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Melissa Castello caught up with PokerRoad entrepreneur Joe Sebok during a recent break and the two discussed Bikram Yoga, Facebook and of course, a lil poker.
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
on a board of 
. He elected to call a 500-chip bet to take a heads-up river that filled his straight draw, 
. Shorr's opponent checked, then called a bet of 1,400. He couldn't beat Shorr's straight. As a result, Shorr is up to 30,000.We also saw Barry Greenstein take 5,000 chips off of an opponent in a heads-up pot. Greenstein check-called a bet of 1,000 on a flop of
, then check-called 4,000 more after the turn fell 
. Both players checked the river 
, with Greenstein turning over 
for top pair. That was a winner.John "the Razor" Phan is also steadily chipping up. He was the only one of three opponents to call a bet of 1,000 from an early position player on a board of
. When the turn fell 
, Phan's opponent checked and then folded to a bet of 2,000.
on the same hand Corkins was dealt 
. All of the chips wound up in the middle, with the board running out 
. That made Corkins' aces the best hand. He's up to 40,000, while Levy slips to 7,000.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
. He bet pot (1,200) on the flop, pot (3,500) on the turn and 6,500 on the river. His lone opponent called him in position all three times. At showdown, we didn't quite hear Williams, but we think he might have said, "Jack-high." Whatever he did say, his opponent turned over 
for trip fours. Williams is still ok; he has 22,000 chips.
Friedman, an L.A. native, is sitting with 17,500 in chips as we approach the third break of the day.
. Rajkumar made it 900 to go, folding the preflop raiser. The other player check-raised to 3,200; Rajkumar called.Both players checked the
turn. When the river paired the board with the 
, Rajkumar's opponent made it 3,000 to go. Rajkumar reluctantly called and was shown 
for jacks full of fours. He mucked his hand and slipped in the counts to 8,500.
We didn't hear any "Aiyah!" from Daniel Negreanu's table, but if we were down at the cash game tables we surely would have. Negreanu wound up all in against one opponent on a board of
. Negreanu's opponent flopped a straight with 
; Negreanu flopped a bigger straight with 
. When the river blanked out a harmless
, Negreanu collected the pot to increase his count to 60,000. His opponent staggered out of the tournament room.