Feature Table, Queen’s Kings Overthrown
by Court on 09.28.08, 8:11 pm
With the lights, cameras and TV crews swarming around it is somewhere between dificult and impossible to get into the area right around the feature table to see what is going on. The multi-leveled Empire Casino does provide some views of the table, though none from a vantage point where cards or bet amounts could be seen with any hope of accuracy.
The distant view is good enough to see who is there though, and more importantly who is not. There will be no amazing story of back to back World Series of Poker Europe Main Event victory for Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad (right) this year. From this point on anything having to do with her and this tournament will be a promotional media based affair. We have been told from those around the feature table that Annette’s pocket kings fell to the A-Q of Marco Traniello, presumably all in preflop.
Shane “Shaniac” Schleger has was also eliminated from the feature table earlier today.
Other players missing in action include Jason “JCarver” Somerville who did not survive long into level 5 with his severe short stack, and Yevginiy “Atimos” Timoshenko (left) - one of my pre-tournament pick to go deep.
Adam Junglen is back on the right track though, recently picking up chips with a raise after a flop of 8
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2. The other player in the pot bet out on the flop for 2,150 into the 3,400 chip pot. Junglen raised to 6,600 and his opponent folded the AK face up saying “I wanted you to raise me preflop.”
Day 1A started with 159 players and finished with 86 remaining. Todays numbers were a bit larger with 203 players starting the day. At last check the field was down to 14 tables and no more than 126 remaining players. That number will drop as the night continues and around 185 players are expected to make it to day 2 play out of the 362 total entrants. The number of entrants may be off by 1 or 2 as the official registration list won’t be out till later tonight.
