Chips Collected from Kool
Bruno Lopes -- a.k.a. "Kool Shen," the French rap star -- is in the house. He fronts the popular NTM -- which, incidentally, stands for something not so friendly. The first couple of levels were friendly to Lopes, however, as he managed to build his stack up to around the 40,000-chip mark.
Just now we came upon a big hand involving Lopes. We caught the action during the key decision point, where it appeared Lopes' neighbor, sitting to his right, had made a preflop raise, Lopes had reraised to 1,525, then the table folded back around to Lopes' opponent who had pushed all in for 8,900 total. Lopes went deep into the tank, then emerged to make the call, showing 
. His opponent tabled 
.
The flop came 
, and Kool faintly winced as he noted his opponent had taken the lead. The turn was the 
and the river the 
, and Lopes had lost a chunk to his neighbor. He still has about 27,000 at the moment.