Action was fierce in Level 3 of the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em event. Steve “gboro780″ Gross, Christian “charder30″ Harder and Jon “FieryJustice” Little all met their demise, while several other online stars took big hits to their stacks.
Gross (pictured at left), the top-ranked player on Pocket Fives, lost a good portion of his stack before [...]
Garza Out of the Action
by Court on 02.24.09, 8:44 pm
In a matchup with some history behind it, Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza was eliminated in 46th place by chip leader Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye. Garza was the last person eliminated before the next small pay jump, but he is in no way the only recent elimination. Notably Erica Schoenberg (37th), Haralabos Voulgaris (40th), Nenad Medic (42nd), Maria [...]
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In The Money; Day 3 Complete
by Court on 02.24.09, 12:46 am
With the elimination of Patrick Stemper the filed has been reduced to 63 players and everyone left is in the money. Stemper was left short stacked after Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza was able to hit a flush to double through Stemper who had flopped a set, leaving Patrick with only 8k chips.
Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye (right) will [...]
Double Ups
by Court on 02.23.09, 12:00 am
As day 2 winds down, more and more all in pots are emerging. The result, barring a chopped pot or some other weird occurence, are either a double up or an elimination. For Markus “LURPED” Gonsalves and James “mig.com” Mackey the double up has been the method of choice and both have seen their stock [...]
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Top 25
by Court on 02.22.09, 4:22 pm
The top 25 going into day 2 play include Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye, Anthony “babygrand” Venturini, Bertrand “Elky” Grsopellier, Owen “Ocrowe” Crowe, Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania and Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza. Here are the standings for the top 25 out of the remaining 406 players:
PLACE
FIRST
LAST
CHIP COUNT
TABLE
SEAT
1
K.J.
Nam
135,350
27
9
2
Danny
Wong
132,025
13
9
3
Daniel
O’Brien
116,325
19
5
4
Kofi
Farkye
114,850
48
8
5
Daniel
Negreanu
112,375
25
9
6
Anthony
Venturini
99,975
8
4
7
Kevin
Schaffel
95,350
28
1
8
Steve
Paul-Ambrose
90,675
17
5
9
Bertrand
Grospellier
90,275
42
3
10
Tommy
Hang
88,500
14
9
11
Jeff
Madsen
85,825
23
4
12
Amir
Vahedi
81,225
25
5
13
Owen
Crowe
81,000
27
8
14
Mohsin
Charania
79,275
14
2
15
Rickey
McColley
78,750
53
8
16
Patrick
Stemper
77,825
35
8
17
Nick
Schulman
77,000
19
2
18
David
Pham
76,725
32
9
19
Dan the
Lu
74,900
37
2
20
Antonio
Esfandiari
74,875
27
5
21
Jeff
Garza
74,300
17
1
22
Phil
Ivey
74,275
44
1
23
Anthony
Newman
73,100
54
3
24
Matt
Woodward
70,175
32
4
25
Mark
Newhouse
69,550
45
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