chan, Harry Demetriou, and Amnon Filippi has broken. Filippi, who finished a stunning 4th in the $50K HORSE event, was found reliving some of those final table hands with his new tablemate, TJ Cloutier.
Minneapolis Jim Meehan is in fine voice today. As I passed by the table, he was recounting a game where one of the players was discussing a certain unsafe sexual practice in Thailand. As I tried to run past, he grabbed my arm and said, "Wait. You have to hear how this ends." My guess was badly - so I fled. His tablemates, including Alan Sass, looked jealous at my ability to leave the table.
JC Tran is down to about 2,000 after losing about a 7,000-chip pot when his opponent made two pair on the river. The board was . JC's opponent turned over , and JC mucked.
With the board reading , Barny trapped his opponent to get all the money in the middle. The player turned over for top pair, and Barny turned over for two pair. The turn came the , but the river was a Queen, giving his opponent two pair, and knocking Barny to under 2,000 in chips.
The board read , and John Myung moved all in with about 1,000 in the pot. He got insta-called by his opponent. Myung turned over , but his opponent revealed . Luckily for Myung, he had already built up some chips, and is back down to just under the 4,000 starting stack,