Stacking Up, Falling Out
by Court on 12.14.08, 10:49 pm
As play works well into the 4th level of the day and the blinds have increased to 200 / 400 with a 50 ante there has been enough time for chips to move around the room and for players to start building stacks, and for others to see their chip counts diminish or be eliminated all together. Darren Elias and Haffa “Hafizzle” Khan have both been able to accumulate over 100k in chips while Garrett “GBecks” Beckman (left) and Gavin Smith find themselves among the early eliminations from the tournament.
Elias was able to win a nice pot early in the day with the Q
8 when everyone checked on a Q
J8 flop in a multi way pot and another queen hit on the river to give Darren a full house. He got 3 way action on the turn and was able to pick up more chips on the river to get off to a good start and has continued to chip up since then.
Alvin “Alsmooth” Zeidenfeld had another player all in and both were drawing to a flush with Al having the best of it. His opponent went runner runner for a straight to beat Alvin. “My PokerStars name beat me,” Al said referring to his online name on Stars of “RunrRunrStr8.” Zeidenfeld still has a few chips to work with, but losing the 70k pot took him from almost being one of the chip leaders in the room to being one of the short stacks.
Here are a few chip counts from around the room:
Haffa “Hafizzle” Khan - 115k
Darren “darrenelias” Elias - 105k (right)
James “mig.com” Mackey - 85k
Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke - 60k
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 60k
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 60k
Justin “Looshle” Pechie - 44k
Blair “bl;ur5f6″ Hinkle - 43k
Tim “Tmay420″ West - 42k
Glen “Choron” Chorny - 40k
Michael “Martine23″ Martin - 38k
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 30k
Alvin “Alsmooth” Zeidenfeld - 20k
