WSOP 2008
Elezra, Sowers chip leaders; Mizzi eliminated
by Crystal on 05.31.08, 4:02 am
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi was knocked out when his A
K got rivered by another players J
T
. The player holding JT pushed all in following Mizzi’s raise. Mizzi called the all in and when he saw the other players cards he asked “Are you rich?”. The other player responded with, “Well I needed to double up.” Unfortunately for Mizzi, the other player did all but double up when the board came 3227
J, taking all of Mizzi’s chips in the process.
Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton minraised preflop and Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul defended his blind. On a flop of KQ2 Saul checked and Haxton bet around half the pot and Saul called. The 7 turned and Saul checked and Haxton bet 6500 and Saul called. The river was the 4 and Saul checked and Haxton went all-in for 17k and Saul called. Haxton tabled the KT and Saul mucked.
In a battle of the blinds at 1-2k level, Phil Laak completed from the sb after it was folded to him and Shaun Keller raised to 6k and Laak called. They both checked a J27. Laak bet 8k on the turn when the 10d dropped and Keller called. Laak fired 23,300 on the river and Keller studied for a few minutes. After more thought, Keller, who was sitting to Laak’s right, went into a prolonged stare at Laak’s face and then grabbed 23k in chips. Keller studied further and said “what are the chances you’ll show me if if fold,” until finally calling to see Laak’s J7 for a flopped two pair. Keller mucked.
Here are the approximate chip counts of some of the leaders at the end of day 1. Eli Elezra ended as the chip leader with about 300k in chips with Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (pictured) behind him with about 250k, Nenad Medic 210k, Justin Newton 230k, and Tuan Le 180k.
About 70 players remain at the end of the day and they will redraw for seats tomorrow.
With a bigger buy-in event as the opening event this year, Day 1 was rather calm, but the players are all ready for the large field that Day 2’s $1.5k event will bring tomorrow.