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We heard there were two seats suddenly open at Table 29 and sure enough, they were short-handed by the time we got there. It was pretty obvious who did the heavy lifting.

Brent Roberts sat down to a 40,000 starting stack but he is up to 84,400 before the end of the first level. The WPTDeepStacks champ/WSOP Circuit Main Event winner is off to a good start and we will track down the story during the first break.