Jaka Gives and Jaka Takes Away
by Rachel on 07.01.09, 2:16 am
Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka has been keeping busy at his table in the $5K NLHE six-max event, raising and re-raising in practically every hand he’s playing…and he’s playing a lot of hands.
He raised to 1.6K before the flop and got two callers in one hand we watched him play. The flop was Q
T5
. It was checked to Jaka, who bet 3K. The player in seat four called and the other player folded. The turn was the J. Jaka’s opponent checked and he bet 8.1K. The other player made the call and the river was the 6. Jaka bet 24K, or about the same amount as the other player had left in his stack, and after thinking for a short while the other player called and showed K-10 to take the pot.
A little later the player in seat six raised to 2.2K pre-flop with the blinds at 400/800 with an ante of 100. Jaka then re-raised to 5.5K and the other player called when it folded back to him.
The flop was 99
6 and both players checked. The turn was the 9
. The other player checked again and Jaka bet 8K. Seat six called and the river was the K. It was checked to Jaka again and he tossed two orange chips high into the air and into the pot for a 10K bet. The other player called and Jaka showed 62 and the other player mucked. With the win, Jaka was up to about 80K.
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar was moved to Jaka’s immediate left just before the players were sent on their final break of the night. We’ll see if that changes anything when the players return.
David “DavidP18″ Peters and Darryll “DFish” Fish had already seen a flop of J53 as we walked up to their table and caught Fish calling a bet from Peters. The flop was the 8. Peters led out for 3,250 and Fish raised to 6,225. Peters went into the tank for quite a while before announcing all in. Fish called instantly and tabled Q9 while Peters showed J-8 for a turned two pair. The river was the 6 and Fish doubled through Peters, who was left with less than 5K in his stack. Fish, on the other hand, chipped up to 55K or so.
Shaun Deeb also doubled up during the last level with pocket aces. He was up to about 40K after the hand.
Eric “whitE_mAmbA” Ladny has been moved to the same table as Owen “ocrowe” Crowe. When we caught up with the two of them in a hand, Ladny had either bet or raised to 7.5K on a flop of J42 and Crowe had re-raised to 26K, essentially putting Ladny all in.
Ladny said he would look pretty stupid if he and called and was wrong while he thought about what to do.
“If you had a pair you’d snap, right?” Crowe said, leading us to believe the two were aware of each other’s identity.
We don’t know if that’s true, but we do know that Ladny folded his hand and the pot was shipped to Crowe.
WSOP 2009 EVENT #54 $1.5K NLHE
Andrew “tufat23″ Teng, Alex “Kadabra” Keating, Joe “Dyzalot” Morneau and Alexandre “allingomes” Gomes were all eliminated from Event #54 in the past hour.
Teng, pictured left, was left with only 3K after running jacks into queens. On the very next hand he stuck his three yellow chips in the middle but his J-8 couldn’t catch up to the 10-10 of Brandon Wong.
With a raise to 15K in front of him, Keading pushed all in from middle position. Josh “theNorfman” Norris called on the button and the original raiser folded. Keading’s JT was way behind the AA of Norris. The AT4 flop gave Alex a back-door draw and the Q on the turn kept him alive. The 3 did not complete his straight though, and he was sent to the rail. Norris has a nice stack, he now sits with 275K.
Morneau tried to three-bet steal when he raised all in holding 86. Unfortunately for Joe the original raiser called holding KQ. The board ran QJT52, and the pot was shipped away from Morneau. The very next hand Joe open shoved from the cutoff when the action folded to him and the player in the small blind re-shipped to isolate him. The big blind folded and Morneau’s opponent tabled AQ. “I’m live,” Joe said turning over 32. Sure enough there was a deuce on the flop, but an ace on the turn and a blank on the river sent Morneau packing.
Gomes tried to grab a pot by three-betting too. Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar opened to 20K with the blinds at 3K/6K/500 and Alexandre re-raised 120K all in from middle position. Action folded back to Rajkumar who snap called tabling KK. Gomes was behind with AT, and received no help from the 7-5-8-K-8 board. Alexandre hit the rail while Vivek’s stack ballooned to 270K.
Joe “JoeBlazennyc20″ Chaplin continues to grow his stack. An opponent open shoved about 60K on the button and Chaplin isolated from the small blind. The big blind folded and Joe saw that his JJ was way ahead of his opponent’s 4-7. Chaplin held and now boasts 300K chip stack.
WSOP 2009 EVENT #52 $3K NLHE TRIPLE CHANCE
Jason “JCarver” Somerville has been eliminated from his second final table of the 2009 WSOP.
Somerville shoved all-in from the small blind and Jason “TheMasterJ33″ DeWitt called from the big blind. Somerville held K7 against the A6 of DeWitt and did not improve. Somerville will have to settle with 5th place and $103,691.
