Simon Deadman has only been in Las Vegas for four days and he already has his first WSOP cash of the series. Anyone who follows British poker will not be surprised at all by that fact. For those of you who are not so clued up on poker in the UK, let us tell you a bit about Mr Deadman.
Deadman cut his teeth in the poker world by grinding the low-to-medium buy-ins at the Nottingham-based Dusk Till Dawn poker club. It was here that Deadman had his first five-fogue score, £24,684 to be exact, when he won the DTD monthly £300 tournament in 2011. One month later, Deadman finished third in a £1,000 buy-in GUKPT Main Event for an additional £21,930.
If you check out Deadman's live tournament results, you will discover they are littered with five-figures score. The largest of which tops the scales at €67,500, his reward for winning the World Poker Tour National Dublin Main Event in January 2013. We would not be the slightest bit surprised if Deadman banked his first six-figure score here in Las Vegas; Deadman would have to finish fifth or higher to do that in this event.
This is what Dwyte Pilgrim was telling his opponent. Pilgrim was in the big blind for 400. His opponent pushed all in for 2,150 preflop and action folded to Pilgrim. For Pilgrim any two cards were good to play for only five big blinds as he called.
Pilgrim:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Pilgrim's only shot of winning was the straight draw on the turn. It missed and Pilgrim doubled up the short stack. He does not have to worry to much as he had an above average stack of 19,000 after the hand.
Over at the far end of the room, two British players are seated together, locked in deep conversation (probably about the weather, to be honest). David Vamplew, the former EPT London champion, and Neil Channing, an all-round British poker legend, are seated directly next to each other, which could create some interesting hands. Stay tuned.
The $10,000 Ladies Event kicks off tomorrow and it has sparked some conversation over on Table #56.
The players there were discussing how many male players will compete this year, despite the fact it costs $10,000 to enter as a man and female players receiving a $9,000 discount!
The player in Seat 9 said something along the lines of "a bracelet is a bracelet," to which the lady in Seat 1 replied, "Yes, true. But when you're out in the club and a girl asks you about poker and you tell her you've won a bracelet and she asks you in which event, that's not going to impress her!"
She then added, "You're really not going to be able to pick up girls with that line!"
Stay away from the Ladies event's gentlemen. There are plenty of other events you can / could have played in.
Moments ago, we walked past Kevin macPhee's table to see him sat stacking chips worth 23,700, but as soon as we returned to our station to update his count we were greeted with a tweet from MacPhee himself, informing the Twitterverse that he was up to 46,000.
Action started on Russell Crane who started it up with a raise to 800. Sam Grafton made the call and action was on the always dangerous Joseph Cheong. He could not resist but to raise it to 2,500. Crane than took some time to act.
Eventually he reraised to 5,000. This got Grafton out of the way but Cheong folded. The flop came . Crane then bet out 4,400. Cheong had a tough decision as the bet was for one third his own stack. Eventually Cheong let it go. Crane raked in the pot and moved up to 42,000.
Grafton who was out of his seat during the flop came back and had some banter with Cheong.
Grafton, "You had to raise (preflop) didn't you. Couldn't let me in there with my jack-ten. I could have doubled." He pretty much ended his claims by announcing to the table, "We all didn't just play the $100k buy in yesterday!"
As long as Grafton and Cheong are at the same table, we are sure to see more praise of how good Mr. Cheong is.
Nick Abou Risk's stack has taken a turn for the worse, but he is trying his hardest to change that.
We saw him move all in for 3,000 with and double up against the when the board ran out and then a couple of hands later Risk saw Simon Deadman open to 800 and he shipped in his stack over the top of him. Deadman folded and Risk added some chips to his stack.
Deadman's stack has swelled to 23,000 thanks to, "I keep getting kings and they shove on me with sevens." Story checks out.
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and Pilgrim's only shot of winning was the straight draw on the turn. It missed and Pilgrim doubled up the short stack. He does not have to worry to much as he had an above average stack of 19,000 after the hand.
. Crane then bet out 4,400. Cheong had a tough decision as the bet was for one third his own stack. Eventually Cheong let it go. Crane raked in the pot and moved up to 42,000.
when the board ran out 
and then a couple of hands later Risk saw Simon Deadman open to 800 and he shipped in his stack over the top of him. Deadman folded and Risk added some chips to his stack.