Maimone Nick-els and Dimes His Way to 2.7 Mil
by Jessica on 07.13.09, 10:16 pm
We are on Day Six of the Main Event and Nick “fu_15″ Maimone (pictured left) claims he still hasn’t been all-in for his tournament life. After starting the day with just shy of one million chips, Nick has been on an upswing this third level of the day and he now has 2.7 million chips. He picked up a sizeable pot earlier today when a player opened for a raise, another player flatted, and Nick 3-bet with A
Q. The initial raiser called and the two players got it all-in on the Q-J-3 flop with the other player holding K-Q to Nick’s A-Q. The ace kicker held to bust the player and ship the pot Maimone’s way.
This past level a player opened for a raise from the button with the blinds at 12K/24K ante 3K, Nick 3-bet to 160K from the small blind holding pocket tens, and the player in the big blind cold 4-bet to 300K. Maimone called and the two players saw a 10-3-3 flop. Nick checked, the other player bet 250K and Nick called. Both players checked when the 4 hit on the turn and Maimone led for 250K when a 9 fell on the river. The other plyaer, who had around 850K left in his stack elected to fold and Maimone picked up the pot to take him up to 2.7 million.
Joe “jcada99″ Cada added 250K to his stack by way of Kenny Tran right before the dinner break. Sitting with under 500K, Tran opened to 75K from middle position and Cada, seated to his direct left, made it 220K to go. Action folded back to Tran and he made the call. The flop came A
65
and Tran check to Cada, who bet enough to put Kenny all in. Tran folded immediately, leaving himself with 280K at the end of the level. Cada will return with 1.4 million.
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp was able to eliminate Joe Hachem and solidify his chip lead when Hachem moved all-in at the 12K/24K ante 3K blind level for his last 117K. Kopp called with pocket fours and he was racing with J
9. The K77 flop gave Hachem about a bajillion outs, but the A on the turn was not one of them nor was 3 on the river. Hachem was eliminated and Kopp surged up near the 6 million chip mark. He’s since lost a few of those chips back though and headed to dinner with 5.18 million (good enough for third in
Here are as many dinner break chip counts as we could grab. As a reference, an average chip stack would be 1,928,911 chips:
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp (pictured right) - 5.18 million
Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd - 3.28 million
Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger - 2.9 million
Scott “Chipless Wonder” Cook - 2.85 million
Nick “fu_15″ Maimone - 2.7 million
Grayson “gray31″ Ramage - 2.35 million
Jamie “The New” Robbins - 2.1 million
Jesse “thor” Haabak - 1.7 million
Scott Sitron - 1.58 million
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 1.5 million
Joe “jcada99″ Cada - 1.4 million
Clayton “clayton27″ Newman - 1.4 million
Jordan “sacrface_79″ Smith - 1.26 million
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 650K
Blair Rodman - 500K
Matt “mcmatto” Affleck - 460K
Joe Sebok - 345K
