Traction the commenter wonders:
Isn\’t pat poels part of team pokerati? Show the love and get a chipcount
Fcuk-yeah, he is. (Especially when he\’s got chips!) Not only does PP represent us well, but also Poels has provided a good subplot to the 2009 (Tom) Schneider collapse (and possible main event redemption). He\’s faced a similar struggle this year, though he didn\’t sink quite as deep hole-wise and has booked a few small cashes to yield thusfar better results climbing out of it.
Though his starting chip stack wasn\’t too much bigger than Tom or Randy\’s, Poels — a Day 2b guy — began the day at a table quite different from @TBR\’s and DonkeyBomber\’s:
1. Sykes, Mark 43,800
2. Poels, Pat 139,400
3. Feduniak, Bob 72,700
4. Beddaoui, Younan 25,800
5. Sliwinski, Nicholas 68,400
6. Gurevich, Max 61,700
7. Zeitlin, David 53,400
8. Tomko, Derek 19,000
9. Wilton, Ben 51,300
Honestly, I don\’t think he could ask for anything better than Amazon-O72. Phil Ivey\’s actually in a similar situation, only slightly more dominatingly, next door at O73. We\’ll try to find out what happened, and for more immediate updates (not yet, but later), check in with @pokerati.
UPDATE: Pat has been moved. For now we\’ll just assume/hope he ran over it, and that\’s why it broke. For rapid-fire updates from around the Rio, follow the official action here. And for the best semi-live sense of what\’s really happening on the tables as a whole, here. And of course here.