Playground Poker

After six 40-minute rounds, we are now up to a total of 68 entries (including 4 re-entries) in the second Day 1 flight of our WPT DeepStacks tournament. At this point there remain 47 players still at their seats, all vying for the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

So far the chip leader remains Trevor Argue, joined only by one other player at the top of the heap, Ian Tang. Don’t forget, there is still plenty of time left to register for this tournament, as registration only closes at 12:30am tonight!

On table 87 we just witnessed an all in by Martin Dyotte. When we arrived at the table, the cards had already been dealt, and the only thing we were waiting for was his oponent’s Noy U’s decision.

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The decision was easy for Noy, and when Martin flipped over his , it was easy to see why. Noy had caught the nut flush on the river , and he doubled up to 65,000.

As the today’s WPT DeepStacks Day 1B continues, players continue to test each others’ mettle, pushing and prodding to see what kind of pressures delivers the best results.

On table 77, the battle has continued in this fashion, with the result being that very often a player will win the hand without having to expose their cards. The most recent example of that occurred just a few minutes ago, as Steven Martin successfully pushed out Ajay Chabra.

With a pot of about 8,000 in play and the board showing , Steven shoved all in for 25,000, winning himself the hand. And just a few hands prior to that at the same table, it was Bradley Coultas that pulled the same trick on Steven and another player, Richard Blom.

In that case, the board showed a , leading to an initial bet of 1,500 by Bradley. It was called by Steven and Richard, and a came down on the turn. The table proceeded to check all the way around and the river came a . All it took was a sizeable bet of 6,000 by Bradley to push Steven and Richard out of the hand.

Once again, no one had an opportunity to see the winner’s cards. Perhaps next hand we will!