WSOP 2008
Short Day for Fineman, Amit Takes Lead
by Court on 08.27.08, 5:56 pm
The early double up was what Ben “bfineman” Fineman needed. Instead he got the early exit. He was all in with pocket sixes against Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark’s pocket jacks. The jacks stood tall on the T-9-4-5-K board to eliminate Fineman and push Clark over the 500k chip mark.
Fineman’s 27th place finish made him the first out today, but he will earn the same payout as everyone finishing between 19th and 27th - $21,125.
In the first 30 minutes of play 2 other players were eliminated along with Fineman. Adam Weinraub was eliminated in 26th by Matt Keikoan and Amit “Amak316″ Makhija busted Ron Jenkins in 25th place.
After busting Jenkins, Makhija (right) now has the chip lead in the tournament and over 1.5 million chips. Jenkins started the day 7th in chips with 740k but got caught up in a hand with Makhija that spelled his demise. Jenkins flopped a guthsot and led out only to be raised by Amit who had flopped top pair with AJ. The turn paired the board but also gave Jenkins a flush draw. Ron pushed only to be snap called by Amit and Jenkins bricked out on the river to shift a large pile of chips to Amit.
The players all agreed to forgo the break and roll right into the 8k / 16k level. In the first few minutes of play both Allen Cunningham and Mario Ho were eliminated.
Amit Doubles, Graham Crumbles
by Court on 08.27.08, 3:15 am
After stalling out at 28 players remaining, the field finally got down to the final 27 with two big hands happening at the same time. With hand for hand play in effect due to the money jump between 28th and 27th the four remaining tables were all playing one hand each. Once play got down to 27 the day was complete and all remaining players will return tomorrow to play down to the final 6.
On the table with the least chips, Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham ended up all in for the last of his just over 200k chips against Kyle Wilson. Matt had AK but was up against Wilson’s pocket kings. The kings held and Matt found himself out in 28th place for $14,085 while Wilson jumped to 619,000 chips.
Across the room Amit “Amak316″ Makhija (left) ended the day in high fashion. After flopping a straight on a T
9
8
board Amit was willing to get it all in with Trong Nguyen. The 3
and the 4 filled out the board, missing Nguyen’s few outs and Makhija doubled up to an impressive 842,000 to end the day.
The “Crazys” also survived the day. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson and Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark sat side by side for the last few levels of play, and the two friends made it through the day both finishing over 300k. A quiet Ben “bfineman” Fineman (right) was also able to hold on and will be back for day 4 play with one of the shorter stacks, but only a double up away from being right back in it.
Here are some of the end of day counts:
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija - 842,000
Kyle Wilson - 619,000
Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark - 383,000
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 310,000
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 159,000
Full chip counts for the final 27 are available here.
Dippy Destruction
by Brett on 07.09.08, 6:06 pm
Matt “dippydough” DiPaoli found himself very short early on in the first level of the day but caught fire just before players went on their first break. First, DiPaoli (pictured left) doubled his stack when he got all of his remaining chips in preflop with KK against AK. The board revealed J94J3 and Matt increased his stack to 26K. On the very next hand, a player limped on the button and DiPaoli raised to 2,150 in the small blind. The button called and both players saw a flop of KQJ. Matt led out for 2,100 and the button raised to 5K. Matt then reraised all in and the other player quickly folded. DiPaoli currently has 32K.
Ben “bfineman” Fineman was down to his last 3,575 chips when he moved all-in after it folded around to him with the blinds at 250/500 ante 50. The player on the button reraised all-in behind Ben for 15.3K and the big blind thought for a minute or two before making the call with AK. The button showed JJ and Fineman turned over QJ. Ben needed some help and picked up several outs when the flop came out AKQ.
“How about a T?” Ben asked. He didn’t get much help when a 9 came on the turn and, while it wasn’t the T, the Q on the river was enough to give Fineman the main pot and send him back up to nearly 15K.
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez also picked up a ton of chips early when a player in middle position raised to 1.5K, the player in the hijack called, and Ramirez called on the button. The flop came out 743 and the initial raiser bet out 3.1K. The player in the hijack reraised to 10K and Senovio moved all in for 23.6K. The initial raiser tanked and eventually folded what he claimed was AQ. The reraiser thought for some time before making the call with JJ and Ramirez turned over 33 for bottom set. The turn and river came K2 and Ramirez scooped the large pot to send his stack up to 55K.
A handful of Pocketfivers didn’t make the first break of the Main Event Day 2b. David “ComptonMasta” Barter (pictured right) was eliminated after starting the day with an average stack of 35k. Barter busted when he lost a raise in an all-in preflop confrontation. The initial raiser opened for 2k and got two calls by the time it got to Barter, who made it 10k on the button. The initial opener put Barter all-in for his last 25k and Barter called and was in a flip with his A-K against Q-Q. Barter didn’t improve was eliminated.
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich was sent to the rail after an interesting hand playing alongside Jason “JCarver” Somerville, who reported Rich’s bust out to Pocketfives. According to Somerville, on a flop of K99, Rich’s opponent bet 2k and Rich raised to 6k. Rich’s opponent reraised to 14k and Rich raised all-in for about 10k more. Rich’s opponent called and tabled K-8, and was in remarkable shape given the action against Rich’s A8. The board bricked out for Rich and he was sent to the rail.
Eric “Rizen” Lynch and Eric “sheets” Haber were also sent packing during the past level.
David “Bakes” Baker continues to accumulate a big stack and heads to the break with 200K. Interestingly enough, Baker isn’t even the biggest stack at his table. He has a 280K stack to his immediate left. Here’s a look at some chip counts of those trying to catch Baker here on Day 2B:
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 136K
Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde - 130K
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 123K
Aaron “gotcha55″ Kanter - 106K
Brandon Schaefer - 90K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 80K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 75K
Jeff “japapola” Papola - 70K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 70K
Nachman “thelandlord” Berlin - 65K
Dan “voff” Deveau - 63K
Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle - 59K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 55K
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 55K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 55K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 55K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 54K
Mike Herder - 53K
“BodogAri” Engel - 47K
Ian “IanJ” Johns - 45.5K
Todd Lewis - 42K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 34K
Matt “dippydough” DiPaoli - 32K
Bryan Micon - 30K
Bryan “bparis” Paris - 27K
Scott “mindwise” Pendergrast - 28K
Ben “BSUChamp” Grice - 18K
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 15K
Ronald Lee - 13K
Big Slick No Good for Glasser
by Crystal on 07.06.08, 8:01 pm
Players just returned from their second break of the day and the tournament clock says that the total number of enrants to this years WSOP Main Event now stands at 6,843 which trumps last years registration of 6,358 by 485 players.
Michael “inissint” Glasser (pictured at right) saw his main event dreams end when he got the remainder of his stack in preflop with the AK which was behind to his opponents JJ. The board ran out T7664 and Glasser was sent to the rail. Mike “MGinVA” Gallo was also eliminated when his pocket kings were against pocket eights and his opponent hit an eight on the river to end Gallo’s day. Eric “Willing2Die” Sonstegard, Bryan “odiggitydog” Oshea, and Andrew “tiltyjoker” Lee were also eliminated during the last level.
Brett “Gank” Jungblut was spotted in a hand with Allen Cunningham. With the board reading AK73T and only 1.2k in the pot Gank bet 600 and Cunningham said “I know it’s a bluff” before evenually folding his hand. Brett then showed Cunningham his QJ and Cunningham laughed and said “I guess it wasn’t a bluff” as Brett scooped up the little pot.
Across the room Shane “Shaniac” Schleger, Greg “Funkii” Dyer, and Ben “bfineman” Fineman were all in a pot with three other players. All six players checked the flop of QJ3 and saw the 6 peel off on the turn. This is where things got a little more confusing. Action checked around to Shane who bet 600. Greg made the call and then Ben, who was in the small blind, check-raised to 2.4k. Everyone else got out of the way, Shane folded, and Greg called Ben’s raise. The 5 came on the river and Ben led out for 4.5k. Greg tanked for a bit before eventually folding and Ben scooped the pot.
Here’s another big list of chip counts for you heading into level three!
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 45K
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 41.5K
Mike “BraveJayhawk” Jensen - 40K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 38K
Jason “strassa2” Strasser – 37K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 37K
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 37K
Aaron “ndgrinder59″ Steury - 33K
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 32K
Mike “shipitthisway” McNeil - 32K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 30K
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 30K
Jon “FatalError” Aguiar - 30K
Clayton “clayton_27″ Newman - 30K
Scott “mindwise”Pendergrast - 29.5K
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 28K
Jeremy “chipsteela” Menard - 28K
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 27K
Frank “Round42” Rusnak – 26K
ames “POKERPRO33″ Campbell - 25.5K
Brandon Schaefer - 25.5K
Russell “rcrane082985″ Crane - 25K
Gary “Debo34” Debernardi – 25K
Adam “adamoos” Elpayaa - 24K
Eric “sheets” Haber - 24K
Nick “snowman2k6″ Young - 23K
Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikkelsen - 22K
Bryan “bparis” Paris – 22K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 22K
Greg “Funkii” Dyer – 22K
Kyle “kwob20” Bowker – 20K
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 19K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 18.5K
Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle - 18K
Sasha “bikocruz” Rosewood - 17.5K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 16.5K
David “ComptonMasta” Barter - 16K
Noah “fouruhaterz” Schwartz - 15K
Nathan “darkcheck” Tuthill - 14.5K
Carl “colson10″ Olson - 14K
Brett “gank” Jungblut - 14K
Mike “theredbaron” Beaton - 13.5K
Brian “Poker366″ Hollywood - 13K
Mark “AceSpades” Rodoja – 6K
Sitron Making a Run in 1.5k NL
by AdamJ on 07.01.08, 9:00 pm
Scott “ssitron” Sitron (pictured left) has nearly quadrupled his stack since P5’s last caught up with him a few hours ago.
Sitron currently sits with 250k in Day 2 of the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #52, a stack way above the 82k average with 98 players left with blinds at 1.5k-3k-400.
Sitron said he has been running good and has won a trio of all-ins when he was ahead each time with Q-Q vs 5-5, J-J vs 5-5, and TT vs A-5 suited.
Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh just dipped below his 170k starting stack after he lost 20k in a pot where he re-raised an under the gun raise and got 4-bet and flatted the raise, check-folding on a T94 flop.
George “TheButler” Dietz has moved up from his 35k stack a few hours ago, currently at 70k. Dietz got a favorable seat draw with his back only a few feet from the rail where his friends Kevin “BeLOWaBOVe” Saul and Dan “Wretcy” Martin followed the action.
After starting the day with only 9k, David Daneshgar has held on to the 110k stack he accumulated in the first few hours.
Ben “bfineman” Fineman was one of the early winners of the 1.5k Limit Shootout WSOP Event #53. A handful of other P5er’s are still in the hunt as well.
Tim “TMay420″ West is 3-handed with 13k of the 29k in play and Scott “gunning4you” Seiver is heads-up with 18k. Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson has mounted a big rally in heads-up play, running a 4k stack up to 12k. Brock “t_soprano” Parker is down to 3-handed play but is very short at 2k and Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo is 3-handed with 8k. Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke is 3-handed with 5.5k.