A Tale of Two Tables

Team Pokerati Day 3 Follows

Cards have gone in the air, and two of our fellas are threatening to go deep. Today is the big day where they\’re both starting in comfortable position but still will have to play to determine if they\’ll be hanging on for dear ITM life, or making the big push for real money with a few hundred others.

Two tables we\’ll be watching a little closer than others, live, on Twitter, and at WSOP.com:

Brasillia 223 — obviously there\’re a couple mistakes on this semi-official list, and we (or WSOP floor staff) will correct accordingly … assuming Tom doesn\’t get it all-in with Dario Tosin right from the git-go and come up short:

1. Rose, John 33,800
2. @DonkeyBomber123,700
3. Tosin, Dario 129,000
4. Mannino, Giuseppe 65,800
5. Patrick, Julie 31,100
6. Seiter, John 35,400
7. Phan, Tim 82,400
7. Chaplin, Joseph DNR
8. Jacobsen, Allen 60,800
9. Boudreau, Kevin 72,200
9. Brown, Chad 27,800

And Brasillia 219 — FYI to floor: they\’ve got a couple empty seats over here if you don\’t want to play BR 223 11-handed:

1. McGowan, Joe 96,800
3. DeGreef, Jeremiah 88,900
4. Fletcher, Todd 116,100
5. O\’Malley, Patrick 41,200
6. Mueller, Greg 287,300
8. Lucha, Sven 160,800
9. @TheBigRandy 117,800

TBR starts the day with an M=33, Tom with M=34. Tom\’s one of two big stacks amidst a bunch of short-ish-but-not-yet-desperate little guys, while TBR\’s table has less of a rich-poor gap in the middle — just one guy close to short, and a 2009 bracelet winner as the biggest threat.