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Bluff-Master Lindgren
With the board reading , Lindgren fired out 14,000 on the turn and after his opponent took a long think, got a call. The river was the and Lindgren bet enough to set his opponent all in. After another few tortured moments in the tank, the young Brit gave it up. Lindgren flashed the as he dragged the pot.
[user24788]
Phil He11muth - On Life Support
Phil Hellmuth is short-stacked with about 8,000. He's on death watch as a mob of reporters and railbirds are circling his table like vultures, waiting to pick apart his dead carcass.
Hellmuth: "I can't believe that I'm still here. I won one hand in the last four rounds. Wait, maybe it was five rounds. I can't believe it. Am I really still here?"
[user46298]
I don't know what it is about the Shadow Bar -- the soothingly-dimmed lighting, the glowing blue dance floor with the Feature Table perched upon it, the star-studded table itself (Lisandro added to the Hansen/Harman/Coren/Bjorin mix)... Busted players and pure spectators alike, like Paul Jackson, Neil Channing, and now Daniel Negreanu come to hang out and watch the end of today's action. Negreanu enquired as to Jennifer Harman's stack -- it's about 43,000 and could have been double or bust -- if she'd been called after reraising all in preflop just a minute ago.
Summary of the less-interesting hands (most pots are being taken without a flop) -- 2x Gus Hansen preflop reraise (win), 1x Rehne Pedersen preflop reraise (win), 3x Gus Hansen preflop raise (win), 2x Chris Bjorin preflop raise (win).
[user4144]
Gus Hansen might be leading the way at the moment, but Janne Lamsa isn't too far behind with 275,000. Here are the rest of the chip counts from his table:
Seat 1: Sergey Feklisov -- 105,000
Seat 1: Dave Colclough -- 103,500
Seat 3: Neil Pearson -- 37,600
Seat 4: Jani Sointula -- 54,600
Seat 5: John Ridge -- 54,600
Seat 6: Phillip Hilm -- 31,600
Seat 7: R W Stain -- 49,200
Seat 8: Janne Lamsa -- 275,000
Seat 9: Gary Jones -- 34,700
[user4144]
Does anyone else's head feel heavy?
Breaking news...
Erick Lindgren has just broken the head massage record after having his cerebral temple tampered with for over six hours. The masseuse has utilised a number of techniques, from the skull clamp to the sandpaper rub, but my favourite so far is the multiple karate chop, which she performed with genuine excellence.
As Jonno suggests that, "He must have a lot to think about," I believe he's simply forgotten she's there and won't be happy about the hefty bill. Whether the head massage is more expensive than any other body part, I'm unsure, but I fear that when she finally stops, Erick Lindgren's head might melt or fall off, and no one wants to see that, especially if it gets goo all over the table.
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The day could not end soon enough for Huseyin Yilmaz. After losing the huge pot to Annie Duke, the entire table has started coming over the top of him -- a lot. He looks tired and frustrated. He still has over 100k to take to Day 2, however.
At the same table, Annie Duke is very active late on and capitalising on her big stack.
[user46298]
Jennifer Harman - not busted by Gus today
Chris Bjorin moved his short stack in preflop, giving Gus Hansen pause for thought before he called with his . Bjorin showed the live ...
The board came down , emphatically non-paint-y and knocked out Bjorin on the penultimate hand of the night.
Jennifer Harman remarked to Gus, "You know you've busted every player at this table..."
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RW Stain
On the very last hand of the night, actor Neil Pearson (of "Drop the Dead Donkey" fame) raised to 6k from the button after Dave Colclough had limped for 1.2k in the cutoff.
R W Stain dwelt up in the big blind, before pushing all in for 48.8k. Neil only had around half that, but he still made a cracking call with , perhaps the threat of returning as a short stack influencing his decision.
Stain flipped over and started praying for an eight. However, although an eight failed to arrive, a split pot did, the board meaning Pearson returns on Friday with a short stack whether he likes it or not.
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, Lindgren fired out 14,000 on the turn and after his opponent took a long think, got a call. The river was the 
and Lindgren bet enough to set his opponent all in. After another few tortured moments in the tank, the young Brit gave it up. Lindgren flashed the 
as he dragged the pot. 
. Bjorin showed the live 
...
, perhaps the threat of returning as a short stack influencing his decision.
and started praying for an eight. However, although an eight failed to arrive, a split pot did, the 
board meaning Pearson returns on Friday with a short stack whether he likes it or not.
. The turn was the 
