Odds and Ends, Level 6 Edition
As previously noted, Phil Hellmuth has arrived. With a 30,000-chip starting stack, he's not really much worse off for having missed the first five levels.
Dennis Phillips seems to be resting his eyes in between hands at one of the outer tables.
Andrew Brown's stack, which had climbed as high as 90,000, is all the way back down to 40,000. He check-raised the turn on a board, then bet 15,000 on the river. His missed a spade flush but made bottom two pair; it was no good against .
"The way you were doing all that talking," said Brown's opponent, "I didn't think you were bluffing."
"Your read was right," Brown replied. But that was little consolation for his diminished stack.