Chainsaw Versus Nitzilla
by Jessica on 06.22.09, 6:30 am
As we were wandering the room with play winding down in the $2.5K Mixed Game event, a voice echoed through the room as it screamed out, “Yes!!!” victoriously. We turned around to see none other than Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (pictured left) jumping up and down at his table, pumping his fists in the air. Obviously, we went over to see what the commotion was all about, but we figured a short-stacked Aguiar got a much-needed end of day double up.
We caught a Stud H/L hand earlier in the level where it appeared as if Jon was ready to get it all-in with a seven up and he completed to 600, leaving just 500 or so chips behind. Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler called with a seven up as well and they went heads-up to 4th street. Jon hit a 2, while Kessler was dealt a jack.
“Allen bricked!,” Jon exclaimed as Allen checked. Aguiar quickly threw the remainder of his chips in and Kessler reluctantly mucked for one additional bet.
Turns out this wasn’t the end of the Aguiar v. Allen confrontation. The loud jubilation that merited Aguiar a warning from tournament staff for excessive celebration came in the following hand from the NLHE round. Justin Young raised and Aguiar moved all-in for his last 6K or so. Kessler then reraised all-in from the blinds and Young folded.
“Have kings,” Jon said. Kessler did. Jon gleefully flipped up his A
3
and, according to Aguiar, Kessler responded with a disgusted, “Oh God no.” The kings looked good on the 99
2 flop, but Allen could sense the bad beat coming when the 3 fell on the turn. The river came 3, giving Jon trips and increasing his chip stack to 16.5K. Kessler was obviously disgusted and, since Jess was in the vicinty shortly before and shortly after the hand transpired, we have a feeling Allen might be talking to the WSOP staff about getting her credential revoked.
“I could go without cashing the rest of the Series and still be happy,” Aguiar explained. He then got up to take a lap around the room and share his achievement.
As of posting time, Allen has not posted anything on Twitter about the incident, so this one might have hurt worse than usual. Thankfully for Kessler, he doubled up before the day was through and will be returning tomorrow with all of these fine folks:
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 59.3K
Thayer Rasmussen - 48.4K
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 46.2K
Jon “PearlJammer” Turner - 41.3K
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 41.3K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 39.5K
Rami “arbianight” Boukai - 36.1K (pictured right)
Justin Bonomo - 31.3K
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 20.6K
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 20.3K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 19.1K
Sasha “bikocruz” Rosewood - 18K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 14.6K
Kevin “kice32″ Iacafano - 13K
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks - 11.2K
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 10.9K
Jason “JPOSU” Potter - 8.5K
Brock “t_soprano” Parker - 6.5K
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 4.3K
WSOP 2009 Event #40: $10K PLO Championship
With 25 players remaining play has stopped for the night in the $10K PLO Championship event. They will return at 1PM tomorrow to play down to a winner. Here are the end of day chip counts we grabbed of the P5ers remaining in the field:
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz - 1.22 million
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 586K
Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein - 467K
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 389K
WSOP 2009 Event #39: $1.5K NLHE
Kevin “ImaLucSac” MacPhee was eliminated on the final hand of the night in the $1.5K NLHE event. MacPhee and an opponent got it all in preflop with Kevin’s A
Q trailing AK, and when the board ran out J-10-10-Q-x his opponent made a straight and sent MacPhee home in 28th place for $15,268. He was knocked less than a minute before the 27th-place finisher, who earned nearly $4,000 more than MacPhee because of the pay bump.
The 26 remaining players will return at 2:00 p.m. Vegas time on Monday and play down to a winner. We’re expecting a very long day of poker. The only P5ers still alive are Shawn “sprstoner” Glines (510K), Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania (471K) and Alex Jacob (somwehere around 350K).
