WSOP 2008
Double Double (or Toil and Trouble)
by Crystal on 07.11.08, 5:17 pm
After a little over an hour into play today at the WSOP Main Event it had been apparent that many of the players have the “go big or go home” mentality as we have heard the “all-in and a call!” shout coming from dealers numerous times all over the room. We’re already down to 408 of the 474 players that started the day.
Tracey “XtrACEy” Nguyen (pictured left) was caught in one of these confrontations, but she wasn’t the one at risk. She and a shorter stacked player got all the chips in preflop with Tracey’s 9
9
ahead of her opponents A3. The flop came T
72 keeping Tracey in the lead but the A on the turn reversed things and the Q on the river changed nothing so Tracey doubled the other player up and dropped to around 380k in chips.
A player at risk during his all in was Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis who got all his chips in before the flop holding the QQ against another players T
T. The board ran out K324J and Steve managed to double his stack up to around 350k.
Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen started the day with 576k in chips and seemed to be using his big stack to try and take out some of his weaker opponents. On a flop of T98 Rosen checked to his opponent who bet 40k. Jamie then raised to 100k and his shorter stacked opponent raised all in and Jamie made the call. The all-in player was ahead with the JT for top pair with an open-ended straight draw in the lead against Jamie’s 86 for a flush draw with a lesser-gutshot straight draw. The turn brought the A and the river was the 7 giving both players a straight but the all-in player held the better one and scooped up the pot knocking Jamie down to around 280k.
It didn’t take Jon “PearlJammer” Turner long to increase his 726k stack considerably in the first thirty minutes of play. The chips didn’t come easy however as Turner had to call an 85k river bet with his set of eights on a board with three hearts and a jack to a straight against his opponent Dustin Holmes. Turner’s hand was good, shipping him a pot near 300k. Turner won a few hands after that as well and is now near the one million mark.
Tim “TMay420″ West picked a good spot to get his last few chips in but was unable to outrace Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts. Brent raised to 15K in early position and West moved in for 51K. Roberts made the call with AQ, which was behind Tim’s JJ. The 643 flop added a slew of outs for Roberts, and the 4 left West needing help. The K fell on the river and West was eliminated, earning $27,020 for his performance. Roberts chipped up to 360K.
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter, on the other hand, was able to dodge a bunch of outs to double his stack. David “Bakes” Baker raised to 14K in middle position and Porter moved all in for 46K. Baker made the call, showing JT and Porter flipped over A6. Porter got out of his seat when he saw the flop of KQ7, saying “Well, see you later!” but his hand was able to hold when the 8 and 7 filled the board. Porter is up to over 100K.
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe continued his onslaught by eliminating a player and climbing over the 1 million chip mark. Crowe got his money in on the turn with 99 on a board of 9247 and had his opponent drawing dead. He now has nearly 1.3 million, which is right near the top of the leaderboard.
Here’s a look at some chip counts midway through the first level on Day 4:
Peter “number1pen” Neff - 660K
Keith “damurdera3″ Fererra - 615K
Paul “ComeOnPhish” Lieu - 600K
David “raptor517″ Benefield - 540K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 475
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 415K
Mark “AceSpades” Radoja - 400K
Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikkelsen - 260K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 280K
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 180K
Thayer Rasmussen - 153K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 150K
Hunter “The Hunt D” Frey - 105K
Clayton “clayton_27″ Newman - 140K
Record Field at End of Day 1A, Stout Doubles Through Roberts
by AdamJ on 06.01.08, 2:21 am
Nearing the end of day 1A of the 1.5k NL event, Matt “All in At 420″ Stout picked up a key hand at just the right time to advance Day 2 on Monday.
With the blinds at 500-1000 with a 100 ante, a player from middle position opened to 3k and Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts went all-in for 16k with AQ.
By the time the action got back to Stout he peeked at AA and went all-in for his remaining 15k.
Stout’s aces prevailed without a sweat, sending Roberts to rail minutes before the tournament closed at the 225 cutoff.
The tournament closed at 225 players to ensure that there would be a money bubble after both starting days concluded.
With one of the biggest stacks throughout the day, Shane “Shaniac” Schleger ascended to chip lead nearing the end of the day before his stack took a hit, dipping down to 88k.
Schleger’s table got progressively tougher as the day went on, ending with a lineup of Todd “DanDruff” Witteles, Todd Brunson, Gavin Griffin, and Bill Gazes.
The 1.5k NL event broke a record for entries for a preliminary WSOP tournament with 3,692 entries, shattering last year’s tally of 3,151 set during the final week of last year’s WSOP and will likely balloon to an even larger number until registration closes tomorrow.