Sitting in the small blind, Mark Newhouse called a preflop raise to 250. On a three-way flop of , Newhouse led out for 400. Action folded to the preflop raiser, who raised for all of his chips to 1,650. Newhouse called with queen-ten; his opponent showed kings. The turn and the river were blanks and the pot went to Newhouse's opponent.
As we approach the first break, Newhouse's stack is about 4900.