Daniel Negreanu is telling stories from back in the ay of players who would over-sell their action. He specifically mentioned a player in Los Angeles who would triple sell his action in a $1,000 tournament. But then on top of that, he'd get a stack and swap 5% with other people in the tournament. Then he'd dump his whole stack and have a 5% freeroll with $2,000 in his pocket.
Negreanu lso mentioned a story about Eskimo Clark in which Eskimo Clark made a final table. People sweating him started talking to each other. They discovered that one guy had a third, another had a third, and another had a half! Despite overselling his action, Clark made the final table. Whatever money he took down, he promised to pay back the rest of the over-sold action to his backers.
We doubt there's anyone in this tournament who oversold his action, but certainly some of the players in this tournament are sweating others.
Alan Boston is one of the old-school stud players, a guy who has been playing stud for years and years. Yuval Bronstein comes from the new school. When old school met new school interesting results occurred.
Boston completed on third street and was called by one opponent before Bronstein raised. Both Boston and the third player called the raise to fourth street. The third player had the best board and led out with a bet that Bronstein promptly raised.
"Queen-five," said Boston, pointing at his board. "Cribbage hand."
"I used to play cribbage when I was younger," remarked Amnon Filippi. "I haven't played in so long I forgot how."
Boston eventually called the raise, as did the third player. That player checked fifth street, then folded after Bronstein bet and Boston called. Boston took over the betting lead on sixth street. He check-called one bet, then checked again on the river. Bronstein checked behind and tabled for a pair of aces.
"I'll let you know in a second," Boston said. He squeezed his last card, then turned up a diamond flush, . Filippi seemed surprised that Boston hadn't bet his hand.
"I was going for a check-raise," said Boston. "I checked blind. I'm used to old-school stud. No one is ever checking two aces on the river. Ever. Unless he knew I had a four-flush, which is hard to picture."
Men "The Master" Nguyen has amassed a large collection of chips, but just lost a good chunk of them to another player at his table.
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Nguyen completed to get things started and got called by both Frangos and the player in Seat 3. Nguyen led out with bets in streets four and five and was called by both players. On sixth street, Frangos folded to a bet from the Seat 3 player, but Nguyen opted to stick around. Nguyen called one more bet on seventh street, but was no good against his opponent's queen-high straight.
Tom Dwan had some chips when he left for the dinner break, but he got rid of them extremely quickly upon his return. It looks as though the young phenom will have to wait until at least tomorrow to work towards his first bracelet.
Greg Mueller, a player in Seat 2, and Brandon Adams got mixed up in a pot that saw Mueller walk away the victor. Action was raised twice on third street, checked on fourth street, with Mueller making a bet and getting two calls on fifth street.
On sixth street, Mueller bet and was raised by the player in Seat 2. Adams folded, but Mueller made the call and raised his opponent's bet on seventh street, where he got the call and the chips.
When all of the registrations were tallied, 150 players signed up for this event. That's a slight improvement over the 142 who played last year. 16 players will make the money, with a minimum-cash worth $24,901. The player who wins the tournament will receive the top prize of $394,800 -- and of course a WSOP gold bracelet.
A full breakdown of the prize pool is available under the Payouts tab.
A player had brought in and and a raise was made before action got to Juanda where he three-bet. Phan called, the player who made the bring in folded, and the original raiser called.
On fourth, fifth and sixth street, Juanda bet and Phan called. It was Phan's turn to bet when he made a flush on seventh street. Juanda, sensing he was beat, threw a chip towards Phan as though he knew he was beat, but couldn't bring himself to fold.
Juanda's instincts were correct. He couldn't beat Phans' king-high flush, and is down to 26,300, while Phan climbed to 28,100.
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