Baby Cards, Baby Steps
It is shaping up to be a small but strong field for today's Day 1b. No tables appear bereft of tough players. Table 4 provides but one example, at which we find seated Thomas Bichon, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Davidi Katai. The latter two were just involved in a hand against one another.
Kitai had just opened a hand with a raise to 300 from early position, then a reraise behind forced him to fold. On the next hand, Kitai was raising to 300 again, this time from under the gun, and Grospellier called from the button. The big blind called as well, and the flop brought three baby cards -- 
. It checked to ElkY who bet 625, and only Kitai called. The 
made for an interesting turn card, the sight of which causing both players to check.
The river was the 
. This time Kitai led out with a bet of 700, and Grospellier considered for a moment before raising to 2,700. Kitai shuffled his chips, then pushed his cards away.
Grospellier moves to 33,000, while Kitai sits with 27,500.