WSOP 2008
Staying Hot
by Court on 04.21.08, 11:36 pm
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach (left) busted Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy earlier and has continued to accumulate chips throughout the rest of the day. A rough count as the last level of the day winds down puts him at 250k chips. Bryan Devonshire has jumped out to the chip lead, sitting with 415k chips at last check. Not only has Bryan amassed a huge pile of chips, he has done it at a difficult table with Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Daniel Negreanu, Matt Hazards21″ Gianetti and Isabelle Mercier all at his table.
Fohrenbach’s table is no cakewalk either. He was able to grab some of his chips from Erik Seidel earlier and also has Mark Newhouse, Tim “Tmay420″ West, Nick Binger and Kristy Gazes at his table.
In the hand with Seidel, Fohrenbach bet 20k on a board of K
9
5
2 and Erik raised to 55k. Richard asked how much he had behind (over 100k) and after a couple of moments announced he was all in. Erik folded and Fohrenbach raked in the pot. A little later in the day Fohrenbach picked up another pot with a bet on the river to push his stack up to 250k.
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll (right) was almost out the door earlier, but he hit his flush and took a huge pot off of Tom “durrrr” Dwan. After a table break Carroll has continued to pick up chips, eliminating a player when his pocket fours held up against AQ. Cory had opened the pot and a player moved all in for 25,200 more. Cory counted out the chips, glanced back at his cards, and after a short pause tossed in the chips to make the call. The board came T-9-9-9-K to send the pot Carroll’s way. Corey is up to 350k as the day winds down.
Joe Sebok has also continued to chip up and is around 280k as players go into the last 9 hands of play for the day.
The field has just dropped to an even 200 players, so by the time these last 9 hands are played out over half the players left will make the money.