WSOP 2008
Final 6 Set
by Court on 04.24.08, 11:33 pm
With the elimination of Amir Vahedi in 7th place the televised final table participants are now set. Gus Hansen will go into the final table holding the chip lead, with Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll (right) and David Chiu not far behind.
Here are the full chip counts:
Gus Hansen - 8,570,000
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 6,670,000
David Chiu - 6,050,00
John Roveto - 2,720,000
Tommy Le - 1,950,000
Jeff King - 1,305,000
Down to 10
by Court on 04.24.08, 7:30 pm
After 2 quick eliminations play slowed with 15 players remaining. The stall was ended when Nick Binger (right) was eliminated by Gus Hansen. Binger was all in preflop with AQ against Hansen’s suited A3 and by the time the river was out Gus had made a flush to bust Binger in 15th place for $131,910.
After Binger’s elimination the next few bust outs came quickly with David Tran and Robert Mizrachi also being knocked out. Hansen did the dirty work against Tran, picking up pocket aces and having them hold up against Tran’s flopped pair to send David home in 14th place.
Mike Gracz was able to bust a shortstacked Mizrachi when Robert moved in and Gracz called. Gracz had pocket jacks and they held strong against Mizrachi’s A8. The victory for Gracz was short lived though. Not too long later he was all in against Gus Hansen with a flop set against the Danes flush draw. Blank on the turn but the T
on the river completed the club flush for Gus and busted Gracz in 11th place.
In between the Mizrachi and Gracz eliminations Bryan Devonshire (left) was busted in 12th place. Bryan was all in with AQ against David Chiu with pocket queens. Unlike Gus, the strategy of getting it in behind and getting there didn’t work out for Bryan and his 12th place finish brought the same payday of $131,910 that went to all finishers between 11th and 15th.
The remaining 10 players, including Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll are all now at the same table and playing down to the final 6.
Carroll Bluffs, Chiu Gets Lucky
by Court on 04.24.08, 4:27 pm
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll (right) was able to grab a pot off of Tommy Le with a river bet on a board of K
Q98T
. Cory had checked his option from the big blind after Le completed from the small blind (blinds 15k / 30k). On the flop Le had check called a 45k bet from Carroll and both players checked the turn. With the river Le again checked and Cory bet 240k. The time on the clock ran out and players were on break, but Le stayed in thought for a long time before finally folding, showing a king as he did so. Cory showed the 75 as he stacked chips before heading out for break.
The chip lead has been held by Amir Vahedi so far today, but Gus Hansen was only 2 cards away from climbing back to the top of the chips. On a J6
4 flop David Chiu bet 171k into a pot that Gus had raised preflop and both David Tran and Chiu had both called. Gus said he was going to raise half of Chiu’s remaining stack and after giving it a rough count he decided that 355k was close enough.
Chiu (left) then moved all in and Gus called. Hansen showed the AJ and the look on Chiu’s face was a clear indicator he was in bad shape. His KJ was left drawing to three outs but the turn was reminiscent of what Gus did to eliminate Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby earlier in the tournament. The K peeled off and Gus was then the one drawing to 3 outs. His ace didn’t come in and he saw a pot of around 2 million chips heading the other direction.
Early eliminations included Jeff Shulman in 17th place and Andy Black in 16th. Black took a particularly bad beat at the hands of Robert Mizrachi. They were all in preflop with Black’s aces against Mizrachi’s J-9. The turn gave Mizrachi a gutshot draw to a straight but also gave Black the heart flush draw killing one of Robert’s outs. The 8 hit on the river making the straight for Robert and drawing a groan from many of the onlookers.