WSOP 2008
Bad Moon Rizen
by Jill on 06.25.08, 1:48 am
The 105 remaining players in the $1.5K Pot Limit Omaha 8 tournament just left for a 20-minute break, but beforehand, we saw some major moving and shaking from PocketFivers. At one table sat Dan “Stainley88″ Adams and Matt “plattsburg” Vengrin side-by-side. Dan guarded a very respectable 29K stack, while Matt was running on fumes with 7K.
A few tables over, Eric “Rizen” Lynch (pictured at right) and Shannon Shorr sat across the table from each other. When PocketFives caught up to the action, Eric was all in under the gun with 8K on a A
5
3
flop. One player called him down and the turn and river came 23
. Eric flipped over AQAK for the nut boat - aces full of threes. His opponent couldn’t catch up and Eric managed to more than double his stack to more than 16K.
The very next hand, Shannon Shorr raised to 2,200 from middle position. Eric, in the big blind, jibed him: “You don’t even allow me to protect my blinds!” Taking down the pot uncontested, Shannon added a few more chips to his towering 45K stack.
From the small blind on the next hand, however, Eric raised to 4K preflop and was called by the player on the button. The flop came TAK and Eric bet the pot. His opponent called and the 6 came on the turn. After checking down, a queen came on the river and his opponent celebrated — though Eric held AAJ8 and dominated his opponent prior to the river, his opponent also held the jack and their shared Broadway straight chopped the pot. Despite the disappointment, Eric seemed quite happy to have doubled up going into the break.
Meanwhile, Chris “SKOAL” Falconer reported to PocketFives that he had previously been quartered down on a few hands to a low chip count of 3,800 in the last level. However, after two very profitable hands later from a player he’d nicknamed “The Pampered Chef,” he was up to 15.5K at the break.