WSOP 2008
Stud Players in the Money
by Crystal on 06.27.08, 10:43 pm
The bubble burst in event #47, the $1.5k Stud h/l and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $2,450. Brett “Gank” Jungblut and Craig “MrCasino” Gray have both survived the day so far. Brett currently has around 18k while Craig has been hovering around the 12k mark for a majority of the day. Phil Hellmuth has made his 66th WSOP cash in this event and Men “The Master” Nguyen has now cashed in 61 WSOP events.
Many notable players are still alive in the $5k NLHE six-handed event with the field down to 47. Steven “Cornell Fiji” Ware went on a killer run after the bubble burst. He started play after the bubble with 35k in chips and an hour later held over 350k. PocketFives asked Ware if he had proposed marriage to Frank (the dealer who dealt him all those monster hands) and Ware laughed and said he probably should have.
Players who have been knocked out recently include Glen “choron” Chorny (69th, $8,323), Mike “inissint” Glasser (66th, $9,080), Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier (51st, $10,972), and Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (49th, $10,972). Below are the unoffical chip counts of the remaining players.
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured right)- 470k
Steven “Cornell Fiji” Ware - 370k
Jason Gray - 210k
Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski - 200k
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 170k
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 150k
Shannon Shorr - 130k
Alex Jacob - 50k
Sweating the Bubble
by Crystal on 06.27.08, 5:59 pm
Players in the $5k NLHE six-handed tournament are all carefully watching the tournament clock as the player count slowly drops. Play started with 96 players and they are now down to 79 players, just 1 shy of the money.
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista was involved in a couple big hands. First a player raised to 4.2k and Chad (pictured left) re-raised to 18k total. After contemplating for quite awhile the other player moved all in and Chad made the call with his A
2. His opponent held the 4
4
and Chad commented that he was baffled as to how the other player could make such a big move with that hand after facing a re-raise. The board ran out KTT53 and the pocket fours held and Chad’s stack was reduced to around 30k.
On the very next hand, Chad open-shoved all in only to have a player behind him with more chips move all in as well. Chad held the 8
8 against the other players AK so it was off to the races as the board came down KT953 and Chad was eliminated just 11 places shy of the money.
Mike “inissint” Glasser had been short stacked since the beginning of play today and he got all the money in preflop with QT but was way behind his opponents AT. The flop came 832 and Glasser called for another club to come on the turn which could give him outs to a chop, but instead the Q fell putting him in the lead. The river was the J and Glasser doubled to around 75k.
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar was trying to double up at his table as well. After another player raised Jon pushed all in for a total of 38k. His opponent decided to fold so Jon lived to see another hand and told PocketFives to put “Choo Choo” in the update with a picture of Thomas the Tank Engine. We’re not quite sure what that means, but we figured we would post it for him anyway.
The bubble will burst soon and we still have quite a few players left looking to make the money including Glen “choron” Chorny, Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski, Ryan Daut, Shannon Shorr, Jason Gray, Steve “Cornell Fiji” Ware, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier, and Alex Jacob.
Feelin’ Good
by Crystal on 06.27.08, 3:16 pm
James Brown’s “I Feel Good” was playing over the loudspeakers in the Amazon room before play began in today’s $2k NLHE event #48. Players seemed anxious to get started today in what will likely be another exciting and fast moving tournament.
The tournament clock is already showing 2,159 entrants into this event which has surpassed last years total number of entrants into this event (2,038) and will likely increase even more before late registration ends. There are a large number of notable online players hitting the felt once again today and we’re looking forward to seeing them build some monster stacks as the day progresses.
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured left) and the other eight players at the final table of event #44, the $1k NLHE w/rebuys, will begin play at 2 pm today with Freeman looking to regain the chip lead he lost yesterday.
Also starting at 2 pm today is day 2 of the $5k NLHE six-handed event #46 where players such as Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Shannon Shorr, Glen “choron” Chorny, Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier, and Jason Gray will be trying to run deep and make the money. 96 players will begin play today but only 78 will make the money.
Lots of action here at the Rio today and we’ll keep you informed about everything going on as the day progresses!
Short-Handed Event Calls It a Night
by AdamJ on 06.27.08, 4:18 am
During the last level of play in the $5K No Limit Hold Em 6-max event, several players found themselves either doubling up or going home. Glen “choron” Chorny (pictured at left) found himself in the former category when he got it all-in against a slightly smaller stack with QQ versus the other player’s AK. The board came out 75439 and Chorny added an additional 30K to his chip count, putting him over the 70K mark.
Some of the players who fell into the “go home” category include Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, who got his remaining 24K all-in in a coin flip situation and failed to win his race. Jason “JCarver” Somerville, who we last repoted was battling a short stack, had worked his way back up to 32K. However, his pocket kings failed to hold against his opponent’s pocket nines and he headed home about an hour before play ended.
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham had about 50K in his stack when, with the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 100, it folded around to the player in the small blind, who raised to 3.2K. Matt made the call from the big blind and the two saw a flop of 932. The small blind bet out 4.5K and Graham made the call. The turn came the 9 and Graham’s opponent bet 12K. Matt then moved all-in for his remaining 40K or so and the other player quickly made the call with 9T. After he saw his opponent’s holdings, Graham mucked his hand and headed for the rail.
Steve “Cornell Fiji” Ware made it to Day 2 of play, but he has significantly less chips than he did when we last checked in with him. Ware was relocated to a table that boasted an impressive line-up of Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Shannon Shorr. Ware has doubled up several of his opponents including a big hand where Grospellier held pocket aces and got it all-in against Steve who had top pair on a queen-high flop. As play concluded, Ware had 40K left in his stack.
Here are our some unofficial chip counts as play wrapped up:
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 175K
Shannon Shorr (pictured at right) - 154K
Alex Jacob - 92K
Glen “choron” Chorny - 76K
Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier - 54K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista - 54K
Jason Gray - 52K
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 44K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 40K
Top of the Chip Counts or Bust!
by Crystal on 06.26.08, 10:11 pm
With nearly 2/3 of the field already eliminated from event #46, the $5k NLHE six-handed tournament, we’ve seen a lot of action packed hands with both good and bad outcomes for some notable players.
Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured right) got all his chips in on a flop of 864 and thought his KK was good until his opponent flipped up the 66 for a set. The turn and river didn’t bring any kings and Levy was sent to the rail.
Kings didn’t treat Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi very well either, but only because he wasn’t the one holding them. Sorel was all in preflop holding 77 to his opponents KK and when the board ran out 4223A Sorel’s day came to an end.
Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan had been building his stack up as the day progressed and we caught him in a hand with the board reading KJJT5. Ryan (pictured left) bet 2.8k into the 5k pot on the river and his opponent raised enough to put Ryan all in. Ryan said “I have a boat, I call,” but before he could flip over his cards his opponent showed the KJ for a flopped full house. Ryan showed his TT for a turned smaller full house and quietly left the table.
On the more positive side of things, Glen “choron” Chorny had been looking for an opportunity to double and he got all his chips in with KQ against an opponent holding an ace and an unknown card. The flop came with a king to put Chorny in the lead and it was enough to double his small stack.
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut had been sitting on a short stack as well and was facing a 1.5k bet from another player on a flop of T62. Daut thought for a little while before pushing his last 3.5k into the pot and the other player made the call. Daut showed AA to his opponents JT and when the turn and river brought the 2 and 2 Daut doubled almost back to his starting stack.
There are 287 players remaining in the field and they are now on a 90 minute dinner break. Only 78 will make the money with the 1st place finisher taking home an impressive $911,830 and the gold bracelet.
Day 2 action of the $50k HORSE tournament has been going on for a few hours now and Tom “durrrr” Dwan (pictured right) is sitting near the top of the chip counts with 280k. James “mig.com” Mackey and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond are both doing well with 195k and 170k. After starting the day with 41k, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko has chipped up to 111k while Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo hasn’t been able to make much progress and currently has 74k. Brian “tsarrast” Rast’s stack has been slipping all day as he has fallen to only 17k of the 132k he started the day with and he will be looking to make a move soon.