WSOP 2008
Ponying Up Chips
by Jill on 06.12.08, 4:06 am
When PocketFives caught up with Event #22, the $3k HORSE players were riding hard in the saddle, trying to collect chips. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured at right) was seated at a table with Marco Traniello and a very tired Ted Forrest, who made it to heads-up play in last night’s final table of the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo event. Josephy referenced the poker dictionary entry for “crying call” when he called off a few thousand chips on trip-3s to trip-aces (two face-up!), lamenting “I just couldn’t help myself!” before his table broke and redrew seats. Thankfully, his stack remained strong at more than double the average.
Meanwhile, Stu “The Donator” Patterson and Eric “EFro” Froehlich were seated next to each other at blue table #10, trading stories and smirks as Eric took down a mid-sized pot in the stud rotation, hitting a club flush to cripple the woman two places to his right. His stack climbed to 18K, nearly double the average.
Chip stack updates for Event #22:
James “mig.com” Mackey - 28K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 25K
Zak “traction” Gilbert - 23K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 23K
Eric “EFro” Froelich - 17K
Mark “pokerbok” Vos - 11K
Stu “THEDONATOR” Patterson - 11K
Justin Bonomo - 8K
Thayer Rasmussen - 2K
On the way out of the Amazon room, PocketFives spotted Brett “Gank” Jungblut hamming it up at a cash game table. Let’s hope his luck holds better when he gets it in good there!