WSOP 2008
Slaubaugh Leading Heads-Up Battle
by AdamJ on 06.22.08, 12:35 am
Despite starting heads-up play with a 3-1 chip disadvantage, Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh now has nearly has a 2-1 chip lead over Jesper Hougaard as players head to an hour dinner break in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #36.
It’s been a dramatic run to heads-up play for Slaubaugh, who was all-in with a pair of sevens and a gutterball against two-overs and a flush draw on the flop with two tables left late last night. Slaughbaugh has 480k to Hougaard’s 250k.
Many P5er’s are making waves in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #39 as 480 of 2,720 remain.
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (pictured left) has been atop the leaderboard from the onset but has taken a hit to a stack that was over 45k as players returned from dinner break.
Clements got priced-in to losing a big pot when his 3-bet got 4-bet all-in preflop in the 300-600-75 level. Clements reraised a 2500 open to 5500 only to have a player from the cutoff go all-in for 7300 more.
After crunching some numbers, Clements called and his T
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failed to run down his opponents Q
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.
Clements currently has 22k, slightly more than the 17k chip average.
Here are some other notable chip stacks left.
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 50k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 45k
Barry Greenstein - 43k
Joshua “pbdrunks” VanDuyn - 36k
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz - 31k
Theo Tran - 26k
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 23k
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 6k
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 4.5k
In WSOP Event #38, the $2k PLHE, there are only 12 players remaining. Unfortunately two of the latest casualties are P5ers Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski and Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski.
Dombrowski was eliminated when his pocket jacks ran into another players pocket queens and he failed to improve finishing in 15th place.
Sluzinski pushed all-in on a board showing T926 and his opponent (with slighly less chips) quickly called with the 99 for 2nd set while Sluzinski was only able to show the A8 for a gutshot straight draw. The 6 came on the river and Sluzinski was crippled down to a mere 10k.
He later pushed all-in with the AJ and was called by the big blind who held the K8. The flop came K83 giving the big blind two pair and giving Sluzinski a flush draw. The turn was the 6 and the river the 9 and Sluzinski was eliminated in 13th place. Both Sluzinski and Dombrowski earn $11,562 for their efforts over the past two days.