Yamada's Lovin' Life
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Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
Another walkabout around the black section of the Amazon revealed that Eddy Sabat, Erik Cajelais and Melanie Weisner have now taken their seats.
Derek Yamada is all by himself over on Table #33. The former college student and safety equipment salesman from Sacramento, CA doubled his starting stack to 9,000 after eliminating his only original tablemate.
Yamada told us he held 
on a 
board and all the money went in on the river. "I guess he couldn't fold," he said before new players came in from a broken table.
We've also just spotted Kristy Gazes making her late arrival, as well as Maria Ho, fresh from her runner-up finish in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event last night.