Dinner Time
That's a quick four levels in the books. Players are now racing off to their chosen dinner spots for an hour (as are we).
That's a quick four levels in the books. Players are now racing off to their chosen dinner spots for an hour (as are we).
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
I'll admit that I'm no change100. I ould never deliver a fashion report with her wit or her panache. Even if I could, I'm not qualified to deliver a fashion report. But I can make a few observations, and I think that the sartorial selection of the day has got to be Tom "DonkeyBomber" Schneider's blue and white checkered pants. They'd look badly out of place on a golf course. Here in the Amazon Room they seem downright alien.
Just before dinner, Humberto Brenes' stack had fallen to dangerous levels. He somehow made it to dinner, then got his chips in the middle shortly after coming back. Brenes was all in on the turn of a board with against one opponent. The river fell , not enough for Brenes to scoop the pot against his opponent's two pair. "The Shark" is still hungry for chips.
Barry Greenstein had only a few chips left on the dinner break, but he managed to double up when he spiked a set of kings with to quarter an opponent with on a board. After than hand, he was up to a massive 1,400 chips.
A few hands later, he was all in again. Greenstein limped, and Daniel Negreanu raised. Both the big blind and Greenstein called to see an flop. The big blind bet out, Barry called, and so did Negreanu. The turn was the , ending the possibility of a low half, and the big blind fired again. Greenstein made another call, but Negreanu gave up. After the on the river, the big blind bet a third time, and Greenstein moved all in for an extra 225 chips. His opponent called and showed for Broadway. Barry's gave him a raggy flush, but that was enough to scoop and more than double up to workable 3,850.
Marco Traniello got his last 700 chips in the middle preflop from under the gun with against an opponent with . He failed to make a low or get lucky for the high, and he's on his way home.
Some time before dinner, Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer joined PokerStars Team Online Pro George Lind at a table in the Blue Section. The two were chatting with each other very amiably. Back from dinner, however, the two Georges are a study in contrasts. Lind still seems quite chipper, sitting behind a stack of 11,500 chips. Danzer, on the other hand, is sunk deep into his chair, holding his face in his hands as his stack has shrunk to just 800 chips. Danzer was stone silent while considering whether to go with a hand after a player raised to 400 and another player called; Lind was the one chuckling when Danzer finally wrinkled his face in disgust and threw the hand away.
It's unclear how much longer these two Team PokerStars Pros will be seated next to each other, but for now it seems that Lind has the best seat.
Tony G check-called a bet from his lone opponent on a flop. Same action after the turn. Then the G led out on the river, and the other player just called. Tony held , giving him the nut straight. His opponent flashed aces on their way to the muck.
David Bach recently joined former WSOP TD Matt Savage's table in the center of the Blue Section. The two were part of a three-way flop that came down . Both checked to the third player and then called one bet. It was the same action on the turn, with Savage verbally checking and Bach silently rapping the table before calling a bet.
On the river , Savage led into his two opponents. Bach folded, but the third player raised. Savage dejectedly open-mucked and then threw in the rest of his cards without calling the last bet.
Savage looks to be down to about 3,000 chips after losing that hand.
Maybe the Ivey stare is too much to take on a full stomach. David Sklansky and David Benyamine have both vacated their seats at his table in the last few minutes.