Big Hands and Big Stack for “leet8s”
by Rachel on 06.02.09, 4:53 pm
As we made our first trip through the Miranda Room this morning, where some of the players in the $1.5K NLHE event are starting, we spotted Austin “leet8s” Frenkel play this hand.
Frenkel raised to 175 from the cutoff and the button called. The flop was 8
4
2
and Frenkel bet 275. The button called again and the 6
. This time Frenkel checked, the button bet 850, and Frenkel called. Both players checked down the 5 on the river. Frenkel rolled over AA and his opponent mucked.
Frenkel won another big pot with another big hand a little later. He let us know that he won a 10K pot when his A-K held up against his opponent’s QJ after a Ax-98 flop. He has already increased his starting stack of 3K to 12,750 chips.
Tony “Tonyd7″ Darnell has also done well in the early going and has 9K in front of him.
Adam “Roothlus” Levy, who we found registering for this event at 4:00 this morning, showed up 20 minutes late today. He was eliminated 15 minutes later. Levy got it all in on a flop of 9-8-2 board with a pair of jacks but found himself up against pocket queens. The board bricked and Levy has been sent home.
Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko picked up a small pot early on over in the orange section of the Amazon Room. On a A92 flop, Timoshenko bet 350 and the small blind called.The 8 fell on the turn and both players checked. The river was the 5 and the small blind led out for 700. Timoshenko tanked before making the call. His opponent quickly mucked and Timoshenko added more than 1K to his stack (we missed what he had in the hand, sorry).
Cards are in the air over at the $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘em stimulus event. We will be playing down to a final table of nine, take a dinner break and then play will resume until a champion is crowned. According to Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski, who is playing in the $1,500 NLHE today, Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong has a “110% chance” of taking it down. We’ll see if his radar is on today.
Meanwhile the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha restart has been pushed back to 3:00 PST while day two of the $10K Stud event is starting up at 2 p.m.
