07-10-2009 08:21 UTC-12

Fricke Sitting at Action Central

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"It's been like this every hand," Jimmy Fricke confided when we went back to his table to see how things were developing over there. Fricke was referring to a ridiculous amount of action on a {3-Hearts}

flop. Fricke started things off with a preflop raise to 3,500 that was called by a player in late position and the big blind.

Those two players went to war on the flop, with bets and raises of 7,000, 27,000 total, 52,000 total, all-in 203,000, and call all in 110,000 total. (Fricke had gotten out on the flop without putting in a single chip.) The all-in player showed down {8-Clubs}

; his opponent flopped a set of sevens, {7-Clubs}

. The board ran out {A-Hearts}

to send the all-in player to the rail.

During the hand, Andrew Gaw was broken to Fricke's table. He brought with him 580,000 chips -- a potentially tournament-leading stack.

Tags: Andrew Gaw Jimmy Fricke