From One Rail to Another
by Jessica on 06.30.09, 2:04 am
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured left) appeared to have a rough Level Eight. When we last saw him he had moved all-in for his last 4,550 chips at the 300/600 ante 75 level. Another player at the table called with A
K
which had Mercier’s K
7 in a pinch. The 984JJ
board failed to improve Jason’s hand and he was eliminated. He hasn’t left the building just yet though. Instead, he is joining the growing contingent of online players including Allen “albari” Bari, a recently eliminated Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks and Eric “p3achy keen” Liu railing Steve “19FMzadester” Levy at the final table of the other $1.5K NLHE event.
Joe “Dyzalot” Morneau was on a rollercoaster ride during Level 8. He found himself in an odd situation just minutes after being moved into the Amazon Room midway through the level. A player at his table raised to 1.6K from middle position and another player called from the hijack. Morneau reraised to 5.5K from the button. The original raiser called, leaving 7.4K behind, and the other player also called, leaving 9K behind.
On the T96 flop, the first player moved all in and the hijack quickly pushed the rest of his chips in behind. A perplexed Morneau stood up from his seat and spent a minute thinking over his decion before tossing his hand into the muck. The first player showed KJ while the other had QQ. The pair of queens held up and a relieved Morneau sat back down in his seat. He later told us he folded pocket fours.
Then after losing a race with pocket tens to A-K, Morneau won two pots on the last two hands of the level. He first took about 10K from Matt “mlagoo” LaGarde when he made two pair on the river (aces and eights) and LaGarde called him down. Then while stacking those chips, Morneau called a shortstack’s preflop shove with pocket sixes and rivered a straight to chip up to 63K.
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman was able to pick off a short stack when the player moved all-in from early position for his final 2,075. Kyle raised to 4.45K total and everyone else folded. Zartman’s KQ was not looking to make a flush as his opponent held A6. The T94 flop didn’t improve Kyle’s situation, but he managed to spike the Q on the turn, which held to bust the player and win him the pot, He now has 21K.
Lauren “locoenlacabeza” Kling was also able to spike a lucky queen in order to stay alive in this event. She told us that she opened for a raise, another player reraised and she moved all-in with pocket queens. The other player insisted he warned her not to do so because he would call her, but Lauren simply explained she didn’t know what else to do with pocket queens. The other player did in fact call her with his pocket aces, but Lauren managed to hit a two-outer on the river to bump her stack up to 21.5K.
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 50K
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 35K
Alex “Kadabra” Keating - 32K
Jack “doctor_fun” Powell - 30K
Carder “PlusToTheEV” English - 29K
Ryan “ryanghall” Hall (pictured right)- 26K
Hunter “The_Hunt_D” Frey - 25K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 25K
Ben “shankingyou” Palmer - 24K
Lauren “locoenlacabeza” Kling - 21K
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 21K
Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark - 12.5K
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 9K
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 8.5K
WSOP 2009 Event #52: $3K Triple Chance NLHE
Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail and Peter “Nordberg” Feldman were among those making exits during the past level of the $3K Triple Chance NLHE. A short-stacked Cahail was in the big blind with just over 20K at 2K/4K blinds and was forced to get his remaining chips in preflop against Jason “TheMasterJ33″ DeWitt before even looking at his cards. After DeWitt revealed his A4 Cahail slowly flipped his over one-by-one:
J… 9
Cahail was racing for his tournament life but the AT3Q4 board sent him to the rail. Jon “apestyles” VanFleet walked over and offered his sympathies to Cahail, who earned $9,145 for his two days of work. With the average stack at 168K, here’s a look at the P5ers remaining:
Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet - 300K
Jason “TheMasterJ33″ DeWitt - 275K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 220K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 207K
Michael “Bonzo9876″ Katz - 152K
Isaac “westemenloAA” Baron - 107K
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 63K
WSOP 2009 Event #51: $1.5K NLHE
As we mentioned, Steve Levy is still at the 6-handed final table of the other $1.5K NLHE event and he recently got a little lucky to double up and stay alive. He got it all-in against Georgios Kapalas holding K-Q to Kapalas’ A-K. The A-Q-4 flop did not bode well for Levy, but the Q on the turn and 10 on the river meant the pot was his and he doubled up to nearly two million chips–good enough for third in the chip counts. Owen “ocrowe” Crowe is sitting in second place with 2.9 million.
