3:19 p.m I just moved to the hallway outside the Media Center where they have a plasma TV set up for us to watch the hand-by-hand webcast. It's an hour delay, but still kind of fun to watch every hand. I won't be out here for the whole time, but will provide updates as I can.
3:23 p.m. The final table of the 1500 NL has started. The first hand was underway, which means Greg Mueller had to raise in early position with K
10. He was min-raised by Billavara to 160k and Greg called. We can only see one of Billavara’s cards, the A
.
“That’s a bad call,” Allen Kessler commented as he walked up to watch the final table. “Calling with K 10 out of position is brutal against that stack.”
On a AQ
10 flop, FBT checked and Billavara moved in for over 300k. FBT tanked for a few minutes before folding. Billavara showed a second black A after Greg mucked.
3:29 p.m. FBT open-raises on the second hand as well. This time he raised to 100k with Q
Q. Naturally, he wins the pot uncontested. His 100k raise looks like a steam-raise, but unfortunately Greg got no action.
3:33 p.m This guy has played the hand so horribly. You raise preflop then check-call with nothing on the flop? This Spencer kid reminds me of Alex Jacob. Same kind of betting style, everything.
3:49 p.m Greg just raised from the cutoff with another monster A4. Pimento made him sweat for a minute in the big blind, but Greg winked at him and he folded. Greg showed the A, then a few minutes later told the table that his kicker wasn’t that bad. I’d hate to see a bad one.
3:51 p.m A few chip counts:
Douglas 2.8m
Pimentel – 1.2m
Mueller – 960k
3:52 p.m. Nothing like a little faith in your friends: Todd and Scott, two more of the endless stream of Vancouver boys just stopped by. “Is Greg still in?”
3:56 p.m. Nothing like a little faith in your friends, redux: “How about in the rebuy? How are Kyle and Shawn?” When I told them Kyle had 16k, their mouths dropped open and they asked at the same time, “You do mean Kyle Wilson, right?”
4:15 p.m. Greg just raised with AK and picked up 300k. I missed some of the action was busy reading a text from Scott Fischman which said "Back up to 9k and calmed down a bit. Lol. On table 3 now." Earlier Scott check-raised for most of his stack on a KJ93 board. His opponent was very close to mucking, but finally moved all in after a clock was called. In the process, he actually turned over KJ which made Scott's fold easy.
