Daniel Negreanu has arrived and was involved in the action straight away. Four players, including Vicky Coren Mitchell, had checked it down to the river of a board reading and Negreanu bet 1,600.
“Sixteen hundred says I got it. Right? I didn’t bet the flop, didn’t bet the turn, I have to have something right?” he explained and everyone folded to his reasoning.
At the moment 115 players have entered the tournament. With the registration open till the start of Day 2 and people able to do a single reentry, that number is very likely to increase.
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It all went in before the flop as Talal Shakerchi and his neighbor Ray Tabei both had big hands in a cutoff versus button situation. Shakerchi was the underdog with though, as Tabei tabled .
Unfortunately for Tabei, and fortunately for Shakerchi, the flop came king high with two eights: . The on the turn and on the river were blanks and Shakerchi doubled through Tabei.
We watched Viktor Blom play an orbit of his table to get a glimpse of his early level strategy.
Hand #1 From the cutoff Blom opened for 600 and the 2x raise won the blinds and antes.
Hand #2 Blom open folded from the hijack
Hand #3 Artrem Litvanonv opened and Blom folded.
Hand #4 A Fold from Blom from early position.
Hand #5 Ariel Celestino opened for 750 and Litvanov in the small blind and Blom in the big blind call. They saw a flop of . It was checked to Celestino who bet 1,200. Litvanov check-raised him to 2,775 and Blom and Celestino both folded.
Hand #6 Blom folds his small blind to another open of 750 from Celestino.
Hand #7 Again Celestino opened for 750 and another fold on the button for Blom.
Despite his crazy, even reckless reputation Blom has developed his tournament strategy over the years and while he has confessed to finding these game less stimulating that multi-tabling the nose bleeds he has shown the disciple and patience to make a few recent deep runs.
Celestino though looks determined to get full value per hands played for his buy in.
Mohsin Charania and Adrian Mateos Diaz played a pot earlier on where Diaz won, and just now he won another small pot of the EPT Grand Final 2012 champion.
On an board we saw Diaz check-call 1,300. The WSOP Europe champ check-called another 2,500 on the -turn and both players checked the -river.
Charania tabled but would muck it after Diaz revealed .
The tournament keeps growing. From 122 entries, 116 remain at this time. Two players have already busted and reentered. One of them, Rono Lo, just sat down with a fresh stack of 50,000.
Daniel Negreanu opened for 675 from the cutoff and got one caller, Max Altergott on the button.
They saw a flop of . Negreanu checked and said. “Go ahead and bet. Eleven hundred.”
Altergott bet 900 which Negreanu called. The turn saw another check from Negreanu and a bigger bet, 2,900 from Altergott. Negreanu quickly folded and Altergott slammed his cards on the table in mild frustration indicating he really wanted to see a call.
and Negreanu bet 1,600.
though, as Tabei tabled 
. The 
on the turn and 
on the river were blanks and Shakerchi doubled through Tabei.
. It was checked to Celestino who bet 1,200. Litvanov check-raised him to 2,775 and Blom and Celestino both folded.
-river.
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. Negreanu checked and said. “Go ahead and bet. Eleven hundred.”
saw another check from Negreanu and a bigger bet, 2,900 from Altergott. Negreanu quickly folded and Altergott slammed his cards on the table in mild frustration indicating he really wanted to see a call.