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Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
In the vast majority of Ladies events played these days, there is likely to be one or two men who exercise their rights by crashing the party. And while their decision to enter an event ostensibly reserved for women is theirs and theirs alone, the sight of a bearded man duking it out against a table ringed with women always causes a bit of a stir in the room.
Today, that man is Alex Goldberg, and while he readily admitted "I'm the jerk today, not ashamed of it," he appears to be enjoying himself thus far here today. Goldberg is the lone non-lady to enter the tournament at this early juncture, but we will be sure to let you know if any further incursions into the land of ladies is made as the day rolls on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
across the felt the action was checked three times until cutoff fired out a bet of 350. Unimpressed, Petrovskaya opted to raise the action to 1,500, and the cutoff flatted to see the 
fall on fourth street.
to the table to pair the board.
with the confidence, believing her full house to have bested a likely club flush.
, tabling the best boat on board to claim ownership of the huge pot. Petrovskaya, an adept student of the game who recently placed 4th in another Atlantic City tournament, will now be a force to contend with as she now holds a big stack with which to bully her opponents.
and that's when the action ramped up considerably.
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and Sims continued her hyper-aggression by firing out a bet of 11,000, forcing a minute or two of tanking from the button. Eventually though, she opted to look Sims up, which was a bad idea because her series of overbets had disguised a flopped full house with 
. Sims dragged the massive pot to nearly double her starting stack on just the second hand she saw.
