Faraz Jaka has managed to double up in the first few hand and we took a stroll by his table to see him flexing his newfound strength.
A player acting under the gun had raised to 150 with Jaka re-raising to 350 from the cutoff. Action folded to the initial raiser who made the call.
The flop came and action was checked to Jaka who bet 325 into the pot, getting a call from his opponent. When the came on the turn, Jaka's opponent check-called again, this time for 800.
The river was the and once more action was checked to Jaka, who threw in a bet for about 5,000, getting his opponent to fold.
When the hand was over Jaka flipped up his cards to show and his opponent said, "Nice hand," before continuing with "Oh, you were playing the board, too?"
I've always wondered what the ruling would be if this situation occurred, and finally I have my answer. At the far end of the room, there was just one player seated at his table, the other nine players either nursing hangovers or looking for the cardroom in Rio, Brazil. There was an initial moment of uncertainty, but it was ultimately ruled that the player would simply have to wait for at least one opponent to arrived before being able to play.
This seemed a little unfair to me, as it's not his fault that he was on time and others weren't, so to reward his punctuality, we're going to name him. "This is stupid," he mumbled as we left, but hopefully a mention on the PokerNews updates (sponsored by - ahem - PokerStars.com) will make up for any lost time: Kyle 'mariner sheep' Huffman of Seattle, Washinton. What the hell, let's tag him up too!
There's a rather subdued atmosphere in the Pavillion Room today, rising suspicion that I missed a good party last night. A quick scour around the cardroom revealed little in the way of 'famous faces', but it's to be expected. There's a definite correlation between fame and punctuality when it comes the lower buy-in events, and I would have been surprised to see Phil Hellmuth tucked up in his seat as Jack Effell announced "shuffle up and deal". The Poker Brat is down to play this event, so I'm sure when he does arrive (around Level 3 is my prediction), the fun and frolics will begin.
Welcome to Event #45. That's right, we've already reached the 45th event of this year's World Series of Poker. It's hard to believe we're already at this point. That said, there's still a lot of work to be done. We're not even close to the Main Event just yet, and for the people lining up outside the Pavilion to play today's event the work is just getting started.
$1,500 Events have been able to garner their fair share of media attention this year. Tom Dwan made a ton of noise when he final-tabled Event #11 and came a few hands away from potentially bankrupting Bobby's Room. We'll no doubt see a lot of familiar faces throughout the day as pros try to take advantage of the last dozen or so chances they have to take home a bracelet before the series concludes.
Stay with us through the day as we bring you every flop, turn and river on the way to awarding one more bracelet.
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and action was checked to Jaka who bet 325 into the pot, getting a call from his opponent. When the 
came on the turn, Jaka's opponent check-called again, this time for 800.
and his opponent said, "Nice hand," before continuing with "Oh, you were playing the board, too?"