Poker Player and Actor, Chad Brown, took his seat in today's Senior Championship with the goal of taking home his first gold bracelet. With 37 cashes and 9 final tables at the WSOP, Brown has the experience and drive to go deep in this field.
Earlier this year, Brown sat down with PokerNews for the series Seat Open. Check it out.
Marcel "The Flying Dutchman" Luske is dressed to the nines and ready for battle. He is hoping to outlast more than 4200 players to have his name inscribed on the "Golden Eagle" Trophy that signifies the Senior's Championship.
Luske is probably best known from poker televesion coverage for wearing his sunglasses upside down and signing at the table. Don't let that fool you though, he has the skill and ambition to get the job done.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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3,000 | |
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One of poker's most memorable moments was the hand that ended the 1988 WSOP Main Event, when Johnny Chan flopped the nut straight and played it to perfection to felt Eric Seidel.
The man known as the Orient Express is in the house today, in search of an astounding 11th gold bracelet, and a recent hand had Chan reliving history.
Chan held the 
and with the board reading 
by the turn, he was in the familiar position of playing a pot with nothing less than the nuts.
When a third club arrived on the river, Chan led out for a bet of 900, and an opponent with bad timing and worse luck decided to make his stand against the champ, raising for the rest of his chips. Chan snapped him off with the nuts, and the shell shocked senior could only toss his useless 
into the muck before exiting the Pavilion.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
5,500
5,500
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5,500 |
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After making a preflop raise and receiving one caller, Robert Varkonyi checked in the dark, putting the action on his opponent before seeing the flop.
The dealer spread the 
across the felt, and Varkonyi's opponent happily checked back to take the free card. The 
and 
completed the board on the turn and river respectively, and when the hands were tabled Varkonyi's 
was second best to 
.
By checking dark, Varkonyi allowed his opponent to catch up on the turn, but the former Main Event champion did not appear to be fazed as he conversed with friends on the rail.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
2,250
-750
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-750 |
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With Doyle Brunson electing to forgo tournament play during the 2013 World Series of Poker, things here at the Rio just haven't felt the same, but the legend known as Texas Dolly recently made it clear that he wouldn't be playing in Seniors Championship even if he was in the building.
For the record...I AM NOT PLAYING in the senior event at the WSOP. Why? I'm not old enough.#cashrulesFollow @TexDolly
The seniors have stood to stretch as we enter the first 30-minute break of the day.
Nível: 3
Blinds: 50/100
Ante:
The Pavilion Room is mostly used for cash games, satellites and Deep Stack Tournaments, today, however, there are only a handful of tables not used by The Senior's Championship as we have shattered last year's attendance record. There are currently 4,369 entrants and registration is open for another two hours. Here are some more players we found as we walked through the massive Pavilion Room.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
Every tournament offers an endless stream of memorable quotes, with players celebrating miraculous suckouts, bemoaning their bad fate, and conversing with people they would never encounter away from the table. Susie Isaacs, who won two WSOP gold bracelets in the Women's Seven Card-Stud event (1996 & 1997), recently overheard something you might only hear at the Seniors Championship.
Despite this humorous tweet, Isaacs doesn't seem to be in the mood for smiles at the moment, as her chip stack has been halved to just over 1,500 early on the first day of play.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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1,575
1,575
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1,575 |
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Earlier today we overheard someone saying that since the blinds go up so slowly, they could sit and play all day. Not everyone is taking that approach though, as Jim Blechan nearly tripled up when he and two others were all in on the 
. Blechan held 
for two pair against 
and 
. The
did not help either of his opponents and one was eliminated and the other was left short stacked.
