There are a few players that always draw the cameras.  At a poker tournament when you see an exceptionally large crowd around a table you can pretty much count on either Phil Hellmuth or Daniel Negreanu being at the table.  While Phil almost demands the attention, Daniel gets his spotlight in a different manner. 

An always friendly, always talkative Negreanu draws the cameras with his personable attitude.  Recently Daniel made some predictions that proved true in short order.  A player on his left had been aggressive, especially against Daniel.  In an away from the table TV interview Negreanu mentioned he was letting the guy run him over and setting him up to get all his chips when the right situation came up.  Well, it didn’t take long.  Jason “JCarver” Somerville opened from the cutoff and Daniel called from the button.  Our aggressive hero that Daniel had targeted was true to form and put in a raise from the big blind.  Somerville tossed his hand and Negreanu again just called.  On an 8 high board with 2 spades our aggressive friend led out for 4,500 and Daniel again just called.  With the J on the turn it took some chip stacking and arranging,but after a few moments the ultimate in aggression had been reached with an all in move.

Daniel matched about as quickly as possible putting in a large stack of the 5k chips to more than cover the other players 20k all in bet.  Negreanu turned over pocket jacks for top set.  Mr. Aggressive didn’t turn over his hand for a while, saying “I’m drawing dead” and flashing his T-3 offsuit.  He did trip his threes on the river, but it was a wasted effort as Negreanu’s full house took the pot and eliminated the aggressive donator to Daniel’s stack.

A few hands later Daniel flopped a set of sixes, and though he wasn’t able to get all of his opponent’s chips in that hand he was able to pick up enough to close in on the 100k mark and take the chip lead in day 1B play.

At the table beside Negreanu a frustrated Alex Jacob has seen his stack diminish down to around 7k while Adam Junglen (left) has pushed back up to around the 30k mark.  Junglen picked up a nice pot from Jacob with a river bet and then won another good sized pot.  On a board of T93K4 Junglen bet 4k on the river and after a brief moment his opponent in the hand called.  Adam turned over his KT and reached out to grab back the 5k chip he had used to make his last bet.  Realizing his opponent had not yet showed his hand and could possible have a winner Junglen pulled back before grabbing chips from the middle. 

His hand was good though, and seconds later he was raking in and stacking up the chips.  After the hand he was up to around 30k.  Jacob was also involved in a pot, but his resulted in a surrender of a few chips instead of gaining them.  On an A94 board Alex bet 1,300 and the player to his left moved all in for just over 6k.  Jacob had him covered, but not by more than a couple thousand.  After thinking for a couple minutes Alex tossed his hand in, resigned to continuing the fight with his short stack.

Here are some other chip counts from players located in the dungeon area:
Barry Greenstein - 46k
Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza - 40k
Adam Junglen - 30k
Stephen “Stevie444″ Chidwick - 23k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 18k
Alex Jacob - 7k

Missing in action from the dungeon area is Josh “JJProdigy” Fields.  Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (right) has also busted from the tournament in early day 1B play.

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