Phil Hellmuth has just showed up to today's event, after reportedly buying in at 7p.m. - the latest allowable time to do so.
He has just wandered into the tournament area and greeted a few buddies before trying to figure out his seat. After they found a stack of chips for Hellmuth, he eventually sat down at the table featuring Minh Ly, David Grey, Archie "The Greek" Karas, and Daniel Negreanu.
Tony G was another one of our late arrivals into today's event however it didn't take him long to get busy.
Tony showed and fired a bet on the river which was raised by David Chiu with . When Tony made the call, Chiu said, "Kings up," as Tony showed for trips to collect a nice pot and move to over 23,000 in chips.
While watching the action near Jerry Buss's table we noticed this rather large fellow sitting over at the side in a laker shirt watching Buss's table very intently. As expected, we found out that this gentleman is one of Jerry Buss's bodyguards. When your the owner of the L.A. Lakers, you can't have too much security.
David Chiu has just taken back a big pot off Tony G.
Tony showed and fired out and was again he was raised on the river by Chiu who had . Tony made the call as Chiu flipped over () for the flush as Tony mucked his cards saying that he had trip aces.
Chiu recovers to about 16,000 while Tony G slips to 23,000.
John Hennigan bet the whole way showing but Lyle Berman called him down with . At the river both players checked as Berman flipped over () for two pair which was good as Hennigan mucked saying he only held a pair of tens.
Berman is going strong with 28,000 while Hennigan doesn't have room for any more mistakes as he is crippled to only 2,350.