James "Flushy" Dempsey is one of the few talkers in the Shadow room, the rest so quiet that without the British bracelet winner, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were all in the library.
Dempsey was in a blind on blind battle calling a bet of 375 on the turn of a 
turn before snap-calling a 550 bet on the 
river. His opponent though, turned over 
and Dempsey mucked his hand, dropping to 1,625 as a result.
An early-position player raised to 125 and Michael Greco called from the next seat. Action then moved around the table to Matthew Parvis in the cutoff seat. He tossed in a reraise to 425. Everyone folded and Parvis picked up the pot.
After finalling the six-handed event only yesterday, David Peters has returned today in another tempt to bag his first bracelet. It's been a poor start, however, for the young American, as his stack has already been dissected in half.
On his last hand, I saw him lead out for 550 into a 
board, only for his opponent to make a minimum raise to 1,100. Peters lay down his hand to leave him with just under 1,500, but it showed how vital every chip is at this stage with the stacks starting off so short.
Meanwhile, Jason Mercier has clambered his way towards the neighbouring table, and will be commencing his venture for bracelet #2.
Chris Moorman fired out a bet of 250 on a 
but found himself being raised to 575 by his opponent. Moorman made the call before slowly and deliberately checking the 
turn and seeing a 975 chip bet being fired out at.
Moorman then slid out his entire stack and moved all-in for 3,500 total resulting a fairly speedy fold from said foe.
Moorman up to about 6,000.
He also told us about the demise of Alex Martin, the latter having apparently pushed on a Jack-high board with 
but ran into 
.
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It would seem as though the field are playing tighter than an Italian waiter's pants up here on the balcony, as we've witnessed very little in the way of early casualties
Breaking that trend, however, was Trevor Reardon, whose last several hundred chips hit the middle with 
from middle position. His neighbour made the call with 
, and after an uneventful 
board, the British veteran was gone, 20 minutes shy of the break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,500
2,500
|
2,500 |
|
5,500
700
|
700 |
|
||
|
3,800
1,900
|
1,900 |
|
3,700
700
|
700 |
|
||
|
3,000
700
|
700 |
|
|
||
|
3,000 | |
|
|
||
|
2,975
25
|
25 |
|
2,625
375
|
375 |
|
|
1,675
1,325
|
1,325 |
|
1,175
450
|
450 |
|
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|
|
Busted | |
Last year's winner of this event, JP Kelly has just arrived at the tournament, "Nice stack Flushy," he said walking past his friend James Dempsey's paltry 1,175 in chips and moved into the seat next to Chris Moorman.
Dempsey pointed out he was a short stack in the Pot-Limit Hold'em event that he won this summer (following in Kelly's footsteps who won it the previous year) but he is up against it at the moment.
They (well, Tony G, mainly) say you need "heart" in poker, but in Jon Lundy's case, he needed five to stay in the event. All in with 
, he came unstuck against 
with the flop reading 
. No flush on the 
turn and river and Lundy was out, evidently disappointed, but still a gentleman as he left.
Just before the break started, JP Kelly got all-in with 
against Chris Moorman's but the former managed to four-flush to much hilarity from their friends. Kelly is up to an instant 6,000 while Moorman dropped back to his starting stack.
"It's what the crowd wanted!" shouted James Dempsey.
"Live poker..." sighed Moorman.
