"Clean Living" for Larson

Matt O'Halloran

Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Over at table 503, Dan Casetta flagged down PokerNews to tell about Linda Larson, who has been running good in the early stages of today's tournament and has amassed one of the biggest stacks in the room.

"Clean Living is your title," Casetta said, "Let it be a lesson to the degenerates, you give up the drinking and the smoking and you start running good."

Casetta told us that during level 2, he played a hand against Larson. He had aces against Larson's jacks. "I tricked her into getting it all in preflop," he told us. Larson then turned a jack to make a set and bust Larson's aces to double up.

Not too long after, Larson ran queens into kings, and once again made a set when a queen came on the turn. This time, she delivered a knockout blow to her opponent.

This isn't Larson's first run in the Senior's Championship, as she placed 271st for a cash of $3,074 in the 2017 iteration of the tournament, the largest cash of her career. She'll look to match and exceed that level of success this year, and has positioned herself well in the early going to do just that.