WSOP 2008
Levy’s Ruthless Pursuit of Chips
by AdamJ on 07.10.08, 7:18 pm
Adam “Roothlus” Levy’s (pictured left) resurrection from a short stack last night to 230k at the start of Day 3 of the Main Event has continued escalate. Levy scooped a 280k in the last level in a cutoff vs blind battle when Levy raised in late position and got reraised by his opponent out of the blind. Levy put in another raise, resulting in the massive all-in pot with his AK trailing his opponents pocket jacks. Levy clipped a pair and currently sits with 400k.
Matthew “Burton1080″ Jensen has also been on an enormous tear today, starting with the second hand of the day. A player opened for 4K and Jensen raised to 14K out of the big blind with A-K with the king of clubs. The flop came out {ac]7
2 and Matt led for 20K. The other player raised to 55K and Jensen moved all-in. The other player then folded and Matt picked up a nice sized pot.
2 and Matt led for 20K. The other player raised to 55K and Jensen moved all-in. The other player then folded and Matt picked up a nice sized pot. The first hand back from the first break a player raised to 6K and Jensen repopped it to 16K, which the initial raiser called. The flop was A-10-10 and both players checked. Jensen bet 17K when a small card came on the turn and the other player raised all-in for over 100K. Matt quickly called with A-10 while the other player held K-J. “I guess he didn’t think I had it,” Matt told us. He currently has 520K and is near the top of the chip counts.
Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen (pictured right) had a much slower start to his Day 3 after getting down to 30K early in the day. He has bounced back nicely and recently took a nice sized pot down. With the blinds at 1K/2K ante 300 a player in early position opened to 5.5K and Rosen and the player on the button made the call. The big blind raised to 30K and it folded back around to Jamie who shoved all-in. As the reraiser contemplated the call he said, “anyone else I fold this”, before making the call with pocket tens. Rosen had pocket aces, which held after the board came out and he shot up to 365K.
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert has been treading water all day but has managed to keep his 160k starting stack intact. Increasing that stack will be much more difficult after Wolpert drew an extremely tough table with Owen “ocrowe” Crowe (300k) and “Bodog” Ari Engel (130k).
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury continues to ride the roller coaster he boarded last night as his stack continues to fluctuate in six-figure swings. Steury started the Day 3 with 121k after getting up to 250k late in Day 2. Steury ran his starting stack up to 250k again but got back down to 185k after losing a big pot post-flop with pocket jacks.
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez continues to build a big stack and recently just busted a player in an all-in preflop confrontation. Ramirez re-raised a 10k open to 25k out of the blind with blinds at 1k-2k-300. Ramirez’s opponent went all-in for an additional 40k and Ramirez called with his AK way ahead of his opponents A-10. The board ran true for Ramirez, who has 225k.
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania was fighting the deck most of the day and eventually hit the exit when his kings ran into pocket aces on a ten high flop. Charania started the day with 65k and was able to get up to 125k before his bustout. Others eliminated recently include Bobby “gettindeep” Hodson, Mike “RunScreamin” Herder, Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano, Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert, and Darren Elias.
Here are some chip counts we caught right before the players took their second break of the day:
Matthew “Burton1080″ Jensen - 520K
Andy “tufat23″ Teng - 400K
Jamie “TheCronic420″ - 365K
Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikkelsen - 335K
Owen “ocrowe” - 330K
Hunter “THE_HUNT_D” Frey - 300K
Allen “albari” Bari - 280K
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 250K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 250K
Aditya “intervention” Argawal - 230K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 200K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 190K
Peter “number1pen” Neff - 170K
Bruce “cornellxc11″ Hyde - 165K
Tracey “XtrACEy” Nguyen - 146K
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert - 140K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 135K
Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts - 120K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 120K
Jason Gray - 115K
Tim “tmay420″ West - 106K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 105K
Jason “strassa2″ Strasser - 90K
Jan “Erdnase” Heitmann - 90K
Brett “gank” Jungblut - 84K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 82K
Doug “resilient” Smith - 80K
Kush Patel - 75K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 70K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 66K
Brandon Schaefer - 29K
Andy “tufat23″ Teng - 400K
Jamie “TheCronic420″ - 365K
Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikkelsen - 335K
Owen “ocrowe” - 330K
Hunter “THE_HUNT_D” Frey - 300K
Allen “albari” Bari - 280K
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 250K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 250K
Aditya “intervention” Argawal - 230K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 200K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 190K
Peter “number1pen” Neff - 170K
Bruce “cornellxc11″ Hyde - 165K
Tracey “XtrACEy” Nguyen - 146K
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert - 140K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 135K
Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts - 120K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 120K
Jason Gray - 115K
Tim “tmay420″ West - 106K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 105K
Jason “strassa2″ Strasser - 90K
Jan “Erdnase” Heitmann - 90K
Brett “gank” Jungblut - 84K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 82K
Doug “resilient” Smith - 80K
Kush Patel - 75K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 70K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 66K
Brandon Schaefer - 29K