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Dutch pro Ed de Haas is sipping espresso with his pinkie handle raised on lofty, English phraseology. He’s enjoying the comforts that a stack of 72K affords him as foreign to the purpose hands caper out between the others. He sits sandwiched between two Team PokerStars Pros. Two his left Joe Hachem, and two his direct Chad Brown.

Chad is the newcomer to the team having played a few EPTs and cashing in two already, including last year in this very field where he finished 33rd in the period of the year three grand latest.

Yesterday started well yesterday for the former participant turned poker pro. It continued to get good in a higher degree too, with Chad at one platform sitting with over 60K, before falling back after a pot he had to twitch back from. Today, it's back to delineation A with 32K.

“I have enough chips direct now so I can survive a cool run of cards,” he uttered. “If I get some, at these levels, they have to clutch up now. I had ace-king a brace of times, missed the flops, so had to get rid of them. I got some back with pouch tens. Not a big pot but it keeps me in the 30K rank. Nothing substantial so far.”

Whilst Ed de Haas lives in refresh Joe Hachem is at the voluptuousness level on over 120K, a operate face of entire concentration that was transparent all day yesterday too, consummate with silver mirrored spirit-world and iPod.

He’s hard at work stretching out his superior situation, raising hands in alert succession, alluring pots without so much as a flop card on extend and no one seems in any rush to pace in his way. One hand does take a few steps further.

There’s an under-the-gun lift in seat four of 2,300. It gets back to Joe in the big destitute of vision who wants to see how much the raiser has. Blissful with that he performs a methodical elbow with a stack of dejection worth 20K.
His antagonist twitches, plays with his chips a bit, breathes, looks at Joe then at the stack of dumps, a foreboding spot of strength that will take away from this guy everything if he chooses to call. Does he default to go home now? Heedless...

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