WSOP 2008
Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Stack
by Crystal on 06.12.08, 2:48 am
The blinds are steadily rising in Event #21, the $5k NLHE, and a couple of short stacks are sitting a little prettier now. Anna “VietCutie” Wroblewski (pictured at left) got all her chips in on a flop of K
5
3
and found that her AK
was ahead of her opponent’s KJ. The T on the turn and Q on the river secured Anna’s double up to around 25k. She continued to aggressively build her stack over the course of the last level.
A few tables over, Jason Gray got all his chips in preflop with the AK and was ahead to his opponent’s AQ. Jason’s brother Craig recently busted out of the $3k HORSE event and was there to rail him as they saw the board come T8699, allowing Jason to double his stack to 23k.
Seated with Howard Lederer to his left, Adam “Roothlus” Levy held the attention of his $5K table by recounting Family Guy jokes as Tim “tmay420″ West struggled to take down small pots with his dwindling stack. Meanwhile, West had two friends bust out of the tournament with their equally short stacks, dropping by the table to hear worlds of consolation. These were recent chip stacks at last count:
Anna “VietCutie” Wroblewski - 77K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 35K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 30K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 27K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 26K
Alex Jacobs - 26K
Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth - 22K
Tim “tmay420″ West - 13K
Although Craig “MrCasino” Gray was already out of the $3k HORSE Event #22, Stu “The Donator” Paterson was still in and playing aggressively during the O8 rotation. We caught up with the action on a flop of K75 where Stu led the betting and got two callers. When the A came on the turn, the action went the same way once again. Stu bet, the other two called, and then when the J came on the river, the other two once again called Stu’s bet. Stu flipped over the T642 for the 2nd nut low with a busted straight draw, another player flipped up the K543 for a flopped two pair, but the 3rd player held the AQJ9 for a better two pair which ended up splitting the pot with Stu’s low.
During the Limit Hold’em rotation on a table HORSE nearby, Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul (pictured at right) raised preflop and was called by the big blind. The flop came J88 and the big blind checked to Saul who bet only to have the big blind raise. Saul made the call and they saw the 3 come on the turn. The big blind bet out and Saul quickly raised which prompted the big blind to fold and Saul scooped the pot.
In Event #20, the $2K Limit Hold’em tournament is down to 31 players of the original 480. Recently eliminated in 44th, Brett “Gank” Jungblut takes home $2,368 and the satisfaction of knowing he got it in good. His K-Q was obviously no good to Fu Wong’s 6-2 when a six flopped out to dash his chances of winning the bracelet.