Day 1c

Day 1C begins with Begleiter, Dwan, Antonius and Chan highlighted, Scotty Nguyen interviewed, and the yearly empty seat of Phil Hellmuth. The feature table is the defending champion, Joe Cada.

"What do you do for a living?"
"This"
"Yeah, who isn't a professional poker player these days?."

Hand 1 begins in the second level (100-200) Alex Gregory raised 75 off from +1, Cada flats and Ross flats with Ac7c. The flop is 962cc and they check it through to Ross in position who bets 1,100, Gregory lats and Cada makes it 5k to go. Ross calls with his nut flush draw and Gregory folds. The turn is the 6d giving Cada a full house, he bets 6,500 and Ross folds. People try to paint Cada as a luckbox, but people who pay attention see that this hand came over 1 and a half hours into the day, it wan't the first hand.

Hellmuth's table put a $100 bounty on his head.

Johnny Chan doubles up with top set vs middle set. Imagine if Cada had done that?

Scotty Nguyen loses a hand to Matthew Ashton and tries to tell us he's a nice guy. He knows the cameras are watching.

Negreanu has his stack in on the turn on AQJ8. His opponent folds.

We get a rundown of Hellmuth's entrances throughout the years. Racing car driver, Army guy, Julius Ceasar. And here he comes for this year as an MMA fighter.

"This is tame, and even by poker brat standards, so so lame."

Hand 2 and David Katalan maes it 300 with 99 from the HJ. Hellmuth defens his blind with 76off. 10 7 5hh. Hellmuth leads for 400. Katalan flats. The turn is the Qs. Phil bets 400 again and gets flatted. 2300 in the pot and the 9h hits. Katalan bets 1k. Phil folds. Nice 1k chips lost to start with.

Jeff Fennick an Australian boxer in the HOF is shown winning a hand. Eric "Basebaldy" Baldwin is also shown losing a hand. Tony Campagna, a Mr America bodybuilder does an inane celebration followed by a rant. Donk.

Third level now and Hand 3. Cada makes it 800 on +1 with 77, Nils Bardsley makes it 2200 in +2 with KK. AA7s is a decent flop for Cada, and it goes check check. The turn 2s gives Bardsley's Ks a flush draw. Cada bets 3600 and Bardsley flats, the river is the 4s and Cada bets 11k. Bardsley gives it to him.

Hand 4 has us on the turn, Cada has 109 off on a 9923hh board. Miller bets the 53off and Cada flats. the river Ac sees Miller check fold to Cada.

Cada tells us about last year.

Darvin Moon rails Dennis Phillips as he loses a pot with KK to aset of 6s. I like seeing Phillips lose for some reason. Billy Kopp doubles up with 63 on a 33KJ board against QQ. Some old donk stacked off even though the K was there. Antonius beats "Little Man" Mike Sica. Durrr plays a pot while wearing Peter Jetten as a Koala bear button. Durrr has the nuts and wins.

Table 2 has changed, Phil remains. Hand 5 has Hellmuth with 55 on an A65 rainbow board. Rollason bets with AJ and Phil calls. the turn is the 9d and Rollason bets 1500. Hellmuth flats. The river is the 9s. Phil checks and the old guy checks behind. Who would have thought and old guy would check behind. Phil wins the minimum.

Hand 6 pits James Carroll (crol online) with the wild card hand against Hellmuths JJ. The flop is 543ss and Carroll bets when checked to. Phil flats. The turn is the 3c. It goes check check. The river 10s completes the flush. Phil leads 1475 into 4350. As Norman Chad says, "Whats the point in betting now? He's either got nothing or can't call or can beat you and will raise your mixed martial behind!" Carroll raises to 6,200 and Phil calls. Carroll has A6ss. Well played Phil.

Chau Giang is all in with 1010 against Esfandiari's AQ. AQ10 flop and Chau dodges the outs. Back to Durrr and he has the nuts again, beating Todd Butts. We get a Durrr interview, with a random high five from some girl. We then see Peter Jetten, subject of Durrr's button. He loses a hand.

Hand 7 and it's a new level, 150-300 with a 25 ante. cada makes it 800 from the HJ. Miller calls with KJdd from the sb. QQ4dd. Miller checks and Cada bets 1k into 2125. Miller calls. 9d hits the turn giving Miller a flush. It goes check check and look what it is! The old 3h. Miller bets 1600 and Cada makes it 8500. Miller calls. Nice life Cada.

Hand 8 and Cada has Bardsley all-in with QQ vs AJ. Cada wins. Bye Nils.

Out in the field Robert Mizrachi gets Clement Thumy all-in with KK vs QQ on a 982 flop. Mizrachi wins. Negreanu has a Dutchman called Meelis on a 885KJ and bets 2400. He gets raised by Meelis to 5800, and Daniel makes it 11,200. Daniel shows 43off.

Hand 9 and Carroll makes it 800 from the button with AA. Hellmuth defens out of position with A4 off. Good stuff Phil. A95ss is the flop, Carroll bets 1550. Phil calls. The turn is the Jd. Check and Carroll bets 3250. Hellmuth has 10k back and flats. the river is the Kd. Phil checks and Carroll shoves. Hellmuth folds and rants. Excellently played Phil. "Another cooler" claims Phil.

Durrr has J high against Markholt. He bets. You don't mess wiht Lee Markholt. Chau and Antonio get it in on a KQ93. Giau has J10 and Esfandiari KQ. Antonio fils up on the river. He then goes heads up with the Chadster.

Max Pescatori joins Cada's table. HAnd 10 and Cada makes it 800 with 87hh. Chris Brice calls with 66. the flop is 998. Brice checks and Cada bets. the turn is the Js. Brice cheks and so does Cada. J on the river counterfeits both of them. Brice bets 3500 and Cada folds.

Billy Kopp has Alex Gomess all-in with top 2 against a double gutter. He;s up to 114k. Dwan is all-in with J10 on a J1086. His opponent Talebi has QJ and hit a straight on the 9 river. Durrr is out.

Cada has JJ utg and makes it 1100. It's 200-400 now on Hand 11 he gets 3-bet to 4k by some guy on the Hi Jack whi has 77. Cada puts him in for his remaining 3k or so. lol @77. So much dead money. Cada knocks him out. (Gio Ruby, a sculptor. 2show me some of your work, I'll make you an offer.")

Hand 12 and Hellmuth is all-in with JJ against AK and QQ. He loses to the Queens. Bye Phil. Another appalling performance.

That's a wrap! Huck Seed, Jerry Yang and Steve Begleiter wave goodbye.