Closing in on the Final Table!
by Brett on 06.07.09, 4:41 pm
Players are falling fast over at the $2.5K six-max limit hold’em event. Three players were eliminated in the first half hour of play, leaving eight men to battle for the bracelet. P5ers Shawn “sbuck21” Buchanan and Brock “t soprano” Parker are still alive.
Buchanan (pictured left) won a big pot early on and now has around to 200K in chips. He raised before the flop and was called by the player on the button with the blinds at 4K/8K and limits of 8K/16K. The flop was 8
4
3
. Buchanan bet and the button called. The turn was the 7. Again Buchanan bet, but this time his opponent raised and Buchanan made the call. The river was the 9
. Buchanan checked and the button made a bet. Buchanan called and waited for his opponent to table K8 before showing this TT for an overpair to the board and the pot.
Parker had close to 300K in chips at last check. There are currently two tables of four players and they will continue playing until a winner is determined at some point this evening.
WSOP 2009 Event #13: $2K NLHE
Two players have been eliminated so far, one at the hands of Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen. A short-stacked player moved all in from under the gun and Stammen called with A-J, having his opponent’s Q-2 in bad shape. Stammen’s hand held up and he is close to 800K in chips, still near the top of the leaderboard.
Brett “threatnasty” Switzer and Garrett “GBecks” Beckman are still going strong as we’ve merged into the final two tables.
WSOP 2009 Event #15: $5K NLHE
Ask any tournament pro and he or she will tell you that winning a bracelet in the $5,000 No Limit hold ‘em event is near the top of their wish list. A field of 655 of the toughest Texas Hold ‘em players in the world went to battle yesterday and 161 survived. Many of them are talented online players that are eyeing a first-place payday of $692,658.
Play will get started at 2:00 pm PT and we’ll be following the event closely until we reach a final table or play is halted at 3:00 am. The average stack is currently at 63,500. Here’s a look at who we’ll be covering today:
Faraz “The Toilet” Jaka - 172,200
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 159,000 (pictured right)
Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier - 123,600
Scott “gunning4you” Seiver - 118,600
Nick “Grip” Grippo - 115,800
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 112,300
Chance “Chance Cards” Kornuth - 113,900
Jimmy “gobbogoby” Fricke - 112,200
Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron - 101,300
Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts - 90,600
David “raptor” Benefield - 85,200
Neil “puggy82″ Stewart - 77,900
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 71,100
David “Davidp18″ Peters - 63,400
Phil “USCPhildo” Collins - 58,100
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 57,600
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 56,800
Steve “SteveyBallGame” Merrifield - 53,800
Alec “traheho” Torelli - 50,600
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 47,200
Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah - 45,800
Eric “p3achy_keen” Liu - 42,900
Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaubaugh - 36,700
Jason “TheMasterJ33″ Dewitt - 35,000
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 33,300
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp - 29,900
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 29,300
Joe “ender555″ Ebanks - 21,800
Dan “Wretchy” Martin - 20,700
Ryan “ryanbluf” Karp - 19,100
Darryll “DFish” Fish - 15,100
WSOP 2009 Event #17: $1K Ladies Event
As we mentioned earlier, our very own PocketFivesLive team member Jessica “doomswitch83″ Welman is playing the $1K ladies event today. She told us that she re-raised with pocket kings in one hand and was called by a woman who had yet to voluntarily put a chip in the pot in their 30 minutes together at the table. The flop came A-Q-10. Welman checked and the other women bet, forcing Jess to reluctantly fold her kings early on. She has about 2K of her starting 3K stack left.
We’ve also spotted P5ers Maria “maridu” Mayrinck and Amanda “blondechick20” Leatherman in the field as well as Erica Schoenberg and Liv Boeree. There are currently 1,062 entrants in the tournament.
