Yesterday we saw how the first final table of this year's WSOP looks like:
Player - Chip Counts
Andy Bloch - 2,115,000
Nenad Medic - 1,200,000
Mike Sexton - 1,130,000
Mike Sowers - 675,000
Amit Makhija - 525,000
Chris Bell - 455,000
Phil Laak - 425,000
Kathy Liebert - 285,000
Patrik Antonius - 230,000
Actually, first of all, did you see how good this final table looks? Antonius, Medic, Bloch, Sexton, Liebert, Bell... damn!
But talking about the day. It seems like Antonius didn't come out to play day 2, he just skip it and appeared at the final table. No i'm jk, it's just that he has the same chip counts as in the end of day 1.
Andy Bloch, finalist of NCB HU chapionship and semi-finalist of the FTP $25k HU Championship, is the current chipleader with over 900k chips ahead of the second place, Nenad Medic.
Nenad Medic is a Full Tilt Pro who has made back to back WPT World Poker Finals final tables, winning one of them. And was in the middle of a curious story of the day 2, that also envolved Chris Bell and Phil Laak, take a look:
Chris Bell was in early position when he decided to raise the blinds to 70,000. Phil Laak insta reraised from cutoff position to 116,00, then Bell called.
A rainbow flop of    landed on the table, bell 'nocnoc' and Laak bet 100,000. Bell thought, thought, thought, and thought a bit more. Then he checked his cards, looked at Laak, checked his cards, looked at Laak, well you get it. After a couple minutes he folds his hands.
Medic gets curious and asks Laak what he had, the answer is "I'll show it for $50". Bell put his hands into his pocket and said "I'll pay it" while Laak turned up nines. Bell didn't get happy and kicked his chair out of frustration. John Kabbaj (final table bubble boy) got curious too and saw Bell's cards to find out he held pocket tens, then told the others. Bell pushed 2 bills of 20 and one of 10 to Laak, when Kabbaj said "Now be nice and give him his money back. Show some class". Laak didn't care much and collected his chips, when Kabbaj once again said "C'mon man, have some class, you don't need $50". Laak answered "$50 is a lot of money", and then pushed back a 10$ bill to Bell, giving him a 20% discount.
As you can see in the beginning of the post, both of them are in the final table and with stacks of similar size. Maybe we will get some nice action between them during the final table.
Soon there will be posts over event #2 and the final table of event #1
Phil Laak
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