There are plenty of British pros in the field today, all looking to hit form in the run up for the eagerly anticipated World Series of Poker Main Event.
Ludovic Geilich, Joe Laming, Mat Cuthbertson and Steve Watts have five-figure stacks, while Andrew Hulme, Danny Blair and Sebastian Saffari have seen their starting stacks dwindle.
Humberto Brenes has taken advantage of the late registration policy in this event as he attempts to notch up a tenth cash of the series. We spotted Brenes a few minutes with his trademark plastic shark, seated next to Erica Lindgren. But on our last visit to the tournament floor, he was gone.
A few minutes later, Brenes reappeared having bought in again.
Gerald David, affectionately known as "Skullman," has lost a little ground, but is still armed with more than his starting stack.
David raised to 475 from early position and placed his silver skull card protector on his cards and adopted a pose similar to the one Phil Hellmuth is known for.
The button called and placed a yellow rubber duck on his cards to protect them and the battle was set: Skull versus duck.
It was a brief battle because David checked on the flop and then folded to a 600 bet from "Duckman." Quack, quack.
Joe Kuether is up to 9,100 chips after doubling up with a pair of aces versus pocket kings.
The chips were in the middle on the flop, Kuether with and his opponent . A turn and river meant Kuether's hand remained best and he casually added his new chips to his stack.
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Hiren Patel handed over a large percentage of his stack after losing a coinflip to an ace on the river.
Patel's tournament life depended on how his could do against his opponent's and it doing great up to the turn of the turn. Then the completed the board and busted Patel.
"Argh, you got me," Patel said, who has a rebuilding job to do. Otherwise, he will be heading to the cashier shortly to reenter this event, which is exactly what Amanda Musumeci has done on a neighboring table.
Germany's Manig Loeser and his girlfriend, Jamila Von Perger, are both competing for the Little One for One Drop title today and are having contrasting days.
Loeser has lost almost half of his stack while Von Perger added almost 50% to hers.
Rumors that whoever busts first has to wash the dishes for a week are unfounded at this time.
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