Luck of the Draw
by Jessica on 07.04.08, 6:39 pm
With a much smaller crop of internet players playing on Day 1B, it was somewhat surprising for Tom “sbrounder” West to arrive almost an hour late to the tournament and discover Shaun Deeb (pictured at right) sitting on his left. However, the two joked to each other that in some ways, it seemed kind of inevitable. The two have been bantering back and forth ever since Tom’s arrival. For a while, they were joined by railbird and aspiring poker commentator Carter “ckingusc” King. King provided PocketFives with his own comments and insights when the two got involved in small pots together and keeping Shaun entertained when he was not involved in a hand. At one point, King even heckled Deeb until he persuaded his friend to order a drink for him and save him a trip to the bar. We think Carter has gone off to find more patriotic ways to spend his 4th of July, but if we spot him wandering around the Amazon Room again, we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
We checked back in on Shaun and Tom after the break and found both sitting with their 20K starting stacks engaged in conversation. Deeb claims West has raised every single pot since coming back from break, but the hand we stuck around for Tom conspicuously folded.
Nick “gbmantis” Niergarthrecently lost a big pot when he and another player got it all in on a flop of K-8-5 with two spades with Nick holding top set of kings to the other player’s 6
7 for the open-ended straight flush draw. Nick led out at the flop, the other player raised, Nick moved all-in, and the other player made the call. A 4 fell on the turn and Niergarth’s chips fell from almost 20K to just over 8K. He has since worked his way back up to 10.5K, but he still has a lot of ground to make up.
Here are some chip counts we spotted an hour into Level 2:
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 34K
Todd “DanDruff” Witteles - 31.5K
Paul “Come On Phish” Lieu - 31K
Mike “SirWatts” Watson - 30K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 25.5K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 25K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 24.5K
Blair Rodman - 23K
Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold - 23K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 21K
Matt “SamENole” Smith - 18K
Steve “gboro780″ Gross - 16K
Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman - 13.5K
Theo “pitrounder” Tran - 12K
Tim “EightLarge” Vansant - 11.5K
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski - 9K
Brian “Wing-n-prayer” Reingold - 5.5K
Micah “mordan” Hendrix - 4K
