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Dwan; dusted
Tom Dwan clearly didn't come here to sit on his 60,000-ish stack: being on the table right behind me, I can hear every time the dealer announces, "All in," and twice within the first 15 minutes it was because of Dwan raising all in... With that raise being around 50,000, that gave his opponents something to seriously consider, and while the first time that move won him a juicy pot, the second time he encountered resistance.
On a flop of he'd moved in over the top of Scott Montgomery, who faced a further 53,500 to call - the pot had been raised by Montgomery preflop, bet on the flop, but it was still a large bet. He thought for a while, before calling with ...
"Nice call," drawled a laconic Dwan, as he flipped the not-harmless . The turn and river bricked and Dwan, appearing, at least, supremely unconcerned, smiled and walked from his table.
[user4144]
Juanda - such a rascal
With John Juanda (or Johnson, to give him his full title) raising it up to 4,300 from the cut-off, the action found its way to Juha Helppi who made it a total of 15,000 from the big blind. Without too much hesitation, Juanda announced all in for around 45,000 more, thus putting the decision back on the Finn.
Helppi initially looked displeased, and I was sure he was going to fold in prompt fashion, but as the clock ticked, it was clear he had a big hand. "I want to play more hands," he cried. "You probably know what I've got now."
After another couple of minutes, and before I'd resisted the urge to become the first blogger in history to call the clock, Helppi asked, "Do you have ace king?" "Maybe," replied a coy Juanda, now grinning like a Cheshire cat. "How about queens?" After his final request was met with silence, Helppi sighed deeply before adding, "I was so ready to go all in with this hand too when you first raised."
Soon after, Helppi made what appeared to be a very reluctant fold indeed. With all eyes fixated on Juanda, the American went to muck, much to their chagrin, but was stopped in his tracks by the camera crew who asked him to show the hand to the mobile camera. Juanda duly obliged, meaning we'll have to wait until the TV broadcast to find out what he had. In the meantime, astute detective work led me to learn that Helppi passed pocket queens.
[user76023]
Mika Paasonen has eliminated two players from his table, and in their places? Roland de Wolfe and Brian Townsend, with Justin Smith and his mamooth stack also arriving.
"Alright! More entertainment for the room!" shouts Matusow with arrival of de Wolfe.
[user76023]
Chris 'Moorman1' Moorman has knocked out the Swede Mikael Norinder. The latter raised and found the young Brit reraising next to him, Norinder made the call and called bets on the flop, the turn before finally calling all in on the river with . Moorman though flipped for the flopped flush, putting him over 100,000 in chips.
[user4144]
No Gray skies here
Day 2's are normally a hotbed of eliminations, so it's a credit to the superb WSOPE structure that we've seen little in the way of dust-biting in my particular quadrant.
One man who almost made the short journey from table to bar was Jason Gray. The feature table is like purchasing a 'restricted view' ticket for a football match, but I did manage to find a gap from where I could sneak a peek of the action like a salivating peeping tom.
All in preflop, Gray had pocket aces against the of Tim Blake. A raggy eight board was as safe as it gets, and Gray doubled up. It now looks as though both players have around the 40,000 mark.
[user46298]
Despite coming back a short stack and striking if not fear then mild irritation into the heart of tablemate Karl Mahrenholz ("He'll be moving in over the top of me every hand. It's what he does."), Neil Channing has gained a few chips and seems happily in the swing of things. Just now he took on quieter opponent Rob Akery, getting a check from him on the turn with the board standing . Possibly this was just to avoid the continual flow of chat mildly attacking him:
"You've showed down only ace-ten and ace-king. It's almost impossible for me not to put you on the nuts. You probably have quad aces..." The arrived on the river. "Or a straight flush," he continued without pausing for breath, or pausing before mucking when Akery bet the river.
A flash of a card was granted the defeated Channing with a grin, and I take it to have been a as this started him on a different tack: "So sick! How can you bet jacks on the river?"
[user4144]
On a board, Surinder Sunar led for 6,600 and Bruno Fitoussi made the call. Sunar showed which was more than enough to take it down. Like a poker see-saw, one went up, and the other went down, but both stacks have now settled on 45,000.
[user76023]
With David 'Chino' Rheem's late-ish arrival, Roland de Wolfe has found another person to banter with.
De Wolfe (to Rheem): "I'm from the streets man, like you!"
Rheem (non-believing): "You're from the streets?"
Nicolas Zambakides: "What streets would those be?"
De Wolfe: "(pause) Err...Barnet...But there's places in Barnet you don't want to go..."
Ross Boatman: "There's nowhere in Barnet you would want to go."
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Eric Sagstrom is off to a good start early on, having already broken past the 100,000 threshold. In a recent hand, he bet Isaac Haxton off a hand with a check-raise.
Haxton had opened the pot from under-the-gun with a 1,200 preflop raise. Sagstrom made the call and the two went heads-up to the flop, which came . Sagstrom then passed the first action to Haxton who made a continuation bet of 2,200. Sagstrom then kicked it up a notch, making it 6,200 to go, which was too much for Haxton, who folded.
Sagstrom now sits with just over 110,000 in chips.
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he'd moved in over the top of Scott Montgomery, who faced a further 53,500 to call - the pot had been raised by Montgomery preflop, bet on the flop, but it was still a large bet. He thought for a while, before calling with 
...
. The turn and river bricked and Dwan, appearing, at least, supremely unconcerned, smiled and walked from his table.
flop, the 
turn before finally calling all in on the 
river with 
. Moorman though flipped 
for the flopped flush, putting him over 100,000 in chips.
of Tim Blake. A raggy eight board was as safe as it gets, and Gray doubled up. It now looks as though both players have around the 40,000 mark.
. Possibly this was just to avoid the continual flow of chat mildly attacking him:
arrived on the river. "Or a straight flush," he continued without pausing for breath, or pausing before mucking when Akery bet the river. 
as this started him on a different tack: "So sick! How can you bet jacks on the river?" 
board, Surinder Sunar led for 6,600 and Bruno Fitoussi made the call. Sunar showed 
. Sagstrom then passed the first action to Haxton who made a continuation bet of 2,200. Sagstrom then kicked it up a notch, making it 6,200 to go, which was too much for Haxton, who folded.
