Bella Vita for Belabacsi
by Jessica on 06.23.09, 11:08 pm
Since we last checked in with you regarding the $5K NLHE Shootout, the momentum swung back in the direction of Peter “Belabacsi” Traply (pictured left). He managed to regain the chip lead over Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger and pulled to a nearly 3:1 chip advantage over his opponent and was able to put the match away on the final hand of play, which went a little like this: Lichtenberger was down to his last 1.7 million chips with the blinds at 25K/50K. He was content to get the remainder of his chips in holding A
J
, but soon discovered he was in trouble up against Traply’s A
K. The board ran out A
53QQ and the king kicker was enough to give Traply the pot and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Congratulations to peter and Andrew for an impressive P5s 1-2 punch in such a difficult and reputable event.
WSOP 2009 Event #42: $2.5K Mixed Game
The final eight players have returned from a brief dinner break to commence play at the official final table. The one player who won’t be joining them is Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke who was eliminated during the Razz round when his A-5-6-7 couldn’t improve as he went K-J-5 to make a jack low against Jerrod Ankenman’s 8-4-3-4-J-A-7 for a rivered eight low. We aren’t sure of Fricke’s status in the other event he played today, the $10K PLHE, but we’ll be sure to investigate and get back to you.
Jon “Pearljammer” Turner is currently second in chips with 590K, while Eric “jakz101″ Crain and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki are in the middle of the pack with 355K and 109K respectively. Ankenman is currently the monster chip leader with 1.2 million.
WSOP 2009 Event #45: $10K PLHE Championship
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin (pictured at right) made a rush toward the leaders just before the dinner break of the $10K Pot Limit Hold ‘em. Baldwin got involved in a three-way all in with the board reading 9539 and the recent bracelet winner revealed 93. Amnon Filippi and the other player were drawing dead before the Q hit the river and Baldwin increased his stack to 91K. “Must be nice to run so good,” a played at his table commented as Baldwin smirked while he raked in the pot.
Baldwin’s tablemate, Haffa “hafizzle” Khan had what he called a live “misclick” that cost him a decent chunk of his stack. With the blinds at 400/800 Nick Schulman raised to 2.4K on the button and Khan reraised the pot, leaving around 12K behind. Schulman moved all-in and Haffa flipped up what looked like A-9 without touching his chips or announcing his action. Everyone at the table appeared to hesitate and the dealer reached for Khan’s card to push them into the muck.
“Did you call or fold?,” asked Amnon Filippi. The floor was called and it was ruled that since Khan did not announce any action it was considered a fold. Haffa took full blame for his mistake, telling those at his table that he had a momentary lapse of concentration that just cost him 7K.
Another P5er who took a hit to his stack before dinner break was Clark “snake8484″ Hamagami. He and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail got in a preflop raising war that resulted in all the chips going in the middle with Blake holding AQ to Clark’s JJ. Cahail flopped top pair on the Q95 board and it held as the turn and river ran out 42. Cahail doubled up to 47K while Hamagami dropped to 20K.
We grabbed just about everybody’s chips count at the end of Level 6. There are 161 players remaining and the average stack is exactly 51,242. Here are the P5ers still alive:
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkuar - 94.5K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 93.1K
Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier - 92.5K
Darryll “DFish” Fish - 86K (pictured at right)
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 85K
Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery - 80K
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp - 76.2K
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 73.5K
JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado - 70K
Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen - 70K
Christian “charder30″ Harder - 68K
Chris “Genius28″ Lee - 66.9K
Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier - 63.8K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 53.1K
Davidi “legrouzin” Kitai - 53K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 51K
Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail - 47K
Adam “A_Junglen” Junglen - 43K
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 43K
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 43K
Justin “fluffdog” Filtz - 41.3K
Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant - 36.5K
David “Bakes” Baker - 34.5K
Alex Jacob - 30.5K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 26K
Steven “PiKappRaider” Burkholder - 24.3K
Joe Sebok - 24K
Pat “TorontoToro” Pezzin - 22K
Clark “snake8484″ Hamagami - 20K (right)
Ravi “govshark2″ Raghaven - 18.1K
Adam “csimmsux” Geyer - 18K
Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron - 17.7K
Isaac Haxton - 17K
Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko - 13.6K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 13K
Alex “Kadabra” Keating - 12.5K
Haffa “hafizzle” Khan - 11.4K
