WSOP 2008
Greenstein Wins Third Bracelet
by Jill on 06.16.08, 4:29 am
In Event #30, the $10K Limit Hold’em Championship, Barry Greenstein (pictured at left) recently returned to his stack after sitting out for a long time. Amazingly enough, 11K of his stack remained at the table, despite blinding away for hours. He shouldn’t be too disappointed, however, since while his stack was thinning, he was busy winning Event #26, the $1.5K Razz tournament. Congratulations to Barry on his third bracelet and $157,619!
As Greenstein was signing his book for second-place finisher Chris Klodnicki, Chris “sooooted” Vaughn sat in the one seat, taking down small uncontested pots to increase his stack to 55K, well above the average 34K. Amanda Leatherman sat at the next table over guarding Greenstein’s new bracelet, which PocketFives guesstimates would fit around her waist.
Behind Vaughn sat Brock “t_soprano” Parker, who was bullying Bill Chen’s short stack to his right. Chen raised and met a preflop call from Parker. The flop came A
9T
. Chen checked, Parker raised, and Chen called. The turn came the 2, meeting the same action as before. When the 5 came on the river, Chen raised, and Parker called, showing down pocket aces for the win. Parker’s stack was sitting pretty at 70K. Matt “mattster24″ Sterling was also sitting comfortably with over 60K in chips.
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, however, was in trouble with only 15K in chips and sitting at a stacked table with Erick Lindgren, Joe Sebok, and Alex Kravchenko. Fortunately, Mizzi hasn’t given up hope yet; as PocketFives watched, he raised on the button and met a call from one other player in the big blind. The flop came 66
4 and the big blind raised, which Mizzi called. The 8
on the turn met a check from the big blind and a raise from Mizzi. This action induced a fold and Mizzi’s stack grew to more than 21K. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, however, was unable to improve his short stack and was eliminated from the tournament.
The $3K No-Limit Hold’em tournament ended for the night with 81 out of 716 players remaining. Play resumes tomorrow at 2PM PST where many PocketFivers contend for the bracelet and a grand prize of $434,789.