Garza Ousted, Moorman Doubles; 45 Left
by Court on 09.30.08, 12:33 pm
Starting the day side by side, that fates of Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman and Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza (left) have went in opposite directions. A short stacked Garza finally moved in over the top of an opening raise from the cutoff. He was called and his K-J was in a race against pocket nines. No help on the board meant Garza went to the exit somewhere around 50th place, well short of the money.
Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman could have easily joined him missing out on the money. John Juanda opened for 6,200 and Chris raised to 22k. Juanda leaned over to get a look at what Chris had left before putting a stack of 5k chips out to more than cover what Chris had left. After a minute of thought, Moorman said call and his tournament was in jeopardy. Chris was holding the 7
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and found himself in an ok spot against the A9 of Juanda. The board ran out T
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J4 and Moorman was able to double up.
Once the chips were counted Juanda had to send 78,100 over to Moorman (right). In an interesting aside the dealer first told Juanda the amount was 85,100 but an on the ball Juanda asked him to count it again saying he didn’t follow how the dealer got to that amount. Juanda’s counting was correct and he saved 7k by paying attention.
WIth the double up Moorman is now back up to 160k after dropping chips quickly in the first part of the day. Mike Matusow has kept a running commentary going at the table, particularly talking to Juanda. “It’s never good to try to win the tournament on Day 3 Level 2,” Mike informed Juanda. “But you were trying.” Juanda wasn’t too upset with the loss, saying he wasn’t the one that had to sweat it and he was ok with the over 200k he still had left.
Justin “Boosted J” Smith (right) has been a force, jumping to around 350k early in the day and staying in the action once he was moved to the Peter “#1Pen” Neff / Brian “sbrugby” Townsend table. Smith and Townsend have mixed it up a few times so far. In one pot Brian opened for 5,200 and Smith raised to 15,300. Townsend made the call and the dealer rolled out the A62 flop. Brian checked to Smith who bet 17,200. Townsend made the call and the Q brought checked from both players. The river was the 6 and again both players decided to tap the table.
When Brian said “pocket tens” and turned over the TT Smith mucked his hand conceding the pot. In other pots though Smith’s aggression and raises have picked up the chips in the middle and added to his stack.
Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman (right) entered into a raising war with Erik Seidel on a flop of T73. Erik started with a bet of 12k, Scott raised to 31k, and Erik slid out a pile of 5k chips to make it 67k. None of the individual raises were huge, but as they kept going back and forth the pot blossomed to significant levels. With the action back on Fischman he decided to move all in for what looked to be about 150k more. Seidel took a while, but ultimately decided to let this one go. The TV crews caught the action and asked to see Fischman’s hand on their portable hole card viewer, but Scott protested saying that Erik didn’t have to show his hand so he shouldn’t have to either. The TV crew acquiesced, allowing Fischman to muck his hand without showing it to the camera.
Tim “Tmay420″ West was also able to dip into Seidel’s stack. West opened the pot for 6,300 and Erik raised to 22k. Tim then moved in and Erik called with pocket tens. West had kings and they help up to double Tim up to around 90k.
The action has thinned the field to only 45 remaining players, leaving everyone one table shy of being in the money. The top 36 get paid, and the money bubble is the next order of business at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair.
