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Golser - T-Shirt of the Day
Yes, it's wonderful what a starting stack of 20,000 can do in terms of the number of raises you can make back at the same person before folding. It seems Ketul Nathwani, aggressive UK tournament player, new-ish to the live scene but looking comfortable here on a 30,000 stack, wanted to find this out. He'd raised on the cutoff, and found button Steve Zolotow reraising to 1,150. Back to Nathwani who repopped him a further 2,500. I know this makes it sound like they were moving very fast, but these decisions took time. Especially the one where Zolotow then raises yet again, what looked like around 6,000. The quickest decision yet was the instapass of Nathwani.
A similar situation developed on another table almost simultaneously - William Stevenson (also in the cutoff) wasn't having any of Markus Golser's preflop raise, and made it 2,025, only to fold when Golser made it 6,000.
I know it's not totally obvious from his picture, but Golser is wearing a T-shirt with a sort of red, white and blue rhinestoned skull covering the front, with jeweled flowers poking out of its head on the left hand side. Extraordinary.
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In a interesting twist of fate, WSOP main event finalists Scott Montgomery and Craig Marquis have drawn seats next to each other. No doubt a nice warm-up before the final in November.
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With a large amount of yellow 1K chips in the center of the table, Dale Hoy moved all in for his remaining 5,000 or so on a board. Craig Marquis let out one of those deep sighs that have a meaning of, "I know I'm behind but I'm going to have to call anyway."
He did so and Hoy tabled while Marquis could show only . The was an effective brick on the river and Hoy doubled up.
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Andy Bloch, First Eliminator
I look up after the break and the Coren/Arama/Kostritsyn table has been replaced in its entirety with one featuring Willie Tann, Joe Hachem and Eric Sagstrom. No idea what's going on with that, as the Featured Table remains the same, but I do know who's grown a good stack in the first level...it's Sagstrom on that table, with 42,000.
Elsewhere Ketul Nathwani is approaching 45,000 (although he's got his stack of yellow 1,000 chips nestling behind the towers of green 25s - naughty).
Also sneaking ahead of the pack:
Robin Eibl - 39,000
Karl Mahrenholz - 28,300
Andy Bloch - 43,000 Having busted David Benyamine, he now faces Erica Schoenberg in the same seat!
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The Brat
An ESPN staff member -- apparently unaware of who he was talking to -- walked up to Phil Hellmuth during game play and reminded him that he hadn't filled out his player questionnaire.
"Who's it for?" quipped Phil.
"ESPN," the nervous intern replied.
"They know who I am," said Phil. "I fill out ten of those a year."
The ESPN guy just stood there with a blank look on his face, seemingly determined to get Phil to fill out the paper.
"You're alright . . . don't worry," Phil assured him.
[user76023]
The board reads and Kristian Ulriksen is staring down at a 10,000 bet from Isaac Haxton which is, in effect, setting him all in. Ulriksen tanks before folding and the TV cameras, which have swarmed around the table like bees around a flower, ask him to show his cards to their little hole-camera (which looks like a mini-vacuum cleaner you'd find in a car).
"But I have no cards," replies the Norwegian stoically. The dealer passes him them back and he lifts them up for the camera to see before mucking them once more. Haxton does the same but as the American goes to muck, Ulriksen pleads, "Show one."
Haxton says, "Pick one," and in a split second the entire table points to the one on the left and Haxton flips the .
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Hachem: Saved by Cowboys
Newly arrived Table Hachem sported the previous WSOP Main Event champion himself in fairly poor chip shape. Down to 5,325, he got it all in preflop with against Marco Johnson's . No Aces, or (enough) diamonds, and he's over 10,000 once again.
[user38449]
Ben 'Milkybarkid' Grundy has just eliminated Jason Potter from the main event.
On a flop showing , Grundy fired a 3,000 bet after which Potter moved all in over the top for a total of 10,550. Grundy made the call and tabled , well in front of Potter's .
"No nine of diamonds," Grundy instructed the dealer as they awaited the turn.
"At least give me the sweat," Potter pleaded.
The popped off on the turn.
"That's a really bad card," admitted Potter, who was left with just three outs on the river.
A safe was the last card to fall off the deck, and with that, Potter wished everyone luck before exiting the tournament area.
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board. Craig Marquis let out one of those deep sighs that have a meaning of, "I know I'm behind but I'm going to have to call anyway." 
while Marquis could show only 
. The 
was an effective brick on the river and Hoy doubled up.
and Kristian Ulriksen is staring down at a 10,000 bet from Isaac Haxton which is, in effect, setting him all in. Ulriksen tanks before folding and the TV cameras, which have swarmed around the table like bees around a flower, ask him to show his cards to their little hole-camera (which looks like a mini-vacuum cleaner you'd find in a car). 
.
against Marco Johnson's 
, well in front of Potter's 
.
popped off on the turn.
was the last card to fall off the deck, and with that, Potter wished everyone luck before exiting the tournament area.
