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It’s near 8 PM and they are coming out of the break. Howard was musing to Phil Ivey, who is laying on a couch, sick, “I flop a straight and Allen flops a set. We check the turn and there’s $10,000 bet and called on the river. Patrik flops a set and he gets $150,000 called by second pair.” Brian Townsend apparently said during the break he had Q-J. He has bought in for another $200,000.
Here are the chip counts from the break:
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Patrik Antonius and Brian Townsend just played a huge hand and Brian, as has often been the case in this Game, ended up on the losing end.
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At 6:45 PM, Erick Lindgren gets in the game and even if he isn’t in a hand (though he frequently is), the Fun Quotient goes up substantially. He could pick on anyone – and does – but he’s one of the few people on Earth who will give it to Phil Ivey relentlessly and without reserve.
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After hours and hours of mostly contained action, they started opening it up at 6 PM. Patrik Antonius and Allen Cunningham were in a pot where the flop was T-9-8, rainbow. There was $12,000 in the pot. Patrik bet $10,500 and Allen called. They both checked after a five on the turn. After a deuce on the river, Patrik bet $22,000. Allen called, saying “Those are two terrible cards.”
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While we were out on break, the internet access went out and it just came back on (at about 5:40 PM). They’ve been at it for 20 minutes, plus there was some interesting action just before the break. Here is the recap:
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Roland de Wolfe has arrived at about 3:40 PM and asked me for a summary of the action so far. I was tempted to read him every word of the 19 blogs I have posted since Tuesday afternoon but resisted. Jeremiah Smith conducted a short interview with him, pointing out that at least a couple players appear excited that he has shown up. To listen to that interview, click HERE (turn your speakers up because they were on the set so they had to whisper).
And Tony G and Brian Townsend continue to mix it up (but not in any pots).
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Is “dick-out” a known expression or am I assuming too much? I think I referred yesterday to a “dick-out hand.” By that, I meant a hand where the players are ALL aggressive, like they want to whip their dicks out to measure whose is biggest. But when I refer to a dick-out situation, I’m really not trying to be crude or even exclude or offend women. Annette Obrestad, the new World Series of Poker European Champion, led the tournament in dick-out hands, where she would not be denied her right to aggressiveness, even if she had to put all her chips in before the flop with 3-3 or Q-J.
The table chatter, which I think will be a preface for the action, is becoming dick-out-centric. (One of the participants, Tony G, has just noted as I’m writing this, “We’re talking the talk but we’re not playing many pots.”
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It’s 3 PM and, after a couple hours of generally conservative action, the betting is starting to accelerate. As I mentioned yesterday, the big pots in this game are generally not dick-out raising wars before the flop. For the shorter stacks, that can happen, but the biggest pots generally have started slowly and built to a point where a raise or reraise after THE TURN gets someone with a deeper stack all-in.
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The action has been slow thus far. (It’s 1:45 PM, one hour in on Day 2.) Chris Ferguson has been reraised out of a couple of pots, the latest being one where he was re-reraised out preflop by Allen Cunningham moving all-in. It was the first all-in of the day and Allen took it when Ferguson folded.
The pace of play has allowed me an opportunity to share a great exchange that took place off camera yesterday afternoon.
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Cards in the air at 12:34 PM local time. My chip counts from the previous post were correct. None of the short stacks have rebought (yet). Like yesterday, in the early hands, it looks like a lot of guys are going to play a lot of hands.
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