$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight B Entries:  587

This is an unusual tale of a man who may or may not be a Russian actor, but he is certainly entertaining a couple of players at his table.

First, Jackson Martin is in seat 2, and gets it all in from the cutoff for 10,300 with , and he needs his aces to hold to stay alive against the big blind’s .

The board came — the big blind paired his queen on the flop and turned an open-ended straight draw, but the aces held up for Martin to win the pot and double up in chips.

Jackson Martin  –  21,800  (27 bb)

After the hand, the player in seat 1, Anton Kutsenko, loudly proclaimed himself (in a thick Russian accent) to be Anton Kutsenko, a famous Russian actor. But instead of listing IMDB-style credits (IMDB shows a 2007 film and a 2012 film with Anton Kutsenko), he described it like he was starring in poker hands.

Perhaps in the style of Troy McClure (from “The Simpsons”), he’d say, “Hi! I’m Anton Kutsenko. You might know me from roles such as The Button and The Big Blind.”

Then Kutsenko proceeded to describe a hand between himself and Jackson Martin when he woke up with pocket aces in the small blind. He completed the small blind, Martin raised from the big blind, and Kutsenko called.

But he didn’t just describe the betting, he put out chips from his own stack as if he were re-enacting the hand, then pulled chips from Martin’s stack to indicate his raise. Martin laughed and said, “Dude, you can’t touch my chips!” So Kutsenko told the rest of the tale without the visual aid of actual chips.

Martin was laughing at most of Kutsenko’s story, at one point saying that no part of it is true. So this hand may or may not have happened at all.

Kutsenko claims to have limp-called with his aces from the small blind, and then described himself check-calling on all three streets of a board that came . He then said Martin had ace-king, and that’s how Kutsenko wound up with 39,000 in chips and Martin was down to the 10,300 he had in the (real) poker hand written at the top of this post.

So if you ever have a chance to see a film starring Anton Kutsenko, give it a glance, because this guy is a trip.

Anton Kutsenko  –  39,000  (49 bb)

Flight B is up to 602 entries (1,182 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $620,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.