We picked up the action at Steve Wong's table on fifth street. A player with ace-jack led out for a bet that Wong raised, folding Linda Johnson. Wong's opponent called.
On sixth street, Wong made open nines while his opponent made open aces. Wong's opponent bet, then called when Wong raised for the second street in a row.
Both players checked the river. At showdown, Wong produced the s his hole cards, aces and nines. His opponent mucked, allowing Wong to climb to 7,000 in chips.
Earlier we wrote about logistical issues. We discovered another such issue chatting with Matt Savage on the last break. He said he was in the Pavilion Room at a table in the Yellow Section.
Say what? There are tables in the Yellow Section?
We thought the overflow tables were limited to the White Section. Not so much. Turns out there are an additional 20-odd tables in the Yellow Section, many of them filled with pros who registered late. We're updating the chip counts page to include them, but a sample includes Liv Boeree, Howard Lederer, John Juanda, and Amnon Filippi.
We caught the hand on fourth street where Morrison called his opponent's bet. He did the same on fifth street, but opted to fold his hand on sixth street, showing . His opponent's board looked mighty good and Morrison chose to cut his losses.
Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem just took a minor hit in the latest stud round at his table.
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Hachem's completion on third street was called by his opponent. Hachem stayed in the lead on fourth street and bet again, receiving a call from his opponent. On fifth street Hachem lost the lead on the board and his opponent bet his pair of threes. Hachem called and the same action took place on sixth street.
On seventh street his opponent bet Hachem raised. Unfortunately for Hachem, his opponent made it three bets and Hachem made the unhappy call, seeing his opponent table for threes full of tens to win the hand.
Ron Wares is off to a quick start in this H.O.R.S.E. event, increasing his count to more than 6,000 after a hand of Omaha Hi/Lo. Wares, in the cutoff, was heads-up to a flop of against the button player. Wares bet and was called.
The action was the same when the turn came . The river paired nines, , with no low on board. Both players checked, prompting Wares to table the winner, for two pair, aces and nines.
There's been a lot of confusion and calls for floors in the early levels of this tournament -- from problems with antes, to tables spread across multiple rooms, to even problems with chip counters.
The chip counters are what dealers use so that they know when to switch games. At the WSOP, the game switches every eight hands. Dealers have eight purple chips in their racks that they move from one side of the rack to the other every hand. When all eight chips have been moved from the left side of the rack to the right side of the rack, the game switches.
At Brandon Cantu's table, the dealer put the chip counters out into each stack. Nobody at the table knew why they had the extra purple chip until a floor was summoned to set matters straight.
At a table in Blue, a player was overheard to ask the dealer, "Do they have antes in the hold'em rounds later in the tournament?" Someone at the table replied that H.O.R.S.E. tournaments never have antes for hold'em.
The player who asked the question, perhaps in an effort to appear less ignorant, replied, "Well I've never posted a blind in a stud tournament before," referring to the early confusion over the button ante in the stud games for Level 1.
The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, because it demands expertise in five different games, is perceived to be an excellent value by many pros. Almost definitely there are players in this field that have never played one or more of the games on offer. So it's no surprise that Team PokerStars is out in full force.
Victor Ramdin (Team USA), Katja Thater (Team Germany), Daniel Negreanu (Team Canada), Johannes Steindl (Team Austria), Lex Veldhuis (Team Netherlands), and George Lind III and Sebastien Sabic (Team Online) have all entered the field already. A few more late stragglers may make their way in before registration ends.
And in what has to be the weirdest quirk of random table draws that we've seen so far this WSOP, 2004 Main Event Winner and Team USA Pro Greg Raymer is seated at Orange 316, Seat 3 -- right next to 2005 Main Event Winner and Team Australia Pro Joe Hachem. The other players at the table had a good chuckle when Raymer and Hachem took their seats.
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s his hole cards, aces and nines. His opponent mucked, allowing Wong to climb to 7,000 in chips.
. His opponent's board looked mighty good and Morrison chose to cut his losses.
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for threes full of tens to win the hand.
against the button player. Wares bet and was called.
, with no low on board. Both players checked, prompting Wares to table the winner, 
