THACKERVILLE, Okla.–North Texas player Abteen Vaziri just said now that I know his name I can delete it. He is out. He wins $2,500 for finishing in 55th place. Much of Abteen\’s recent success has come from study of Joe Navarro\’s book on tells. But he misread a pulsing neck vain for weakness when in reality it was pocket queens.
Sorry dude.
Looks like it\’s up to Josh, Troy, and/or TJ to do the Dallas gamers (whose names Pokerati knows) proud.
UPDATE: Troy \”Darling\” Phillips is out. He got pocket jacks on the button and raised. The ever-aggressive big blind pushed all-in … Troy called … and would learn the sad news that he was up against aces. Ouch!
50th place. $3,000. Still, nice job by the Batfaces favorite sugar daddy curly haired representative. It\’s only a matter of time before he runs out of money makes another final table.
UPDATE: Josh Evans also appears to be out. Turned away for a second and his table was gone … and he couldn\’t be found elsewhere in the field.
Interestingly enough, while Kido Pham and Greg Raymer were brought out here (and presumably bought in) by WinStar … TJ Cloutier simply showed up on his own and plunked down $1,100. Definitely not a charity event for him. And to think, they don\’t even have craps in Oklahoma. Can we say positive EV?
With 45 players left and blinds at 4k/8k+500, Cloutier has about 165,000 chips. Average stack is 111,000.
UPDATE: Just learned that Cloutier was bought into this event by a heretofore unnamed military-ish backer in Dallas … who has 50 percent of the poker hall-of-famer.
