In a good way - his stack has done nothing but rise in the first two levels, topping 38,000 recently. However he found that the massage he was receiving became so vigorous (that sort of super-fast chop thing up and down the spine) that he tried to pause before threbetting preflop to give his masseuse time to move on to something less disruptive. No, she wasn't going to move, and Eames got giggles from his table as he said, "E-e-eigh-t-t-een-hu-u-n-n-n-d red," throwing out 2k.
Only Andy Bloch called him, and they saw a flop. It looked like neither player was interested in this, or the turn, but the checking ended on the river when Eames bet out 3,200 and Bloch passed.
James Dempsey opened to 500 from UTG+1 and got called by Brandon Cantu, Joe Beevers and Huck Seed before the big blind reraised to 3,500.
Dempsey, Cantu and Beevers all folded fairly sharpish but Seed was taking his time.
"You can't represent much!" laughed the big blind.
"No, but I think I have the best hand," Seed replied, "I can have ace-king or queens."
"You can never have queens!" the big blind continued, "maybe ace-king...top of your range."
At this point, Seed began to play with three orange 5k chips in his hand and it looked as though he would throw them in the middle, "I think it's a gamble, do I want to gamble? Maybe you fold? I don't know..."
"You want to bet on that?" said the big blind confidently.
"I don't know," admitted Seed, "maybe you fold ace-queen."
The former Main Event champion agonised for a little longer before eventually folding his hand.
"You show, I show," said the big blind.
Seed refused though, "I want to feel stupid, not look stupid."
"I was calling a shove," his opponent claimed, "I had the second nuts."
Leo Margets, who was the last woman standing in the 2009 WSOP Main Event, is currently on 35,000. She raised her opponent's lead of 1,600 to 3,300 on a board, before firing out for 6,100 on the river.
After her opponent reluctantly relinquished his hand, her tablemates begged for her to reveal, but the Spanish starlett didn't divulge, simply sliding her cards into the muck and moving on to the next hand.
Nice double up for the cigar-chomping Hoyt Corkins. He has just doubled up to 40,000 on a board showing on the end which brought a tap of the table and a "Nice hand sir" from his opponent.
William Molson opened to 400 under the gun, and he was called by Yasuhiro Waki and small blind Joe Serock. Big blind Kevin MacPhee squeezed in a raise to 1,600, and only Serock ducked out of the way.
The other three players saw a flop of , and MacPhee checked. Molson took his cue to bet 2,300 at the pot, and Waki quickly surrendered. MacPhee, though, took a long pause to imitate a statue. He sat rock-still for about two full minutes as Molson fidgeted and struggled to figure out where to look. MacPhee had made him squirm enough, and he finally uncapped his cards and handed them back to the dealer.
With 3,400 in the middle and a flop on the felt, the small blind led for 1,650 and Leo Margets made the call in the big blind, only for Filippo Candio to raise to 3,500 from under the gun.
Both players folded allowing Candio to proudly show , a revealing that was perhaps influenced by my presence with notepad in hand.
The November Niner now has 35,000 after knocking over a few early hurdles.
Frederik Jensen has been eliminated in a confrontation with Bruno Fitoussi. A few thousand in the pot generated either pre or on the flop led to a flurry of raising on the turn, which really reflected how huge the flop had been for both of them. Jensen bet out 2,500 and Fitoussi raised to 5,500 fairly swiftly. Back to Jensen, who considered the board texture and the options represented by his 13,800 stack, and finally moved it all in. Fitoussi snap-called with for the flopped set and Jensen made a noise like, "Shoooo," as he turned . No help on the river and Jensen sighed, "Nice hand," as he took his leave of the WSOPE Championship Event.
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flop. It looked like neither player was interested in this, or the 
turn, but the checking ended on the 
river when Eames bet out 3,200 and Bloch passed.
board, before firing out for 6,100 on the 
river.
board showing 
flop on the felt, the small blind led for 1,650 and Leo Margets made the call in the big blind, only for Filippo Candio to raise to 3,500 from under the gun.
, a revealing that was perhaps influenced by my presence with notepad in hand.
. No help on the river and Jensen sighed, "Nice hand," as he took his leave of the WSOPE Championship Event.