As far as fields go, the crowd that assembled for this Mixed-Max event was about as good as it gets. It's a veritable who's-who of poker in here right now, and we'd venture to say we know about 80-90% of the players who began the day. Still, there are a couple particularly tough spots in the room, and Table 6 is pretty much all of them.
Just look at this lineup that's seated over there right now.
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony G | 41,000 |
| 2 | James Bord | 11,000 |
| 3 | Carlos Mortensen | 54,000 |
| 4 | Andrew Robl | 59,000 |
| 5 | Bruno Fitoussi | 78,000 |
| 6 | Erik Seidel | 75,000 |
| 7 | Sam Stein | 76,000 |
| 8 | Michael Mizrachi | 87,000 |
| 9 | David Benyamine | 33,000 |
The nine of those men have 14 bracelets between them, along with nearly $60 million in combined career tournament cashes -- $58,379,464, if you're scoring at home. Three of those gentleman (Seidel, Mizrachi, Mortensen) have more than $10 million to their credit, and that's a pretty tough table to try and escape from. Even Seidel was lamenting his plight as he joined the table with his rack of chips a moment ago. After hinting that he'd be unlikely to play many pots, he glanced up at the clock and said, "I hope I can survive for another 36 minutes."
where Vladimir Shchemelev checked first to act. David Vamplew only had 14,825 chips left, and there was already more than that in the middle, so the Scot went ahead and stuck the last of his stack in. Shchemelev called instantly, and Vamplew knew the news would not be good.
river, but he had just enough chips to keep from going broke. Shchemelev only had 13,075, so he's doubled and crippled Vamplew down to practically nothing.
from the deck means we'll play that many hands at each table. And then, the bags.
against pocket fours for Rettenmaier and pocket jacks for Allibay. The turn brought a 
and the river an 
. Dwan finished with a straight and saw his stack boom to 115,000 in chips. To start the hand, Rettenmaier held about 20,000 in chips and Allibay had around 39,000.
flop, Nordkvist made the call and then Bejedal also called. The three players witnessed the 
land on the turn and Billirakis checked. Nordkvist fired 12,500 and Bejedal called. Billirakis folded. After the river completed the board with the 
, Nordkvist bet 17,000. Bejedal made the call.
for a full house, deuces full of aces. Bejedal revealed the 
