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Playing under our little satanic-spade banner … David Pflaster. Some of you may recall … he got his start playing at the Lodge and before you knew it was getting aces tattooed on his forearms, dealing in Dallas, and about a year ago moved to Las Vegas to make it as a low-stakes pro.

He actually seems to be doing it — says he\’s just slightly better than breaking even in cash games while hitting some \”big\” scores in tourneys. More than $20k in the past few months in Caesar\’s freerolls, another $10k win online … today he\’s playing in the $2,000 NLH event … and with about half the field eliminated just before dinner break, he\’s a pretty-big stack with about 18,000 chips (more than double the avg.). Seen here after just having taken out a player who moved all-in on his big blind in a hand where he woke up with pocket kings.

NOTE TO SELF: Satanic Spade … good name for a new death metal band!

UPDATE: According to Pflaster: \”Dude, my Aces ran into Jacks.\” His opponent was apparently a relative big-stack … so he\’s now down to 3600, with blinds at 300/600 … and Pflaster in the big blind on the next hand after dinner break.

Yikes. But at the same time, on the previous break he and I talked about this exact situation, and how he\’s learned his way out of it. We\’ll see, no?