Candid Camera
A player in middle position opened with a raise, and Miami John Cernuto reraised to 2,200 two seats over. When it came back to the original raiser, he moved all in for 12,225, and Cernuto quickly called to put him at-risk.
"All in and a call!" the dealer announced. Like a team of drunken toddlers, the camera crew clumsily made their way to the table. In fairness to them, they're trying to lug a couple dozen pounds of equipment through spaces too narrow for Calista Flockhart to squeeze through. In any event, at least one table was knocked over, and at least one glass was broken as they tried to give their cameras a glimpse of the small, really uninteresting race. "This Day 1 stuff is stupid," Jason Mercier said from across the table. Agreed.
In any event, the cards were already laying on their backs by the time the cameras arrived:
Cernuto:
Opponent:
There was a king on the flop to keep the at-risk player alive, and he survived to double up over 25,000. Cernuto is still up over 40,000, though that's about half of what he had early in the day.