Big Hand for Bakes in the 40K
by Rich on 05.30.09, 2:30 am
David Baker (pictured left) was involved in a huge hand with Kirill Gerasimov and Evan McNiff. All three players were all in preflop, and Baker found his Q
Q
ahead of Gerasimov’s KJ and McNiff’s A8. The flop was less than friendly though, as Ax27 hit the felt. McNiff’s top pair jumped ahead of Baker, and Gerasimov’s flush draw loomed. Miraculously, the Q
spiked the turn and Baker shook his fists in excitement. A non diamond J blanked on the river, and Bakes scooped a pot worth over 750K to grow his stack to 1.5 million. After the hand, Sorel Mizzi turned to Baker and asked, “How’s life?” Baker chuckled and returned, “Life is nice.”
A few hands later, at a nearby table, Dani “Ansky” Stern and Nam Le were all with the board reading A
KT. Stern was ahead with KT against Le’s AJ. Stern sighed when the J turned, but the table erupted as the dealer quickly revealed the K on the river eliminating Le. Stern stacked his newly earned chips, and walked away from the table to catch his breath. He later informed us he is sitting with 1.2 million in chips.
The field is now playing hand for hand as the money bubble is upon us. Justin Bonomo recently eliminated Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson and is among the chip leaders.
WSOP Event #3: $1.5K Omaha H/L
When Jon “PearlJammer” Turner returned from break, he suffered a tough redraw in the Amazon Room. He is now seated at a table with Freddy Deeb, Chip Jett and Eli Elezra. Turner isn’t the only pro to occupy that seat, he replaced the recently elimanted Daniel Negreanu. Unfortunately, last we checked, Turned was down to around 4K.
Gavin Smith was seated at a nearby table, but his stack was just 400. Smith shipped the four blue chips in the middle after the action was raised, and found himself heads up with just one opponent. Smith tabled A2KQ against his opponent’s A23J. Neither player made a pair, and there was no qualifying low. The dealer announced, “Chop pot.” Smith turned to him and blurted, “No low! Ship it all!” Smith scooped the pot with just AK high but busted soon after.
We ran into Brock “t_soprano” Parker in the hall during the latest break and he told us about the unusual hand that helped catapult his chip stack to 28K. He explained that midway through Level 8 he got involved in a pot that was raised preflop and capped one an A-Q-2 flop with the a flush draw–enough bets to put two of the players involved in the hand all-in. The turn was an off suit 6 and the river was a 9 that brought neither the flush or a qualifying low. Brock flipped up his 2-3-4-6 for bottom two pair and was shocked to learn it was enough to scoop the massive pot. He also told us one of the other players in the hand held K-J for both the straight and flushed draws and was more
than sad to see that he bricked out and lost to deuces and sixes.
Senovio “Dorsal Fin” Ramirez (pictured right) also built his chip stack up during the past level. He is up from 4.8K to 6.6K.. Recent eliminations in the event include Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen and Justin “Boosted_J” Smith.
