A Little Cagey

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Still there is a distinct unwillingness to see any flops -- play has turned extremely cagey.

There was one flop witnessed, when Joe Tehan limped under the gun and it folded right around to Russ Harriman on the big blind, who checked. That flop came down {9-Spades}

and Harriman checked it to Tehan who bet 11,000, but Harriman must have had a hand or sensed some weakness as he raised it up to 36,000, forcing Tehan to pass.

Tehan, incidentally, seems the most antsy of our players today. While mostly the players look slightly bored if attentive, Tehan has been in and out of his seat, pacing, crouched on his knees when he is seated rather than in a more relaxed seating position. He also seems to have been the most aggressive player at the table so far, at least in terms of preflop raising. In addition to the aforementioned failed attempt to take that pot off of Harriman from the UTG position, he took the blinds twice in a row, raising from the cutoff and then the hijack. The first time, Al Barbieri on the big blind passed 2-7 offsuit face up, with a resigned snort.

Nevertheless, Tehan is not the only one raising at the table. David Singer has also taken down the blinds uncontested once (in between lengthy sessions playing with his cell phone away from the table), and at one point, as though he had suddenly woken up and realized where he was, Zachary King also took the blinds with an uncontested late-position raise.

Tags: Joe Tehan