$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship (Event #73)

With around 4,000 in the pot on a board of      , a player in the small blind bet 2,200 and Jeffrey Tugwell raised to 8,500 in the big blind. A third player from early position was in the hand and ended up in the tank for over a minute before letting his hand go.

With action on the player in the small blind, he put in chips to call and quicky mucked his hand after Tugwell turned over the big blind special:   , a seven-deuce that had turned into quads.

Martin Kabrhel seems to be collecting a decent amount of chips at his table as well as staying very chatty to all his opponents.

On a board that read      the dealer started to deal the river card "Keep it black. Small black card" said Kabrhel, including even the dealer into his banter. When the   fell he admonished the dealer for procuring a high card rather than a low one then bet 7,000. His opponent looked at his hand and mucked fairly quickly to send another pot over to the Czech player.

Kabrhel collected the pot while turning his attention to another player at the table who had not been involved in the pot and promised to bust him before the day was over.

Martin Kabrhel

165,000

26,000

Kalidou Sow has been chipping away and he just took another pot down in a hand against William Davila.

Sow got the betting started with a 1,100 open in early position and it folded to Davila on the button who made it 3,500. Sow stuck around and with everyone else folding, they went heads up to the flop.

It came     and Sow checked to Davila, who checked it back. On the   turn, Sow took the betting lead making it 4,100 and it was a quick fold from Davila.

Kalidou Sow	115,000	34,000
William Davila	57,000	57,000

A pot of already just over 40,000 was in the middle on a board that read      . Shawn Daniels was facing a 15,000 river bet from Richard Barabino.

"Are you just going to be slightly better than me all day or am I nitrolling you right now?" asked Daniels. He frowned and studied the board before eventually calling. Barabino turned over the    for the straight and Daniels quickly mucked.

Richard Barabino	95,000	95,000
Shawn Daniels	12,000	12,000

Joshua King has had a fantastic start to the day. After just four hours, he has increased his stack by almost 400 percent. He faces some stiff competition from his table though as he is sat with some experienced players including Martin Mathis, Kevin Gerhart and Troy Quenneville.

Joshua King	230,000	230,000
Martin Mathis	54,500	54,500
Kevin Gerhart	37,000	-11,000
Troy Quenneville	23,000	23,000

Jennifer Shahade raised to 1,000 under the gun and picked up callers from the button and big blind.

All three players checked the     flop and two more checks on the   turn saw the button bet 1,500. The big blind folded but Shahade called to see the   river.

Shahade checked for the third time and the player on the button bet 3,500. Shahade thought for over a minute before calling with the    and it was good as her opponent mucked.

Jennifer Shahade

66,000

6,000

Nick Slusher raised to 1,200 from middle position and was called by the cutoff, as well as Alex Foxen in the big blind.

Foxen checked the     flop over to Slusher, who bet 1,200. The cutoff folded, and Foxen check-raised to 3,200.

"Thirty-two? Call." Slusher said.

Foxen bet 9,600 on the   turn, and Slusher quickly announced "Raise," before tossing in 21,000. Foxen folded.

Alex Foxen	85,200	-3,800
Nick Slusher	75,000	75,000

With around 38,000 in the pot, Perry Friedman bet 50,000 out of the big blind on a board of     . His opponent, Edward Hatzakortzian, was on the button and went into the tank.

After thinking for a few moments, he began thinking out loud: "If you had three-four, why would you go so hard?"

"That's what she said!" replied Friedman.

Hatzakortzian went on, talking about how he had a lot of outs. Friedman asked if he was on a flush draw. Hatzakortzian answered somewhat affirmatively before moving on to saying 50,000 was simply such a large bet, saying he would have called quickly had the bet been half as much. Eventually, he folded.

"What'd you think I had, a lower set?" Friedman asked. "Did you have six-six?" he said as he flashed    for a set of fives. As Friedman collected the pot, there was some table talk about whether Hatzakortzian had thought Friedman had a set, whether Hatzakortzian had one himself, or whether both players did, in fact, have sets. The resolution was not fully reached as the dealer had shuffled the cards and it became time to deal the next hand.

Perry Friedman	140,000	26,000
Edward Hatzakortzian	66,000