2010 November Niner Joseph Cheong appears to be riding quite a wave right now.
He dumped some chips early before calling a David "Devilfish" Ulliott 375-chip open in position. 2012 October Niner Jeremy Ausmus then potted it from the button and while Ulliott folded, Cheong made the call.
The flop came and Cheong check-raised a 2700-chip bet from Ausmus, dropping two pink 5,000 chips on the felt in front of him. Ausmus folded and Cheong moved a little closer to the 30,000-chip starting stack again.
With the board reading on fourth street, Jennifer Tilly bet 1,200 after two players checked in front of her. The big blind made the call, and the postflop aggressor who had bet 500 on that street mucked his hand. The completed the board, and the big blind fired out 2,600. Tilly quickly called.
The big blind showed , and Tilly's for a straight was easily best.
WSOP bracelet winner Barney Boatman is off to a rather fast start here sitting on close to 45,000 already.
He's played a lot of pots already and since he's short and just a few seats away, it appears whale Bob Bright may have been chief donator in at least a few of them.
With a little bit of loose image now, it was surprise to see five callers when he opened up with a 300-chip preflop raise a minute ago. What was less surprising was to see just two callers when he made it 500 on the flop.
Everybody checked the club-flush draw completing turn, but when the player in the small blind bet 1,500 on the river, Boatman and the third man in the hand let it get through.
Antonio Esfandiari just took a seat at Table 367, and he hollered something at Jason Somerville, who promptly began walking over from a neighboring table.
"I love when you see a guy who owes you money, and he just walks over right away and pays you," Esfandiari said as Somerville handed him a stack of chips. "Can you imagine if it was always like that?"
Noah Schwartz check-called 450 on a flop against Main Event fourth-place finisher Sylvain Loosli, and a turned. Schwartz check-called 850 this time, and both players checked the river.
"Who shows first?" Schwartz said with a smile, knowing full well it was him.
Loosli smiled and waited for Schwartz to show, and he turned over for a flush.
"I want to see that hand!" Schwartz said. "You're so lucky you get to just muck."
Almost ten years after her Academy Award nomination for her role as Olive in 1994's Bullets Over Broadway, Jennifer Tilly won the 2005 WSOP Ladies Championship to become the first combination WSOP bracelet winner and Academy Award Nominee in history.
She's off to pretty fast start here in the $10k Pot-Limit Championship already, defending her big blind from a 300-chip late position raise that Amir Lehavot also called from the button.
Tilly took the lead making it 400 on the flop and only the original raiser made the call. Tilly fired again at the flop, this time making it 800 and getting another call. But on the river, when she three-barreled to 1,700, it was enough to take down the early pot.