Online Stars Collide Early in $2.5K
by Brett on 06.05.09, 5:05 pm
Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant and Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong (pictured left) were seated side-by-side in today’s $2.5K No Limit Hold ‘em event and it didn’t take long for the chips to fly.
With the blinds at 50/100, Vinsant raised to 250 and Armstong reraised to 700. Action folded back around to Vinsant, who 4-bet to 2.4K and Amstrong moved all in for around 5.2K. Vinsant snap called, showing A
K
and needed help against the QQ
of Armstrong.
The K came in the door and the rest of the board ran out 6
464, sending Armstrong home and increasing Vinsant’s stack to nearly 16K.
Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens was also able to double his stack as Level 2 began. Plens and two other players saw a flop of KQ7. Plens check-raised a bet of 900 to 3100, the original bettor moved all in and Plens called:
Plens: JT
Opponent: AK
The 4 on the turn was no help to Plens but the river 3 gave him a flush and increased his stack to 14K. Two hands later he eliminated the other player when his AQ held against K8.
Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer’s tough luck in Level 1 continued today. O’Dwyer picked up A-K in late position and got of his chips in the middle against the pocket jacks of Kyle Wilson. The pair held and O’Dwyer was sent to the rail as one of the earlier exits of the day.
We’ve counted at least 100 P5ers in Event #13. Here are a few we saw seated just feet apart from each other in the Amazon Room:
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams
Shannon Shorr
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin
Aditya “intervention” Agarwal
Jordan Morgan
Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci
Michael “mossified84″ Skomac
Some chips counts at the first break:
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 16K
Lee “acumen53″ Childs - 14K
Court Harrington - 14K
Joe Sebok - 12K
Devin “tranquilchaos” Porter - 10.2K
Anthony “D1rtyR1v3r” Nardi - 9.6K
Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton - 8.5K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 8.5
WSOP 2009 Event #11: $2K NLHE
The $2K NLHE Event #11 just got underway at 2:00 pm. To give you an idea how many P5ers are still alive, here’s a long list we put together:
Patrick “BigRed0000″ Stemper - 165,000 (Chip leader)
Scott “stpauli111″ Hall - 144,000 (pictured right)
Tyler “tydean” Smith - 126,300
Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka - 70,200
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 67,000
Austin “quietwinner” McCormick - 61,000
Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker - 57,500
Ryan “late_entry” Gentry - 55,100
Kenny “hixx” Hicks - 54,800
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 53,000
Randy “Randers” Haddox - 50,300
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 48,800
Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery - 46,400
Eric “white_mamba” Ladny - 45,000
Dan “Wretchy” Martin - 43,100
Jordan “scarface _79″ Smith 41,400
Cory “Ozone” Albertson - 40,400
Matt “Claw1980″ Holtzclaw - 37,100
Jason “JAKoon1985″ Koon - 35,500
Adam “akat11″ Katz - 34,300
Amanda “Mandy_B” - 31,800
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 31,100
Kevin “bukowski101″ McColgan - 30,100
Jason “JP_OSU” Potter - 28,600
Jeffrey “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 22,500
Jason Gray - 22,400
Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck - 18,700
WSOP 2009 Event #9: $1.5K Six-handed NLHE
Bryn Kenney was the first player eliminated at the final table of the $1.5K Six-handed event. Kenney got involved in a blind-vs-blind battle all of his chips went in preflop with A9 against the big blind’s AJ. Bryn’s hand didn’t improve and he was sent home in 8th place with $42,320.
