Archive for July 9th, 2009

Don’t recognize any names, which is a nice change of pace:

Toriani, Keith 110,200 BR224 1
Lezcano, Ed 23,900 BR224 2
Hai, Le 113,100 BR224 3
Brokos, Andrew 92,200 BR224 4
Phung, Steve 26,500 BR224 5
Bykov, Andrey 27,500 BR224 6
Pages, Fernando 87,100 BR224 7
Fiala, Miroslav 103,500 BR224 8
Stanchewski,Paul 12,200 BR224 9

Keith Toriani- Nothing on him

Ed Lezcano- Nothing

Le Hai- Name is way too similar to common French, Italian, and Chinese words for accurate googling

Steve Phung- A couple shallow cashes in small live events, can’t find anything else on him

Andrey Bykov- He’s from Vladivostok and either is or shares a name with one of Putin’s top economic advisors. If it’s the former, I might have a new “Table of Death” to worry about!

Fernando Pages- According to his World Poker Showdown profile, he lost his job in December and has since been earning a living in local bar leagues and casinos. His interests include “meeting hot girls” and “poker cruises”.

Miroslav Fiala- Nothing in English nor anything in any other language that looked promising

Paul Stanchewski- Final tabled a $1500 Bellagio tournament.

Not much here, but this is one of those “no news is good news” situations. Seems like an unremarkable table, which is very welcome.

I did a “Turning Point” segment today with Cardplayer’s Kristy Arnett about a key hand from Day 2A of the WSOP.

Just to provide a little more detail about the hand: blinds were 300/600/75. I opened to 1500 with KJo, Luca Pagano called, Grant Levy made it 4500 on the button, I made it 11K (not 12K as I say on the video) to go with 33K behind. This isn’t a spot I’d put myself in against a player who can 5-bet bluff but I wasn’t worried about that here. The flop was QTx with a spade draw. I bet 16K, he tanked for what felt like forever and folded.