WSOP 2008
Six-Handed Players Making Moves
by Crystal on 06.26.08, 7:53 pm
There are many players making moves in event #46, the $5k NLHE six-handed event. Glen “choron” Chorny was trying to get his short stack moving in the right direction when he raised to 600 preflop with the blinds at 100/200 until an opponent re-raised to 2.4k. Chorny (pictured left) looked disgusted and after thinking for a minute he mucked his cards, showing the A
. His opponent said “That’s why I didn’t want to see the flop” as he flipped over his pocket kings and raked in the pot. Chorny is sitting with half his original stack so we expect to see him making more moves as the blinds increase.
Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer bet out with the board showing T
5
3 and his opponent raised. After thinking for a minute O’Dwyer reraised enough to put him all in and the other player did indeed make the call with the KT
only to find that O’Dwyer held the AA and was ahead in the hand. The turn and river came with the Q and 6 and O’Dwyer added to his stack as the other player exited the tournament.
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert’s luck wasn’t quite as good. We caught up with the action on the river with the board reading T73TK and Wolpert making a bet of 850 into the small pot. He was called by his opponent and Wolpert appeared reluctant to flip over his hand. When he did he showed the AJ for ace high which had been good until the river, as his opponent held the KQ for a pair of kings which was enough to scoop the pot.
Players are just coming back from their second break of the day and the blinds will be 150/300 with a 25 ante when they return. Some unoffical chip counts of notable players left in the field are listed below.
Hevad “RainKhan” Khan - 35k
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 32k
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 32k
Alex Jacob - 25k
Shannon Shorr - 19k
Gavin Griffin - 19k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis -19k
Amit “amak316″ Makhija -17k
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista (pictured right)- 13k
Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan - 12k
Anna Wroblewski - 12k
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 11k
Players that have been eliminated from the tournament so far include Joe Sebok, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little, Carter “devinr12″ Gill, Rolf Slotboom, Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet, and Issac Haxton.
The Worst Hand in Omaha?
by Crystal on 06.13.08, 1:24 am
In Event #24 the $2.5k PL HE/O tournament the action has been pretty lively so far with over half of the 457 player field already out the door. Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (pictured right) seemed a little reluctant to flip over his cards at the showdown of a PLO hand. After the board ran out KJ3Q8 with both Brent and a single opponent checking every street, Brent said “I think I might have the worst hand in Omaha! I’ve got three of them!” as he turned over his AAAJ. Surprisingly in this case the “worst hand” was good enough because his opponent mucked and Brent took the small pot with a pair of aces. After the hand Brent said “Well, at least one of them was suited!”
The players in the PL HE/O tourney are down the hall from the Amazon room in the Brazillia room. WSOP Media Director Nolan Dalla called today’s use of the room a “soft opening” because it wasn’t scheduled to be used until tomorrow. He said that the room will be helpful in keeping cash games running even when tournament overflow fills the Amazon room and other adjacent rooms.
Carter “devinr12″ Gill (pictured left) got involved in a large pot during the PLO rotation at his table. After numerous preflop raises, 5 players remained to see the flop with 2 of them already all in. The flop came T82 and Gill, first to act, said “I’m all in, well, I bet the pot.” Gill’s bet was enough to put the remaining two players all in and after agonizing for a bit one called and the other folded. With 3 all ins the board was run out with the 5 and the 2. Gill held the QT84 for two pair tens and eights, the player who called all in on the flop held the KT93 for a pair of tens, one of the preflop all ins held the QJJ7 for jacks and deuces which looked like it might be good until the other preflop all in across the table showed the KK84 for kings and deuces. Gill took the small side pot with his two pair but the kings and deuces hand took main pot. Considering there were straight and flush draws after the flop, it always seems a little absurd when two pair ends up winning a hand of Omaha!
Players down the hall in the Amazon room are breathing a sigh of relief as the bubble of the $3k HORSE tournament, event #22 has now burst. Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul and another player were battling to knock out a player who was all in during a stud h/l hand and when all the cards were dealt out the all in player held only a pair of jacks. Saul had that beaten with pair of kings but lost the hand to the 3rd player’s pair of aces which officially knocked out the all in player. Even though Saul lost around 20k in chips in the hand, he is now guaranteed at least $5,141 and still has a nice sized stack around 84k.
James “mig.com” Mackey has also made the money with around 95k in his stack as well as Eric “EFro” Froehlich who has about 20k.
Greenstein and Harrington Double
by AdamJ on 06.12.08, 10:56 pm
In a hand that created a lot of buzz from players standing around the Amazon room, Barry Greenstein doubled up in a huge pot against Men “The Master” Nguyen with Queen high! About twenty minutes before the dinner break Barry Greenstein opened to 1200 on the button in the 200-400-50 level. Nguyen reraised to to 3200 and Greenstein called. On a flop of 432, Nguyen bet 4k and Greenstein raised all-in for 14k more. Nguyen called having Greenstein covered and revealed the T5, trailing Greenstein’s Q5. Neither player improved and Greenstein’s stack balloooned to 44k.
P5er Court Harrington’s (pictured at right) stack has been fluctuating all day, dipping as low as 1700 at one point. Harrington has been catching a flurry of hands and recently doubled up to 24k minutes before the dinner break. Harrington reraised a 1200 early position raise to 3300 from late position. Harrington’s opponent called having Harrington’s 8500 behind covered. On a JT4 flop, Harrington bet 3500 and got check raised all-in by his opponent for his remaining 5k. Harrington called instantly and his KK was way ahead of his opponents 99. The board ran true for Harrington doubling him up to 24k.
The money bubble burst in the $5K NLHE and 55 players are still in the running to win the coveted bracelet. One such player is Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis (pictured at left), who has had an up and down kind of day. He came into Day 2 as the chip leader at his table, but after losing a couple of crucial hands early on, he was left relatively short stacked with 30K in chips. He managed to double up when his A-Q won a coinflip against Blake “BallaB13″ Cahail’s pocket 7s and he has now worked his way up to 90K. With blinds at 2K/4K, Alex is not in bad shape and seemed confident about his chances to make the final table. Other players still in the event include Adam “Roothlus” Levy, Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman, Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaughbaugh, and Tony “Bond18″ Dunst.
Over in the Brasilia Room the $2.5K PL HE/O players appeared to have a go big or go home approach to the event. Some, like Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich, Jamie “The New” Robbins, and Jeff “yellowsub” Williams made quick exits while others, like Carter “devinr12″ Gill and Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi got off to fast starts. Gill already has 13K and Mizzi is just shy of the 10K marker.
The other Omaha event, the $1.5K PLO, has come to an end and Vanessa Selbst has won her first WSOP bracelet. After a lenghty heads-up match in which her opponent took to blind raising and re-potting hands, she emerged victorious and will be taking home $227,965.
$2K NL and $10K Mixed Final Tables Set for Today
by Brett on 06.06.08, 3:10 pm
Events #7 and 8 will conclude this evening and feature a handful of recognizeable online players. Carter “devinr12″ Gill is 4/9 in the $2K NL event, sitting with 650K chips at a star-studded final table that includes Theo Tran (1.9 million), Alex Bolotin (345K) and JC Tran (273K). The $10K Mixed event final table is headlined by James “mig.com” Mackey , Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Tony “tongni” Rivera. Mackey is 2nd in chips behind Matt Glantz.
Meanwhile, $5K NL Shootout kicks off the day at 12:00 PT and the $1.5 NL short-handed resumes at 2:00 PM. P5ers still alive in the short-handed event are Tom “titantom32″ Braband (83K), Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaughbaugh (72K), Antuan “bigboybunk” Bunkley (65K), Ben “bfineman” Fineman (52K), Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter (38K, pictured left) and Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (26K). Seventy-one of the original 1,236 players are left in the field.
Good luck to all P5ers today!