WSOP 2008
Dombrowski and Rosen Sidelined, Roothlus Chipping Up
by Court on 11.06.08, 7:17 pm
As play moves into the 4th level of the day Adam “Roothlus” Levy has been able to win a few pots to chip up while other players have seen their tournaments come to an end. 
Both Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski (pictured) and Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen have been sent to the rail in recent action.
Levy has recently been moved to a new table and is now on the left on Mike “inissint” Glasser. Before the move Levy was able to pick up some chips in a pot where a player opened for 800 and Levy raised to 2,250. After he was called the flop came J
6
5
and Adam bet 2,950 after it was checked to him. The other player called and withe the 2 on the turn Levy was able to take the pot with a bet of 5,800 once it was checked over to him.
After that Adam eliminated a player when his AK outran pocket tens. A player had opened for 1,600 and Adam raised to 5,500. A third player then moved all in for over 15k and once it folded to Levy he made the call. An ace on the turn gave Roothlus the pot and built his stack to around the 85k he currently has.
Chip Counts:
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 85k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 45k
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 38k
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija - 31k
Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker - 22k
Don “dbase22″ Yucius - 9k
Steury’s Stack Slips
by Brett on 07.10.08, 2:07 am
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury’s (pictured left) perch near the top of the chip throne was short lived as he got tangled up in a massive pot after the dinner break. Steury defended his blind in a raised pot and flopped trips on a baby board and check-raised his opponent, who called. The turn brought another small card that completed the flush draw on the flop and Steury’s turn bet got raised. Steury ended up having his opponent all-in on the turn but his opponent turned the flush and Steury didn’t improve to a boat, shipping over a 200k pot away from Steury, who still has over 100K after the carnage.
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez pulled PocketFives aside to report on the hand which allowed him to double up to 120K in the last level. Ramirez said that a player in middle position raised 3K preflop and the hijack called, so he felt compelled to call with his 98. The board came 922 and the player in middle position fired out an 8.4K bet which was called down by the hijack. Taking advantage of his pot odds, Ramirez decided to push all in for his remaining 20K. The player in middle position tanked for quite awhile before folding and then the hijack called, showing 53 for the flush draw. The turn and river brought the 6
9 and Ramirez’ full house pulled down the entire 110K pot. When asked what he did to get so lucky on his dinner break, he replied, “I got to talk to my daughters! That’s what it was!”
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna (pictured right) was able to double up upon returning from dinner break when a player raised in the hijack and Brian flat called in the cut off. The other player checked in the dark before the flop came out 8-6-5 rainbow. Lamanna bet out 10K and his opponent reraised all-in for 30K more. Brian made the call with pocket tens and the other player showed A-5. The turn and river were no help to the other player and Brian doubled up to 90K.
Chris “cdbr3799″ Dowbrowski was sent to the rail after reshoving a raise from the button for his last 20K and running his A6 into TT. The board ran out Q65K3 and Chris was eliminated.
Here are a whole heap of chip counts heading into the last break of the day:
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 230K
Mike “RunScreamin” Herder - 191K
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 183K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 170K
Brandon Schaefer - 162K
Allen “abari” Bari - 150K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 150K
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 145K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 145K
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 138K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 125K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 123K
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert -120K
Spencer “spankybabes” Lawrence - 120K
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 120K
David “Bakes” Baker - 120K
Aditya “intervention” Agarwal - 104K
Brian “snagglepuss” Powell - 101K
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 100K
David “HosniMubarak” Tazbaz - 100K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 96K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 95K
Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 93K
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 90K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 90K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 89K
Thayer Rasmussen - 85K
“BodogAri” Engel - 80K
Daniel “voff” Deveau - 78K
Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 76K
Darren Elias - 75K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 73K
Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 67K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 67K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 66K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 65K
Nachman “thelandlord” Berlin - 60K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 60K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 53K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 51K
Jason “Mkind16″ Laso - 47K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 45K
Michael “martine23″ Martin - 40.5K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 33K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 21K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 20K
Recent eliminations include Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin, Scott “mindwise” Pendergrast and Aaron “gotcha55″ Kanter.
Dreams Dashed or Doubled Up?
by Jill on 07.09.08, 9:47 pm
Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski continued to be very active in the first half of Level 8 and PocketFives caught up to the action at his table as he was raising under the gun to 2.3K. Three players called in position - both the blinds and the button. The flop came T9J and he bet 5K into the pot, getting one other call. When the turn brought the J, Chris fired out 8.5K more and his opponent called again from the small blind position. At the 6 on the river, Chris moved all in for 9.5K more and got a call; he showed down KQ and the other player mucked. Chris doubled and now sits at 55K.
A few tables over, Frank “Round42″ Rusnak (pictured at right) reported that he’s the object of batting practice — one of his tablemates just happens to be Jose Canseco’s ex-wife and baby’s momma, Jessica. The pair were confronting each other as PocketFives watched Jessica reraise his preflop 1.9K bet to 6.8K. She stared him down and he gave her a hard time, but flashed a big smile to PocketFives.
Frank recently took down a decent sized pot when a player under the gun raised to 2.1K, Rusnak called in middle position, as did the player on the button. The flop Q75 and all three players checked. The 7 on the turn prompted the initial raiser to check again and Rusnak bet out 4.7K. The player on the button then reraised to 9.7K and Frank thought momentarily before making the call. Both checked after the K came on the river and Rusnak announced, “I have a pair.” The other player stared at him, waiting for him to turn over his cards. Frank revealed 99, his opponent mucked, and he is now up to 80K.
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania had courteously doubled up several players at his table throughout the day today and recently he finally had the same courtesy extended back to him when he and another player got it all-in on a flop of 952 with Mohsin holding pocket sixes with the six of hearts while his opponent had A-K with the king of hearts. No heart came on the turn or river and Charania doubled up to 49K.
Despite starting the day with a less-than-average stack of 23K, Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert has been on a hot run of cards, elevating his stack all the way up to 123K. Although it would be easy for him to tell PocketFives he’s just been playing above the rim and chipping up, Wolpert said that he’s just been sucking out, including snapping of pocket aces with his pocket tens.
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski (pictured at left) has just been eliminated from the Main Event — and in an ugly fashion at that. We caught up with Bogdanski betting 12K on a board of A43J5 and his opponent moved all in, having Gary covered. Gary leaned back in his chair and said “I can’t fold, I call,” to which the other player replied “You lose.” He flipped over 42 for a straight flush and Gary angrily showed his T8 before heading out of the Amazon Room.
Dan “voff” Deveau avoided disaster just before his table broke in the Brasilia Room. With blinds at 400/800, Deveau raised to 2.3K from under the gun and a player in late position raised to 6K. Deveau asked for a count of his opponent’s stack before making the call with QQ. The board came out T36 and Deveau checked to his opponent, who bet 10K. Deveau quickly folded and the other player showed his AA. Dan is still stitting comfortably with 70K.
Here are some other unofficial chip counts in Level 8:
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 184K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 180K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 175K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 160K
Darren Elias - 155K
David “Bakes” Baker - 155K
Aaron Steury - 140K
Brandon Schaefer - 137K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 135K
Aditya “intervention” Agarwal - 134K
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert - 123K
David “davidp18″ Peters - 111k
Mike “RunScreamin” Herder - 110K
Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde - 110K
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 95K
Thayer Rasmussen - 84K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 80K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 80K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 80K
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 80K
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 75K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 65K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 62K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 61K
Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 58K
“BodogAri” Engel - 57K
Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski - 55K
David “HosniMubarak” Tazbaz - 53K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 49K
Nachman “thelandlord” Berlin - 48.5K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 40K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 40K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 35K
Jason “strassa2″ Strasser - 35k
Bryan Micon - 35K
Ben “BSUChamp” Grice - 33K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 32K
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 30K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 28K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 27K
Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 24.5K
Scott “mindwise” Pendergrast - 23K
Bryan “bparis” Paris - 20.5K
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 17K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 17K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 16K
Ladbrokes team pro Azad Pirooti - 16K
Martin Handed DisGusting Beat
by Brett on 07.09.08, 4:30 pm
Chris “LUHMAN” Martin learned a costly lesson early in Day 2b: Never get your chips in with the best hand against Gus Hansen. Martin, who began the day with just 7,250, moved all in from the cutoff. Hansen considered folding from the button but then decided to make the call with A8 and found out he was way behind Martin’s A9. That is until the 8 came in the door and Martin was unable to improve. His seat has now been filled by Hansen’s cell phone and BlackBerry.
A few Pocketfivers have more than doubled up their short stacks in the first hour of play. Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski won a few pots early and then busted a player with a slightly smaller stack when they played a hand all-in preflop, with Dombrowski’s queens holding up against pocket tens. After starting the day with 13k, Dombrowksi currently sits with 32k.
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski recently scooped a big pot out of a limped hand on his small blind. Bogdanski completed the blind after an under-the-gun limp with the T3 and the big blind checked. A flop of 589 got checked through and Bogdanski led for 1300 when the A peeled on the turn. The big blind raised Bogdanski to 4k and Bogdanski went all-in for an additional 10k and got called. Another ace peeled on the river and Bogdanski’s flush bested his opponents turned pair of aces with a smaller club draw. Bogdanski currently sits with 44k.
Some others we’ve seen hit the rail early were Brian “sbrugby” Townsend and Jeremy” Chipsteela” Menard.
Making ‘Cmoney’
by Jessica on 06.28.08, 1:48 am
Chris ‘cmoney3′ Kline came into Day 2 of the $5K No Limit Hold Em 6-max with only 16K in chips. Chris informed us he came in 95th in chips out of the 96 players who made it to the second day of play and, with the blinds starting at 800/1,600 with a 200 ante, he knew he had his work cut out with him to make it to the money.
Now there are 30 players left in the event, Kline is guaranteed $20,430 and his stack is beginning to grow. Chris nursed his short stack for some time and finally found a good spot to double up. With the blinds at 3K/6K ante 500 a player in early position raised to 16.5K and Kline moved all-in for around 70K total. The other player thought for a minute or so before making a crying call with AT. Chris was in a race situation with 88. The board came K7793 and his pocket eights held and increased his chip stack to nearly 150K.
Other players who failed in their attempts to double up include Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski, who reraised all-in for 70K with 44 after a player under the gun raised. The other player made the call with KJ and, when the board ran out AAJJ6, Dombrowski was eliminated in 34th place.
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut took a big hit to his already dwindling stack when he moved all-in from the cut-off for just shy of 80K. The player in the big blind made the call with TT and Daut was in bad shape with his 88. The cards ran out 733K2 and Ryan was left with only 5K.
Two hands later, Daut was all-in in the big blind for his remaining chips and the same player who held pocket tens earlier raised on the button. The small blind folded and the other player again turned over pocket tens. Daut was in even worse shape the second time around with 39. His hand failed to improve and he was eliminated in 31st place.
Here are some selected chip counts of a few of the remaining players:
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 590K
Steven “CornellFiji” Ware - 420K
Jason Gray - 420K
Shannon Shorr - 187K
Alex Jacob - 135K
Over in the $2K No Limit Hold Em Event, David “ComptonMasta” Barter was on red alert with a short stack when he picked up A-Q in the hijack and shoved it in preflop. One opponent with pocket tens called Barter down, but he managed to flop an ace to double up. Moved recently to a new table, he sat much more comfortably with 21K.
Daniel “voff” Deveau (pictured at right) was sitting pretty with about 65K when we caught up to his table, though he reported he’s been moved four times in the last level. His newest table had more chips, but he was still feeling them out. Under the gun, after a short-stacked player in the big blind raised, Daniel called. The flop came 963 and Daniel bet out, forcing him to make a decision for all his chips. The short-stacked player called and showed 10-9 to Daniel’s 9-2. The turn and river came 64 and was no help to Daniel, who looked up and said “Oops!” before laughing. His stack took the hit and was down to 50K, still double the average.
Meanwhile, Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade won several more small pots over the last level, which he reported has been his strategy all day. In a hand that exemplified this no-showdown policy, he reraised 10K more against a player raising under the gun and one caller. The other players folded and he was up to 35K.
John Wein has also chipped up to healthy 30K, though he previously held a larger stack that he spewed through the following hand: There was a late limper and Wein checked in the big blind. The flop came AQ8 and he held A-T with no hearts. His opponent bet 2.5K after the flop, which Wein called. A blank came on the turn, and his opponent shoved for 13K more. Wein called with his pair of aces, but the A on the river caught up his opponent’s J9 for an ace-high flush. Later on, however, Wein looked down at pocket aces and raised 3K on the button. An early player shoved for 13K and Wein called. He won the hand and caught himself back up to 30K.