Eights Full of Tens are Good This Time
by Rich on 07.06.09, 1:51 am
Players are on the tail-end of a 20 minute break here on Day 1C of the 2009 Main Event. Play will resume for one more level before the remaining runners bag and tag.
Andrew “tufat23″ Teng has had trouble accumulating chips today and the player directly to his left has been problematic. Teng, pictured left, lost a handful of sizable pots just in blind battles with him.
Andrew’s luck changed moments ago when he shoved all in on a T
84T
board. A player sitting across from him called, but didn’t want to show after Teng tabled 88
. Of course the player was forced to show and he was drawing dead with A5. The river was the J and Andrew pulled in the pot. Teng is sitting pretty on break, he went from 24K to 74K in just an hour’s time.
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista busted quickly after the previous break. When we walked by his table we saw him all in holding A2 against an opponent’s AK. The board ran K
J85J and Batista darted for the door.
We missed the hand, but walked over to Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul’s table just in time to see his stack being counted down after doubling up. We weren’t quite sure at what point Kevin’s pocket queens got it all-in against David Singer’s A5, but Saul was kind enough to fill us in once the hand was over.
“I raised his blind every hand, so…,” Saul began. “I opened to 800 in late position, David raised to 2.7K, I reraised to 7.8K, and he moved all-in. ” Singer had Saul covered, but had to fork over 30K once the hand was said and done. Saul now has around 64K.
Eric “p3achy_keen” Liu also got it all-in with the best of it, but with much less favorable results. His tablemate Andy “BKiCe” Seth filled us in on how Liu raised preflop and the opponent on his immediate left called. The flop came down K-10-9, Eric bet, and the other player called. The turn was an ace, Eric bet again, his opponent moved all-in and Liu called with A-K for top two pair. The other player showed A-Q and was dead to a jack for straight. He hit the four-outer to take down the pot and send Eric to the rail midway through Level Four.
Andy “BKiCe” Seth - 101K
Hevad Khan - 85K
Jack “doctor_fun” Powell - 78K (at right)
Andrew “tufat23″ Teng - 74K
Ian Johns - 73K
Tom “sbrounder” West - 72K
Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan - 66.7K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 64K
Joe “Dyzalot” Morneau - 62K
Daniel “wildman75″ Buzgon - 62K
Justin Bonomo - 62K
Joseph “jcada99″ Cada - 60K
Matt “SamENole” Smith - 55.5K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 55K
Ben “98 Mute” Yerushalaim - 55K
Adam Junglen - 54.5K
Ryan “rbeckwith” Beckwith - 51K
Justin “looshle” Pechie - 49K
Allen “albari” Bari - 48K
Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby - 47K
Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck - 45K
Jon “FieryJustice” Little - 44.5K
Darus “BejoMas” Suharto - 44K
Blair Rodman - 44K
Justin “BoostedJ” Smith - 43.5K
Brett “gank” Jungblut - 42.4K
James “P0KERPR033″ Campbell - 42K
Ryan Hall - 39.5K
Kenny “kenny rap” Weinstein - 38.5K (at right)
Clayton “clayton27″ Newman - 35K
Alex “42o never loses” Case - 35K
Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade - 34.4K
David “Bakes” Baker - 33.6K
Aaron Been - 33.5K
VaShon “Julian Verse” Watkins - 32K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 31.5K
Darryll “DFish” Fish - 31K
William “beauright” Richardson - 29K
Mark “markysals11″ Salinaro - 24.3K
Becky “smileylsu” Campbell - 22.5K
Casey “sobizzle21” Sobczewski - 21K
Lee “acumen53″ Childs - 20.5K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 19K (at right)
Grayson “spacegravy” Physioc - 17K
Adam “akat11″ Katz - 15K
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 13K
Tom “titantom32′ Braband - 8.5K
Court Harrington - 7.5K
Alex Jacob - 4K
