From One Champion to Another
After we came back from the break, Johnny Chan had just taken his seat back at the main feature table when an opponent, Jeff Fenech, had a question for him.
Like Chan, Fenech is a world champion himself -- a boxing champion. The Australian was a three-time bantamweight champion, in fact, back in the 1980s.
Fenech had purchased a poker strategy book during the break -- not Chan's own book, Million Dollar Hold'em, incidentally -- and held it up asking Chan whether or not it would help him. We couldn't hear Chan's response, but the two were laughing as the cards were dealt and Fenech quickly put the book away.
Chan won the first pot coming back from the break, and has moved back up over 600,000 now. Fenech, meanwhile, is still punching with his current stack of 135,000.