WSOP 2008
Hanks for Playing
by Brett on 06.09.08, 8:12 pm
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (pictured left) lost a crucial 1 million chip pot when he got it all in with A
K on the flop of A
K
5 against the 78 of Steve Merrifield. The turn brought the 9
, giving Merrifield four more outs, and the Q spelled disaster for Hanks as his stack was slashed down to 250K. He was later taken out by Merrifield when he shoved A2 and was unable to outdraw the AT of his nemesis. Hanks took 5th place for $178,327.
In the $1.5K NLHE Shootout, Jon Wein recently doubled to grab the chip lead at his table. With the blinds at 150/300, the button moved all in but had the small blind and Wein covered. Wein called off his remaining 6K with JJ and was in a race sitaution against AK. The J on the flop increased Jon’s lead and the board bricked for his opponent, shipping a 12K pot to Wein. He currently has almost half of the table’s chips with four remaining.
Chris “sooooted” Vaughn and Casey “ccmuney” Coleman advanced to Round 2 and Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach (6K), Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar (10K) and Tony “Bond18″ Dunst (14.5K) were all heads up in Event #17 as we went into a 20-minute break. Others still battling away are Stu “thedonator” Patterson (3-handed, 10K), Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (4-handed, 9K), Craig “MrCasino” Gray (3-handed, 15K) and Tim “Tim0thee” Adams (2-handed, 14.5K).
Dan “Stainley88″ Adams elimination from the shoot out was particularly painful. Dan moved all in pre-flop with pocket queens and another player tanked for what Dan said was almost two minutes. He asked for a count of Adams’ chips and stood up, clearly conflicted about what to do. He eventually made the call and turned up…pocket aces. Dan subtly suggested the player was slowrolling him and his opponent insisted it wasn’t intentional. He then apologetically explained to Adams that, “he just didn’t like having to call so much with pocket aces.” It worked out for him this time though, as the board was no help to Adams and the other player is currently heads-up at his shoot out table.
Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck has just exited the $1K Ladies Event in 35th place. Mayrick got the rest of her chips in with AQ and couldn’t get the best of her opponent’s 88 on a board of 877Q5. She picked up her second cash of the Wrodl Series for $4,765.