Onward Bound
by Rachel on 06.15.09, 12:55 am
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier made another comeback to advance to the Round of 32 in the $10K heads-up event. He was behind for most of his match against Benjamin Lamb until this hand during the 2.5K/5K level.
Mercier made a bet of 13.5K on a flop of 5
4
3
and Lamb moved all in. We couldn’t hear the table talk clearly, but it sounded like Mercier said, “I was kind of hoping you’d do that.” Still, he took a few moment before deciding to make the call.
“You have a pair?” he asked. The answer was no. Lamb turned over T6, and Mercier flipped up his AK. The turn was the 3 and Mercier paired the K on the river. He doubled up to over 200K with the win.
Later, on a board of AK2
55, Mercier bet 8.5K. Lamb called and Mercier turned over 57 to add to his stack. We caught Mercier making another value bet on the river with the board reading KJ6Q7. This time he raised to 52.5K after Lamb had made a 10K river bet. Lamb called again and Mercier turned over T9 for a king-high straight.
Mercier finally busted Lamb when his A-Q had Lamb’s A-5 dominated in an all in pot before the flop. No help came for Lamb and Mercier was through.
Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko advanced as well, but Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger couldn’t get past John Duthie and Brian “ship_the_perc” Lemke fell as well.
Matchups for the next round:
Alec Torelli v. Jamin Stokes
Jason Mercier v. Nathan Doudney
Yevgeniy Timoshenko v. Bryan Pellegrino
Steve O’Dwyer v. Roberto Romanello
Leo Wolpert v. Mathieu Clavet
Justin Smith v. Johnny Chan
WSOP 2009 Event #27 $2.5K PLO
Players returned from break in Event #27, among the players remaining are Darryll “DFish” Fish, Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron and Kevin “kice32″ Iacafano.
Rami “arbianight” Boukai is still alive, and flopped a big hand over on Table 16. With the board reading AQJ8, an opponent bet 2.1K into Boukai. Rami raised to 8K, and after some deliberation, his opponent folded. Boukai smiled and turned over ATKx8x. “Nice flop eh?” his opponent needled. Rami smiled and raked the pot.
WSOP 2009 Event #28 $1.5K NLHE
There are under a hundred players left in Event #28 and the minimum cash is currently $4,573.
Clark “snake8484″ Hamagami was recently moved to David “Doc Sands” Sands’ (pictured left) table. Sands caused some commotion when he opened a large container of strawberries. “That’s a great play,” joked one of his table mates. Things weren’t so sweet for Sands though. He lost a three way all-in holding 87 against A9 and KK. He was getting the right price but didn’t draw out. A few hands later David tangled with fellow P5er Jake “TheMuffin” Solis. Solis raised to 4K from under the gun and Sands re-raised to 10.5K on the button. Solis called, and the two took a flop of Q44. Both players checked and the turn card was the 6. Solis checked again and Sands bet 12.5K. Jake min-raised to 25K and David called. The river was the K and Solis led out for 40K. Sands instantly folded. Jake chipped up above 180K and David fell to 70K
WSOP 2009 Event #31 $1.5K HORSE
Event #31 hosts a field full of P5ers. Some notables include Isaac Haxton, Brock “t soprano” Parker, Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail.
Noah “fouruhaters Schwartz was one of the first players eliminated. During a round of limit hold’em he got it all in with KQ against AJ and didn’t receive any help from the board.
