Changing Fortunes
Kurtzman: x-x / / x
Maier: x-x / / x
Fortunes are slowly changing here in the back of the Brasilia Room. Eric Kurtzman started the day as the chip leader (really he did -- Sebastien Sabic's starting chip count was mistaken due to poor penmanship) but he's now solidly in the middle of the field. He seemed frustarted after a recent hand of stud against CardRunners Director of Marketing Lana Maier.
We caught the action on sixth street, where Maier check-raised Kurtzman. He tanked a fairly long time for a fixed-limit game -- about thirty seconds -- before tossing in a call. On the river Maier led out and Kurtzman called.
"Do you have a boat?" he asked.
Maier let her cards do the talking. She turned up in the hole for eights full of sevens. That pot pushed Maier's count up to 54,000 (we think - her stacks aren't even) and dropped Kurtzman to about 36,000.