WSOP 2008
Rebuy Bye Bye
by Jessica on 06.18.08, 7:14 pm
Now that the rebuy period in the $1.5K has ended, some of the loose, erratic plays we have spotted around the room is likely coming to an end. Some players, like Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis and Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, decided to cut their losses and call it a day before the rebuy period was even over.
Several other players remain in the field, but had to decide whether it was a worthwhile prospect to add-on. Someone who probably didn’t bother with adding on is Jamie “TheNew” Robbins (pictured at right) who has already built up over 20K in chips. Phil Ivey leads the pack with 90K and Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi isn’t far behind with 78K. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, and Scott “BigRiskky” Clements also continued to accumulate chips.
At one point early on in the event Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul had more rebuy chips than tournament chips as he sat with the minimum starting amount of 3K. He has since worked his way back up over the 10K marker.
In the $2.5K NLHE 6-handed event, play is already 4-handed and Dario Minieri continues to build on his substantial chip lead. Seth “grtwhitehoop” Fischer and Justin “fluffdog” Filtz 3rd and 4th in chips respectively.
Scott “ssitron” Sitron (pictured left) has just vaulted toward the top of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em leaderboard by busting a player and chipping up to 190K. A player moved all in from the hijack for his last 19K and Sitron called from the small blind with A
T
, which was way behind AK
. That is until the flop of K
QJ gave Sitron a straight. “I saw the king in the window and hoped a queen or jack would show up to give me more outs,” Sitron joked after his hand held. Someone is running well…
Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman was knocked out of the event during the last level, but Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci (119K), Court Harrington (58K) and Shawn “buck21″ Buchanan (50K) are still alive with 98 players left.