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#542 – London 2008 #49 – Million Dollar Cash Game – Lineup Changes
We’re about 1 3/4 hours into our dinner break, just before 7 PM. There was this great Indian restaurant right across from the studio. I’m just not sure they were ready for a party of 24, especially with producers trying to get the production restarted and poker players wanting … to play Chinese Poker.
The excellent meal concluded, it’s now 6:50 PM and they are getting ready to restart. Gus Hansen has returned with the $135,000 he took off the table yesterday, sitting in Seat 8, Chris Ferguson’s old seat. Chris leaves down about $100,000, all thanks to Ivey’s set of threes.
John Juanda has taken Seat 2, Andy Bloch’s former seat. I think Andy also lost about $100k, the result of one bad situation with Patrik Antonius. Andy raised with A-Q and another player flat-called. Patrik Antonius reraised in what looked like a squeeze play. But it wasn’t a squeeze play. He had A-K and he called Bloch’s all-in re-reraise. When the dealer turned over the flop, there was a queen in the door … but the other two cards were a ten and a jack, making Patrik a straight.
Juanda has bought in for $200,000.
I don’t have current numbers but this is roughly what the players are taking into the final session of play tonight:
Seat 1 – Patrik Antonius – $500k
Seat 2 – John Juanda – $200k
Seat 3 – Mike Matusow – $180k
Seat 4 – David Benyamine – $720k
Seat 5 – Tom Dwan – $425k
Seat 6 – Phil Hellmuth – $65k
Seat 7 – Phil Ivey – $1.1M
Seat 8 – Gus Hansen – $135k.
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