Tournament Tidbits
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A gentleman in the far corner of the Red section just shot out of his chair and yelled, "Mama is in the house! ... Mama is in the house!" a few times. He appeared to be sweating his own all in, repeating his tag line every time a new, safe card appeared. There was one more, "Mama is in the HOUSE!!!" as the river card kept him alive and double him up to, well... some amount of chips.
Also in the Red section, there is a rather strong, um, odor coming from somewhere in the deep inner reaches of the section. It smells rather like someone is having a party over there. Or else someone needs to do their shirt laundry. Either way, it's definitely better than some of the odors that the players will be emanating over the next two weeks.
Tom Dwan is wearing an interesting accessory today. He's been branded, and we're not talking about a poker site patch. Dwan is wearing a button with a picture of Peter Jetten hugging a koala. We don't know the details of the prop bet. All we know is Dwan lost, so has to wear the button as long as he remains alive in the Main Event. Dwan tweeted at Jetten, "Everytime I win a pot it tilts me that I may need to wear a button imprinted w/ ur koala loving face longer. And if I lose I'm tilted b/c its the main event and I wanna win it."
With Jerry Yang's recent elimination, we are left with four Main Event champions in our Day 1c field. We haven't heard much from Joe Cada today, buried away in the confines of the main ESPN featured table; he's holding pretty steady, though. Johnny Chan, well he's doing quite a bit more than holding steady here in the Red section. The Orient Express is full steam ahead with a near-chip-leading count of 141,000, and there's no doubt who the conductor is at Table 352. Scotty Nguyen and Carlos Mortensen are our other two face-on-the-wall-in-the-Amazon -Room guys, and they're both below starting stack.