Early All-In!

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You wouldn't have thought it possible (unless you watched last year's WSOPE ME, perhaps) that a 30k stack could be on the line within the opening ten minutes of a 90-minute-level tourney like this. But Justin Smith just faced potential elimination (or didn't quite get a final 6k worth of value, depending on what he actually had) just a moment ago.

The board read {K-Clubs}

and he was staring fixedly, unswervingly, and without expression at some middle distance spot while his opponent wondered whether or not to call Smith's final bet of 6k into a pot of around 20k. It seems that Smith's stack had already somehow taken a hit, and he was now up in line for the First Elimination Spoon (wooden).

His opponent thought for a good while, looking at his own remaining 15k or so, before finally folding {7-Spades}

face-up... Meanwhile Smith stacked his new stack, and the rail commented on his brown jacket, which looks like it's been decorated with chocolate piped icing.

Tags: Justin Smith