WSOP 2008
The Sowers Taste of Defeat
by Jessica on 06.18.08, 2:18 am
It looked to be a showdown of the North Carolinians when Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (pictured at left) was moved to Court Harrington’s table after the dinner break. Before the two could tangle, Sowers got involved with another player at the table when he raised to 2,050 in late position with the blinds at 400/800 and a 100 ante and the player in the big blind called. The flop came out A
8
7
and both players checked. When the A came on the turn, the big blind bet out 1,200 and Sowers raised to 3K total. The other player then put in a third raise to 6,200 total. Sowers thought briefly before flat calling, leaving 14K behind. When the 4 came on the river, his opponent bet 12K and Mike didn’t hesitate long before making the call. The player showed A
8 for a full house and Sowers mucked.
The very next hand Sowers shoved for his remaining 4,725 with J8 and ran into the pocket kings of the player on the button. A king on the flop pretty much sealed Mike’s fate and he was sent to the rail right before the final break of the evening. Others joining him on the rail include Cal Spears and Stu “thedonator” Patterson.
Though Court will no longer be able to compete with Sowers, he has gotten involved in a chip stacking competition with another big stack at a nearby table. Clayton “clayton_27″ Newman came over to Harrington’s table and challenged him to a creative chip stacking war. Both boast some impressive chip stacks. Newman has 75K and Harrington is not too far behind with 65K. Clayton has opted for the tall and skinny method of chip stacking while Court’s chips have been arranged into a multi-tiered pyramid. We’ll keep you posted if they get any more creative in these last two levels. In the meantime, here are some updated chip counts:
Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci - 50K
Scott “ssitron” Sitron - 35K
Phillip Yeh - 27K
Shawn “buck21″ Buchanan - 25K
JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado - 22K
Andrew “tiltyjokers” Lee - 19K
Over in the Brasilia room, Bruno Fitoussi took a big hit to his stack minutes after players returned from the break in the 2.5k 6-max NL WSOP Event #31 with eleven players left.
Fitoussi raised preflop and John O’Shea from the blind called. The player led into Fitoussi for 35k on a K63, and Fitoussi raised him to 115k only to be faced with a re-raise all-in back at him. Fitoussi called with K6 for top two pair but was trumped when his opponent tabled a set with 33.
The hand left Fitoussi with 120k, losing 360k in the pot.
Joining Fitoussi are P5ers Frank “Round42″ Rusnak and Seth “grtwhitehoop” Fischer. Rusnak has chipped up a lot in the past hour and has 500k. Fischer is the short stack with 183k.
Justin “Fluffdog” Filtz is also at the table staying steady with his stack at 497k.
The other table includes Dario Minieri and Scotty Nguyen. Minieri has 300k and Nguyen has 380k.