Short-Handed Event Calls It a Night
by AdamJ on 06.27.08, 4:18 am
During the last level of play in the $5K No Limit Hold Em 6-max event, several players found themselves either doubling up or going home. Glen “choron” Chorny (pictured at left) found himself in the former category when he got it all-in against a slightly smaller stack with Q
Q
versus the other player’s A
K
. The board came out 75439 and Chorny added an additional 30K to his chip count, putting him over the 70K mark.
Some of the players who fell into the “go home” category include Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, who got his remaining 24K all-in in a coin flip situation and failed to win his race. Jason “JCarver” Somerville, who we last repoted was battling a short stack, had worked his way back up to 32K. However, his pocket kings failed to hold against his opponent’s pocket nines and he headed home about an hour before play ended.
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham had about 50K in his stack when, with the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 100, it folded around to the player in the small blind, who raised to 3.2K. Matt made the call from the big blind and the two saw a flop of 932. The small blind bet out 4.5K and Graham made the call. The turn came the 9 and Graham’s opponent bet 12K. Matt then moved all-in for his remaining 40K or so and the other player quickly made the call with 9T. After he saw his opponent’s holdings, Graham mucked his hand and headed for the rail.
Steve “Cornell Fiji” Ware made it to Day 2 of play, but he has significantly less chips than he did when we last checked in with him. Ware was relocated to a table that boasted an impressive line-up of Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Shannon Shorr. Ware has doubled up several of his opponents including a big hand where Grospellier held pocket aces and got it all-in against Steve who had top pair on a queen-high flop. As play concluded, Ware had 40K left in his stack.
Here are our some unofficial chip counts as play wrapped up:
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 175K
Shannon Shorr (pictured at right) - 154K
Alex Jacob - 92K
Glen “choron” Chorny - 76K
Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier - 54K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista - 54K
Jason Gray - 52K
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 44K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 40K
