Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-28-2009 09:46 UTC-12

Erick Lindgren Was Here

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Erick Lindgren was in the tournament for a little while, but he's already busted. We figure the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament (which restarted a half hour ago) in which Lindgren has about 200,000 chips is more important to him than this tournament was.

Tags: Erick Lindgren

06-28-2009 09:59 UTC-12

Chan Caught in the Middle

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Scooping the crowd for Isaac Baron (still haven't seen him), we passed by Terrence Chan's table. Preflop, an early-position player raised to 500 and Chan called, only to see a player behind him raise to 2,500. That folded everyone else back to the original raiser, who moved all in for about 5,000. Chan knocked the table in frustration and mucked his hand. The other player called with pocket 9s; the all-in player showed ace-queen. When the board developed, {6-Diamonds}

, Chan begged the dealer to put a jack on the river, suggesting that he may have folded the best hand. The river bricked, leaving Chan to steam over folding the winner.

06-28-2009 10:03 UTC-12

Baited Breath

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Dag Palovic waved us over to his table.

"Look who's sitting on my right!" he said with a grin. There was nobody in the seat, but there was a registration ticket on the table. The name on the registration ticket?

"Phillip Hellmuth."

So it seems the Poker Brat will be joining the field at some point today.

06-28-2009 10:07 UTC-12

Juanda and Alvarado Go at it Again

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A player in early position raised to 450 and found two callers -- including J.C. Alvarado -- before the action came to John Juanda. Juanda reraised all in for his last 1,900 (no rebuy chips left). The original raiser folded. Alvarado considered his options, then reraised to isolate. He got his desire as the remaining player in the hand folded, allowing Juanda to open {A-Spades}

against Alvarado's {2-Clubs}

.

"I got you in trouble," Juanda said.

"Ahhh, I had to call though," replied Alvarado. "You never have aces there."

The board ran out {A-Hearts}

to give Juanda the win. He doubled up to about 4,300.

Tags: JC Alvarado John Juanda

06-28-2009 10:10 UTC-12

Liu Livin' Large

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We missed all of the action at J.J. Liu's table prior to the turn. There, on a board of {5-Spades}

, Liu moved all in for 6,475. Her opponent called with {Q-Clubs}

, a hand drawing exceedingly thin against Liu's {5-Hearts}

, a flopped full house. The river {A-Diamonds}

did not improve Liu's opponent.

We count 19,000 in Liu's stack now, in addition to two rebuy chips.

Tags: JJ Liu

06-28-2009 10:14 UTC-12

Top Pair's Not the Nuts?

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The preflop action was limped by one player before Chino Rheem made it 525 to go. Only that player called to take a flop of {Q-Hearts}

. Action checked to Rheem. He bet 1,000, then moved all in for 4,250 after his opponent check-raised to 2,000. Rheem's opponent called with {K-Spades}

, top pair of queens. Rheem showed two pair, {Q-Spades}

, and saw his hand hold when the turn and river bricked. He's up to 10,000 chips, although he has burned both rebuy chips already.

Tags: Chino Rheem

06-28-2009 10:17 UTC-12

Short Day for Daniel

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After losing a big pot earlier with pocket tens against ace-king (all in preflop), Daniel Negreanu was trying to induce players to put chips into pots against him. After an early-position player limped in, Negreanu moved his whole stack of 2,800 chips into the middle, folding everyone else back around to the limper.

"I don't have that good of a hand -- I promise," said Negreanu. "Let's gamble buddy."

"I don't have a good hand either," replied the limper.

"Cmon," Negreanu urged. "I'll buy you a drink." It was at that point that the limper folded his hand. Negreanu flashed pocket eights.

Negreanu must have eventually received the action he was looking for. His seat is now empty.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

06-28-2009 10:24 UTC-12

Esfandiari Making Opponents Disappear

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A series of preflop raises, calls, and reraises left Antonio Esfandiari as the biggest stack in a three-way pot against Archie Karas and one other player, both of whom were all in. At showdown, the tabled hands were:

Esfandiari - {A-Hearts}

Karas -

Opponent - {A-Clubs}

The third player in the hand paired jacks on a flop of {J-Spades}

, but the rest of the board came hearts, {9-Hearts}

and

, to give Esfandiari the nut flush. He dragged the whole pot, eliminating Karas and the third player in the process.

Esfandiari now has about 12,500 chips.

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari

06-28-2009 10:26 UTC-12

Break

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We're on a very short break (hopefully not more than 10 minutes) in order to redeem all of the remaining rebuy chips. Anyone who has not redeemed their rebuy chips yet will be forced to do so now. From this point forward, if a player goes broke, he or she is out.

06-28-2009 10:38 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air.