WSOP 2008
Crain Event
by Jessica on 06.30.08, 5:32 am
After a marathon day of hold ‘em yesterday, Eric “jakz101″ Crain (pictured below) played another grueling day of cards today in the $1.5K HORSE event. Eric promised Pocket Fives he was either going to end the day as the chip leader or out. Looks like it is going to be the latter. After playing virtually every hand for the last level of play, Eric got the last of his chips in the middle during a 3 way Razz hand showing Q-3-3. After 7th was dealt out, Crain showed A-2-3-4-10, but his opponent had him bested with A-5-6-7-8. Eric was in high spirits though and left with a smile on his face and informing us he will be taking a much deserved day off tomorrow.
As play was wrapping up, we spotted the following unofficial chip counts of a few players:
Michael Binger - 18K
Doug “Resilient” Smith - 13K
Alex Jacob - 12K
“Bodog” Ari Engel - 9K
Bart Hansen - 7K
Allen Cunningham - 6K
Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 5K
Shannon Shorr - 4K
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 1K
The other HORSE Event, the $50K World Championship, continued 3-handed play. Michael DeMichele currently maintains his chip lead with 7 million chips, but Erick Lindgren has worked his way back from the short stack and is now second in chips with 4.6 million. Scotty Nguyen is the shortest stack with 3.4 million.
Crain Wrecks
by Jessica on 06.29.08, 6:47 am
After losing chips in several confrontations with Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, Eric “jakz101″ Crain was left shortstacked with only around 175K with the blinds at 12K/24K ante 3K. The player to Eric’s right was eliminated on the previous hand, resulting in a dead small blind and Eric in the big blind. Knowing his opponents would likely take advantage of the opportunity to pick on the short stack, Eric attempted to remind his tablemates how much fun he’s been and how much they would miss him if he was eliminated. At one point, Eric jokingly said, “why’s everybody always picking on me? I’m looking at you there in the 2 seat.” The man in the 2 seat? None other than Eric’s newfound nemesis, Marco Johnson.
Johnson opted to fold, but the player on the button raised to 65K and Eric moved all in for his remaining 175K. The other player thought briefly before making the call with A
3 and Crain was in better shape than he expected with his 5
5
. However, after the flop came A-Q-Q, Eric was drawing thin and when the turn and river were no help to him, he was eliminated in 13th place, earning $35,843.
11 players remain and Johnson continues to hold the chip lead as play continues. They will still need to lose two more players tonight before play concludes.
Play has concluded for the day in the $50K HORSE event and the final table is set. Erick Lindgren is currently the chip leader with Scotty Nguyen hot on his heels. Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed, and Lyle Berman will also be duking it out for the coveted bracelet tomorrow starting at 3pm.
Matusow Wins Third Bracelet
by AdamJ on 06.12.08, 3:16 pm
In a field with 85 players, mostly comprised of well known pro’s, Mike Matusow emerged as the champion in the deuce-to-seven draw lowball tournament.
The win gives Matusow his third WSOP bracelet, which is sure to be a memorable given most of his esteemed peers constituted most of the competition. The deuce-to-seven final table read like a who’s who of poker with Tony Guoga, Tom Schneider, Barry Greenstein, Erick Lindgren, David Benyamine, and Jeff Lisandro.
The 2k NL WSOP Event #23 kicks off today at noon and there are already 1,282 entrants twelve minutes into the first level. Players will continue to file in late until registration closes, ballooning that total to an even higher mark.
Singer and Lindgren Take Home Bracelets, Event 7 in the Money
by Crystal on 06.05.08, 4:06 am
David Singer is the winner of event 3 the $1.5k PLHE event after a grueling heads-up match with Jacobo Fernandez. On the final hand Jacobo flopped two pair but all the money didn’t go in until the turn when Singer hit a straight. Jacobo’s two pair didn’t fill and Singer took down the $214,131 first place prize money and bracelet.
As for event 4, the $5k MHE, Erick Lindgren just triumphed over Justin Bonomo in a manner similar to how the PLHE tourney ended. The money was all in on the river with Bonomo holding two pair and Lindgren a straight. Lindgren wins his first WSOP bracelet as well as $374,505.
In event 7, the $2k NLHE, the bubble broke right at the end of play for the day ensuring at least a $3,476 payday for all players returning tomorrow. Amongst those players is P5er Phil “uscphildo” Collins (pictured right) who ends the day with 70k in chips. He claims “I would have 140k if I was actually catching cards!” This seemed to be the case in a hand where the board came J
6535 and his opponent tabled the AA. Phil mucked his hand and later said he had pocket tens and even considered folding them preflop. He lost around 25k in the hand but is still poised to do well in day 2. Play will resume at 2 pm Thursday afternoon where they will play from 152 players down to 9.