WSOP 2008
Get Your Fricke On
by Jill on 06.16.08, 12:10 am
As Events #29 and #30 got comfortable and settled into their later rounds, PocketFives caught up with the action, which was jam-packed full of fantastic online players. In Event #29, the $3K No-Limit Hold’em tournament, Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke sat atop the pack with 90K in chips; he continued to snatch up more by bullying the blinds. Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers and Stu “TheDonator” Patterson cleaned up their table competition too, each guarding 55K in chips.
Another table to watch is Blue #11. Matt “Allinat420″ Stout sat in the first seat, joined by Joshua “pbdrunks” VanDuyn, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Kathy Liebert and others. As we watched this action-pakced table, ElkY took down a decent pot when he rivered trip-5s, holding A-5 in his hand. He increased his stack to 16K. One recent elimination of note was Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, who reported to PocketFives that his A-Q refused to hold up to his opponent’s A-J.
Chip stacks from the recent round are as follows:
Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke - 90K
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 58K
Stu “TheDonator” Patterson - 50K
Matt “Allinat420″ Stout - 42K
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert - 40K
Keith “KoolKeith13″ - 32K
Andrew “TiltyJoker” Lee - 25K
Craig “MrCasino” Gray - 18K
Bernard “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured at right) - 16K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 12K
Shaun Deeb - 8K
Joshua “pbdrunks” VanDuyn - 6K
Meanwhile, in Event #30, the $10K Limit Hold’em Championship, online players were making their presence known as well. Brock “t_soprano” Parker was sitting comfortably with 30K in chips next to Justin Bonomo, who held 16K. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi was getting a massage while he played with his 20K in chips, sitting two seats from Eric “EFro” Froelich who maintained at 17K stack as well. Others still alive in the star-studded tournament include Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Anna Wroblewski, and Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson.
The battle for the bracelet continued in Event #28’s Omaha contest, which recently returned from dinner break. Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis fought on with average-sized chipstacks, while Cole “cts” South was in deep trouble with only 80K left.