WSOP 2008
Mackey and Saul Eliminated
by Crystal on 06.13.08, 6:31 am
In event #22, the $3k HORSE event, we’ve had a couple of rather painful casualties. James “mig.com” Mackey (picured left) lost a huge pot during a Stud h/l rotation when he rivered fours full of deuces only to find that his opponent held nines full of eights. The very next hand the game switched to LHE and Mackey raised in middle postion. The same player from the previous hand called the raise from his big blind and they saw the flop come T
52. The big blind checked, Mackey bet, and the big blind called. The 6
came on the turn, the big blind checked and again Mackey bet only this time the big blind raised putting Mackey all in. Mackey called off the rest of his chips and tabled the AK
for the nut flush draw while his opponent held the T5
for two pair. The river brought the J and Mackey was sent to the rail in 25th place worth $6,284.
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul (pictured right) described his stack as a yo-yo because every time he would gain chips he would quickly lose them again. After losing a number of big hands, Saul was all in against Marcel Luske during a LHE hand after a flop of T73. Saul said “Well that was a pretty good flop for my hand” as he tabled his TT which was way ahead to Marcel’s 99. Marcel called for an 8 on the turn but instead came the A and then the Q allowing Saul to double up.
After continuing to yo-yo for awhile Saul’s short stack ended up all in and drew to a full house on 7th street, which was incredibly unfortunate as the game being played was razz and Saul was knocked out in 21st place, good enough for $7,998.
Play has been halted for the evening with 16 players remaining. Eric “EFro” Froehlich is still going strong in this event with 118k in chips which puts him in the middle of the field going into day 2.
Over in the Brazillia room, event #24 the $2.5k PL HE/O tournament is also done for the night with only 85 of the original 457 players remaining. Online players didn’t fare quite as well in this tournament today as many have already been eliminated. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi and Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan are two of the players who will return on day two to fight their way into the money. 45 players will cash in this event with 1st place paying out $246,271.