Senioritis
by Jill on 06.24.08, 2:18 am
Event #42 recently took a break to color up their green chips (and take a quick snooze). Before the break, several notable players were taking advantage of their passive tables and aggressively moving up the chip count charts.
As Tom McEvoy (pictured at right, wearing one of his four WSOP bracelets) was racking up his green chips, he was stealing the blinds and raising in position. In one hand PocketFives witnessed, McEvoy got caught - his A
9 couldn’t catch up to his opponent’s pocket queens on a 8
4K
66 board. However, he caught up with the small loss later when he raised to 2,400 in two back-to-back hands on the button and in the small blind. He took down the uncontested pots and increased his stack to 41K.
Before the break, McEvoy managed to even further increase his stack when a limp by the small blind incurred his standard raise - again, 2,400 - and he was called down. The flop was 8K
9. His opponent checked and McEvoy bet 3K, which was swiftly reraised all in. McEvoy called and his opponent showed K-5 to his queens. The turn came the A, but the river hit McEvoy with the Q and he jumped up the count to 51K. The WSOP bracelet McEvoy was wearing glinted in the overhead light as his opponent took his leave.
Meanwhile, Men “The Master” Nguyen (pictured at left) sat two tables over in camaraderie with his table, who were grumbling that they couldn’t defend their blinds against his massive stack. As PocketFives watched, Men raised 2,500 on a rainbow 10-9-3 flop and took down the pot. Greg Raymer entered the tournament area to distract the Master, who asked how much longer the Fossilman has until he qualifies for the Seniors Bracelet. Raymer laughed, but a man at the next table over got in a good jibe — he asked Men, “Are you sure *you* are old enough, Men? It must be that Asian men are so well-preserved!” Everyone within earshot laughed heartily. Men, however, got the last laugh. His chip stack was up to nearly 60K.
“Captain” Tom Franklin sits at the top of the list with 78K. Faring less amicably were Jack McClelland and “Minneapolis” Jim Meehan who were both eliminated in recent levels.
