[user46298]
SPORTSMAN -- This venue surely must win the action-packed prize for the early session: they've already broken a table and spread the occupants through the room. Annie Duke is grateful for the table change not because she was doing badly in her first seat, but because now she's on 51,000, having just eliminated Christoffer Johnson.
The board read and around 15k per player was in the middle, the cards on their backs.
Duke:
Johnson:
They waited while a TV camera arrived, and Annie Duke said, "At least I can't go broke. The bad news is, he has outs." The river wasn't one of them, though, and Annie Duke cements her chip leader status, saying, "I cold decked him - no skill in that one."
With the nearest table suddenly swamped with railers and cameramen alike, my ears perked up and I raced over to grab the action. Surprisingly, neither Harman or Ferguson were involved, which would have explained the onlooker interest, instead Deepack Parmar and Isaac Baron the two players waging war.
When I joined the action, there was precisely 4,325 in the pot with the board reading . Isaac had bet 3,100 on the river only to be re-raised to 6,650 by Deepack.
Donning an Arsenal shirt, so obviously a not a Londoner (ahem), Deepack adopting a focused pose equipped with first class poker face.
Amid the tension, Harman and Ferguson talked across the table like a couple of housewives at the launderette as they awaited the conclusion of the hand. Meanwhile, Isaac huffed and puffed like the big bad wolf before making the call and being shown .
Isaac mucked without showing leaving Deepack to scoop in the pot quicker than an alligator at feeding time.
[user4144]
Horsing aound earlier in the week
From the floor of the Empire...
Whilst Sarah Taylor rules the roost downstairs, another female player in Jennifer Harman is running the show out on the other four tables with 32,825.
However, what I want to see is Harman take a pot off Andy Bloch so I can use the headline 'Jenny from the Bloch'. I've been preparing this little gem for 2 years now, and have never found the opportunity to use it... until now!
[user46298]
SPORTSMAN -- The action continues apace over here, with the chips starting to pool in some stacks as they drain from others. Andreas Krause was the latest casualty, adding more chips to Feliksov's stack. It was Annie Duke who bet first into a fourway pot with a flop of . Her 625 was promptly raised by Feliksov to 2,100, only for button Krause to move all in for double that bet. He was duly called:
Feliksov:
Krause:
And with the second on the turn, Krause was already standing up for the blank on the river.
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Upwardly mobile stacks:
Dean Sanders 43,000
Huseyin Yilmaz 41,500
Dario Minieri 33,000
Annie Duke 34,800
[user25067]
THE FIFTY-- Just after Michael Watson was sent to the rail when his set was flushed out on the river, we heard the fateful words "all in and call!" over on Table 20.
With the board reading on the turn, Gijsbertus Spijkers (say that five times really fast) raised Jeffrey Garza's 5K bet to 14,000. Garza immediately moved in and and Spijkers called. Cameras swarmed the table as Garza said "nuts!" turning over the , while Spijkers tabled and had ten outs to pair the board for a full house. The river blanked out, however and Garza doubled up while Spijkers hit the rail, our second casualty here at the Fifty.
[user3511]
Devilfish Schools his table
From the Sportsman.....
A few observations early from the Sportsman. The action is pretty quiet and subdued.
Annie Duke has won a series of big pots and has already more than doubled up.
The Devilfish has been lecturing his table on how they should be playing X hand at X time and how they were wrong to play it the way they did. What a good guy he is for giving them a free masterclass, I assume he gets 5% of any winnings?
There are only five players at Paul Wasickas table and several chips stacks unaccounted for. Being a heads up champ this shorthanded scenario should suit him.
At David Williams table the dealer has been replaced, by someone who was clearly the dealers twin brother. Lots of conused faces over there.
Humberto is being very kind and singing to his table.
With about 700 in the middle, Paul Ephresen led at the pot, and Michael Watson raised. The bets kept escalating until Ephresen, with 5,000 in the middle was faced with a call that would take 98% of his chips if he lost the pot. The board read .
Paul called and rolled over .
Watson flipped over for the flopped set.
The board ran out , giving Paul the flush. Michael Watson is eliminated from the tournament.
[user24788]
From the floor of the Empire Casino...
On a flop of and with 2,100 in the pot, William Thorson bet the pot, Fedorus raised, and Thorson moved all in for 6,600 total. David Fedorus called. The players turned up their hands.
Thorson:
Fedorus:
Thorson was ahead with twopair and Fedorus had an open-ended straight draw. Then came the delay. The dealer had to call the floor over whenever there's an all in. Then the floor called the camera crew in order to capture the moment on film. Since the table was downstairs it took a few minutes for the crew to arrive.
"What are we waiting for?" asked Patrick Bruel. "Did you have to call Las Vegas to get permission to deal?"
A group of almost ten people burst into the room with cameras and other sound equipment as a wall of people surrounded the table.
"Is the Queen here too?" wondered Bruel.
I looked around and did not see her majesty the Queen on the rail. It took another few moments before the crew were set up before the action continued. The dealer burned one card and then dealt the turn. The fell and Thorson smiled. That gave him quads and Fedorus was drawing dead.
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and around 15k per player was in the middle, the cards on their backs.
wasn't one of them, though, and Annie Duke cements her chip leader status, saying, "I cold decked him - no skill in that one."
. Isaac had bet 3,100 on the river only to be re-raised to 6,650 by Deepack.
. 
, William Thorson moved all in for his last 9,750. RW Stain called.
and a dejected Thorson headed to the rail.
and adds 25% to his stack.
on the river.
on the turn, Gijsbertus Spijkers (say that five times really fast) raised Jeffrey Garza's 5K bet to 14,000. Garza immediately moved in and and Spijkers called. Cameras swarmed the table as Garza said "nuts!" turning over the 
and had ten outs to pair the board for a full house. The river blanked out, however and Garza doubled up while Spijkers hit the rail, our second casualty here at the Fifty.
