Why is Jordan Rich playing Omaha Hi-Lo? Who doesn’t know Gary Bogdanski?
by Rachel on 05.31.09, 3:31 am
Eli Elezra has been moved to Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich’s table, which was already home to Freddy Deeb and Erick Lindgren.
After Rich won the low half of a pot a hand with Deeb holding 2-2-5-5 on the button on a J
9
4
8A, Eleza expressed his surprise at seeing Rich in the field.
“Jordan Rich what are you doing here,” he asked. “You’re a no-limit player.”
Rich just shrugged his shoulders and said, “I’m bored,” with a grin.
Rich has been treading water for a while, but appears to still have around 100K in front of him.
PocketFivers Annie Duke (pictured at left) and Senovio “Dorsal Fin” Ramirez split a pot that saw Duke put the last of her chips in the middle. Duke was all in before the flop and got two callers, including Ramirez. Both players checked the KQ7
flop. The turn was the 8 and Ramirez called a 10K bet from the other player. He called another 10K bet after the 5 fell on the river.
Duke stayed alive when her A-2-3-5 won her the low half of the pot while Ramirez got the high half with his A357 for a rivered two pair.
After that hand Annie made a nice comeback and reached 90K at one point, but she has since fallen back down to 25K. Ramirez has around 150K with 35 players remaining. The players will continue to play down to the final table tonight.
Unfortunately, Brock “t_soprano” Parker is no longer in the event. After fighting a short stack for most of the last couple of levels, Parker was eliminated in 39th place. Shortly after the betting limits went up to 3K/6K Brock moved all-in for his last 12K from under the gun and both the small blind and the big blind called. The flop came Q86 and the big blind got the last of his chips in against the small blind. The turn and the river came 42 respectively. The trio of players turned up their hands and here is how they broke down:
Big Blind: A-Q-7-5 for a straight to the eight and an A-5 low
Small Blind: K-K-9-6 for a pair of kings
Parker: A-K-J-5 for ace high and an A-5 low
The player in the big blind took three quarters of the pot and Brock was given the remaining quarter worth 9K. He got it all-in blind the next hand with 4-7-9-9, which failed to take any part of the pot as the board ran out J62KQ. He takes home $5,651 for his finish.
WSOP EVENT #4: 1K NLHE
The action at Table 39 of the $1K Stimulus Event, which features P5ers Jeff “yellowsub” Williams, Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski (pictured at right) and Mark “pghfan987″ Busch, has been nothing short of entertaining this evening.
With the blinds at 300/600 ante 75, Bogdanski raised from early position to 1.6K and Williams reraised to 3.9K from the button. Gary stood up from his chair and asked for a count of Willliams’ stack, but Jeff had him out-chipped. Bogdanski took a few moments before folding and Williams flipped over K3.
“We’re even now,” said Williams, to which Bogdanski replied, “I didn’t even put a move on you!” The small pot increased Jeff’s stack to 25K.
It’s a wonder Bogdanski can focus on the poker game at all. You see, Gary is a little distressed about how another poker news site reported on a previous hand involving himself and Jeff. The hand recap clearly identified Williams while Bogdanski was referred to as “his opponent.” After we informed Gary of this information, he spent the next few minutes lamenting his unrecognizability.
“Unknown player?? You would think they would at least say ‘unbelievably handsome unknown player.’”
While Williams and Bogdanski bantered and battled, Busch made a big lay down when he folded pocket jacks to a big re-raise from another player despite getting somewhat short stacked. He is currently sitting with 15.5K.
Recent eliminations in the $1K event include Jason Gray, Frank “Blueberleez” Jordan, Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant, and Shane “shaniac” Schleger.
