Group Hug
by Brett on 06.17.08, 8:44 pm
Senovio “Dorsal Fin” Ramirez, Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, Adam “adam_mc” McGreggor and Jeff “yellowsub” Williams have just been eliminated from today’s $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em event — and all literally at the same time. Ramirez (pictured right) was crippled when he and another player got it all in on a flop of T
6
2. Ramirez held Q8 and needed help against KK
. The turn and river brought the 6
and J and Ramirez, who was left with 125 chips after losing the 16K pot, was knocked out of the tournament two hands later.
We caught McGreggor and Fricke’s eliminations as the two were seated at nearby tables in the Brasilia room. McGreggor was sitting with 1300 at 150/300 and finally found a spot to open shove, which he did without looking at his cards. The button called him with AJ, which was a favorite against Adam’s 58. The QJJ flop sent Adam out of his seat and toward the rail, where we also saw Fricke headed after his TT ran into AA after all the money had gone in preflop. Williams was seen walking out of the Amazon room shortly after.
A slew of online players are still scattered around the Amazon Room, however. Just under 1,000 of the original 2,158 players are battling to reach Day 2. With the average stack at 7K, here are some unofficial chip counts in Level 5 (150/300):
Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci - 27K
Anna “VietCutie” Wroblewski - 19K
Court Harrington - 19K
Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaughbaugh - 18K
Cal Spears - 16K (pictured right)
Scott “ssitron” Sitron - 14K
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 13K
“BodogAri” Engel - 13K
Eugene Todd - 13K
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 10K
JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado - 10K
Jon Wein - 9K
Andy “tiltyjoker” Lee - 5.5K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 4.5K
Meanwhile, Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin has just been taken out by Johnny Neckar in third place of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event. Vengrin, who had an enormous chip lead earlier in the day, got his last 125K in with A9 against John Phan’s AQ. The board revealed AK728 and Vengrin exited with $167,973. Phan and Johnny Neckar are about to begin heads-up play with almost identical chp stacks.