WSOP 2008
Cox Loses Prop Bet, Then His Stack
by Crystal on 07.08.08, 5:54 pm
Greg “okstate345″ Cox recently played in a $50 Heads Up sit-n-go tournament online and lost, and since a prop bet was part of the deal between he and the other player, Greg showed up today in a purple bathrobe, pink swim goggles and a blue wide-brimmed sun hat. In one hand where Greg had only 7k left in chips there was a raise and re-raise in front of him and he held pocket queens on the button. Greg decided to fold and was relieved to see the re-raiser show pocket aces. “He’s been a nit so far” Greg said in reference to the player with aces. Another gentleman at the table thought that “nit” was an insult and was shocked Greg said it but after a humorous conversation at the table they decided that “nit” actually wasn’t meant to be an insult in this case and Greg was off the hook.
His stack dwindled down to around 5k and when the player under the gun limped, Greg pushed all in. Everyone else folded but the under the gun player made the call with his 8
8
to find he was way behind Greg’s TT
. The flop came Q76 and Greg’s opponent was drawing slim. The 4 on the turn gave him a few more options and the 5 fell on the river giving the other player an eight-high straight and sending Greg to the rail with a disgusted look on his face.
We caught up to Josh “Squintngo” Goldstein in the Blue section who had just called a bet of 2,500 on flop of J
24. He and one other player both checked the J turn to see the 5 river. His opponent checked to him, and Josh bet out 7,025. After tanking awhile, his opponent made the call and Josh flipped over AJ to take down the pot and increase his stack to 74K.
As tables are broken in the Red section, more and more players are being moved into the orange and blue sections of the Amazon Room, resulting in some stacked tables. We stumbled upon table Orange 12, which boasts a line-up of Dani “Ansky451″ Stern, Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen, and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki. The three players have been very active at their tables and we caught both Rosen and Ansky busting out players and increasing their chip counts in the process.
First, Rosen raised to 1,250 in early position with the blinds at 250/500 ante 50 and a player in middle position made the call. After the flop came A92 Jamie bet 2,250 and the other player quickly called. Rosen checked when the Q came on the turn and the other player bet 5K. Rosen quickly check-raised to 15K total and the other player moved all-in for less than 5K on top of the 15K. Jamie called and turned over AK and the other player revealed 9T. The J on the river was no help to his opponent and Rosen scooped a pot that pushed him up to a 140K chip stack.
A few hands later a shortstacked player raised on the button and Dani Stern reraised out of the big blind. The other player appeared to just call his raise, leaving only 5K behind. He then announced “all-in in the dark” and Stern reminded him that he was not the first to act in the hand. The flop came J73 and Dani appeared to take a quick peek at his hand to check for a club before throwing out a 5K chip. The other player called with AK while Dani held QQ. The turn and river came 6T and the other player was eliminated. Stern now sits with 75K.
Oh, and if the table wasn’t crowded enough as it was, the seat of the player Rosen busted has just been filled by Peter “number1pen” Neff.
One player whose table in the Red section has yet to break is Bobby “gettindeep” Hodson. He informed Pocketfives that he had been getting maximum value out of all of his hands and had worked his starting Day 2 stack of 28K all the way up to 60K. However, he ran into a hand where he got it all in preflop with A-K into his opponent’s pocket aces. The board bricked out and he was knocked down to just below where he started and has 26K.
Now for the good stuff! Chip counts galore!
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 145K
Paul “ComeonPhish” Lieu - 130K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 120K
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 107K
Jason Gray - 90K
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 82K
Tim “TMay420″ West - 73K
Jon “PearlJammer” Turner - 72K
Doug “resilient” Smith - 69K
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 66K
Jordan Morgan - 58K
Louis “MrBeeks” Werman - 56K
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 55K
Paul “beanie” Nobles - 55K
Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano - 53K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 51K
Brendan “moe86″ Mahoney - 48K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 40K
Craig “MrCasino” Gray - 38K
Steve “McNallyville” McNally - 35K
Noah “Exclusive” Boeken - 35K
Terry “Asiandude77″ Eichens - 31K
Faraz “The Toliet-0″ Jaka - 29K
Carter “notashark” Gill - 28K
Aaron Been - 27K
Shaun Deeb - 25K
Rami “arbianight” Boukai - 25K
Justin “looshle” Pechie - 24K
TJ “Doubles00ted” Slifka - 15K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 10K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 7K
Barry Greenstein - 5K
Players eliminated since our last post include Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski, Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee, and Matt “SamENole” Smith.
Beep, Beep: Who’s Got The Keys for the Deeb?
by Crystal on 07.05.08, 2:43 am
First things first: Shaun Deeb lost his phone at the break and needs a ride home. Internet? Are you listening? Shaun asks that someone get ahold of Augie, so he can get home.
Table #5 in the Orange section of the Amazon room is quite entertaining to watch, primarily because of the presence of 3 PocketFivers, Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor, Steve “gboro780″ Gross (pictured at right), and Greg “okstate345″ Cox. When one of our reporters was standing near the table, Greg said that he didn’t know who Stuart was until Steve told him that his screenname was “zpaceman.” “You’re ‘zpaceman’? No way! I’ve read your blogs!” Greg said.
Ironically, Greg and Stuart had been playfully ribbing each other before Greg knew who Stuart was. In one hand, Stuart raised and was re-raised by another player at the table. Stuart agonized for a bit before folding his A-Q face up. Stuart said, “That guy hasn’t three-bet me all day. If it was him (pointing to Greg), I’m going to four-bet him!” The table chuckled and Greg said that he folded A-J in the hand. Stuart claims he thought the player who re-raised had A-K. “I only folded because it was off-suit,” Stuart said with a smile. Meanwhile, Steve Zolotow, also at the table gave all the players a ribbing and proceeded to discuss the merits of being on FullTilt’s bankroll. Must Be Nice.
Tom “SBRounder” West was continuing to do well. Before his table in the Orange section broke, he knocked out a short-stacked player. Tom held the AQ to the all-in player’s 33. The board ran out 776J2 to give Tom a flush and knock out the short stack. The next hand, Tom raised preflop and everyone folded. He showed pocket aces just before the table was given new seat assignments. Tom is obviously hoping his good luck continues at his new table in the Blue section!
After waiting patiently over the last couple of levels with a very short stack, Stu “thedonator” Paterson shoved all-in preflop against another very short-stacked big blind. Stu flipped over pocket aces to the big blind’s K6 and the board ran out QJ7TK. Stu did manage to take down the miniscule pot, but is still looking to make some moves and chip up.
Another PocketFiver chipping up in the last level was Bobby “Gettin Deep” Hodson, who took down a nice-sized pot with A-K suited and flopped top pair. His hand managed to hold and his stack increased to 20.5K.
Not having quite as much luck during the 4th level was Blair Rodman. On a flop of 5-6-7 (with two clubs) Blair bet 800 and was called by his opponent. The Q fell on the turn and Blair bet 2K, but the other player then raised to 6K. Blair shoved the rest of his stack in and was called by the other player who held pocket aces. Blair showed the KQ for a pair of queens and a flush draw, but the river was a brick and Blair was sent to the rail.
Zpaceman Lifts Off
by Jill on 07.04.08, 9:21 pm
On Orange Table 10, PocketFives caught up with Marco “KILL-BILL” Liesy (pictured at right) heads-up in a hand with Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold. On a board that read A433, Marco bet out 3,450 as he was first to act, leaving 23K behind. Todd reraised him to 9K and Marco went to the tank for a long time before finally deciding to fold with a bemused look on his face. Todd increased his stack to 36K while Marco fell to 24K.
A few tables over at Orange 8, action was getting more exciting as it filled up with PocketFivers. Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor was quite active over the last level, apparently wanting to mix things up a bit since his last level was slow. He sat at the table with another PocketFiver, Greg “okstate345″ Cox, who guarded a 26K stack.
When we caught up with the table, Stuart was involved in a hand with two other players on a flop of J76. Stuart bet out 750 after, but was reraised to 2K by the player on his left. Stuart called and the 8 dropped on the turn. He checked, his opponent bet out 3K, and Stuart took a long time to rake his opponent over the coals while he made his decision. Eventually, Stuart folded the hand with a face-up jack and his opponent also showed a jack. Stuart was left with 34K to question what other card was in the muck as Steve “gboro780″ Gross sat down at the table two seats away.
Shortly afterward, Stuart (pictured at left) led out with a preflop bet of 950, which Steve called. The rest of the table folded the action back around and the flop came AAK. Again, Stuart began the action with a 1,250 bet. After thinking awhile, Steve folded TT face up and was left with a short stack of 14K.
The next hand, Stuart limped in early position with one other player and the small blind completed. The big blind checked his option and the flop came AQ7. The blinds checked and Stuart bet out 600, which was immediately flat-called by the player on his left. The small blind called, the big blind folded and the 2 fell on the turn. The small blind checked, Stuart bet out 1,200 and the limper flat-called. Action returned to the small blind, who tossed his cards in the muck before a 4 came on the river. After shaking his head and musing to himself, Stuart bet out 3,250, taunting his opponent, “If I bet, you will pay me!” Sure enough, after thinking quite awhile, his opponent called and Stuart flipped over pocket sevens for a flopped set. He took down the pot and increased his stack to 42K.
Steve managed to get a few chips back soon after when he saw a flop of KT5. He bet out 1,300 against the button, who called; the 2 hit the turn and both Steve and his opponent checked. The 9 on the river inspired a bet of 2,250 from Steve and his opponent insta-called him, but mucked his hand against Steve’s KT for top two pair. Steve took down the pot and increased his to nearly 20K.
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski made a move in the past hour but couldn’t get paid off on what looked to be a big hand. With the blinds at 150/300, a player raised under the gun to 900 and Sluzinski called in the cutoff. The flop was A86 and the other player led out for 1,100. Sluzinski raised all in for 7,425 more. His opponent contemplated a call before letting it go and Sluzinski is now at 11K.
Paul “ComeOnPhish” Lieu’s (pictured below) game has apparently not changed on the live circuit. His hyper-aggressive style helped him chip up to 35K through Level 3 but he just took a small hit to his stack. In a blind vs. blind confrontation, Lieu bet 600 on a T73 board and the big blind called. The 8 fell on the turn and Lieu bet 2,500 only to get reraised to 7,000 by his opponent. Lieu thought for close to five minutes, swirling a green chip with his right hand before folding a leaving himself with 30K.
Here are some updated unofficial chip counts:
Mike “SirWatts” Watson - 66K
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 45K
Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold - 37.5K
Paul “ComeOnPhish” Lieu - 31.5K
Mike “Schneids” Schneider - 30K
Blair Rodman - 29.5K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 28K
Greg “okstate345″ Cox - 26K
Shaun Deeb - 25.5K
Marco “KILL-BILL” Liesy - 24K
Theo “pitrounder” Tran - 23K
Matt “SameENole” Smith - 21K
Steve “gboro780″ Gross - 20K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 19K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 17K
Todd “DanDruff” Witteles - 16K
Brian “Wing-n-prayer” Reingold - 13.5K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 12K
Tim “EightLarge” Vansant - 11K
Yellowsub Refuses to Sink
by Jill on 06.15.08, 4:32 am
It’s the end of Day 1 in Event #27, the $1.5k No-Limit Hold’em tournament, and the 2,706-player field has been whittled down to a mere 224. Unfortunately, after the money bubble burst we had a couple of P5 casualties.
After nursing his short stack through the bubble, Mike “MoneyMike104″ Prepelica got all his money in with pocket fours against another player’s A-9. The ace came on the flop and was enough to send Mike to the rail.
Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (pictured at left) got all his money in preflop along with 2 other players, only to find that his 88 was doubly dominated by his opponents’ 99 and JJ. The board ran out 763TK and Phil was sent packing just before play ended for the evening.
Play will resume tomorrow at 2PM PST with many notable players returning. The lineup includes Court Harrington, Greg “OKState345″ Cox, Jason Gray, Billy Westom, and Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan.
The $5K Pot-Limit Omaha tournament continued to excite the huge crowd of spectators trying to catch a glimpse of all the stars in the Amazon room. PocketFives caught up with Tom “durrrr” Dwan as he was pulling his chips back in after an all-in next to Andy Bloch; his stack grew to a healthy 200K.
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams (pictured at right), however, sat at a table where Phil Hellmuth was beating up on his blinds. In the big blind, Jeff raised and met a call from Hellmuth. The flop came 74K and both checked. The 8 came on the turn, Jeff checked, Hellmuth bet 5K and Jeff called. The river came 2, Jeff checked once again, and Hellmuth raised to 14K. After taking a long time to think, Jeff called and mucks; he was visibly frustrated after the hand and commentary from Hellmuth.
Later, Jeff raised under the gun and met a call once again from Hellmuth. The flop came A26. Jeff checked, Hellmuth bet 4K and Jeff laid it down. To compensate for his chip loss, Jeff bullied the short stack at the table on a flop of 6JT with 15K already in the pot. The short stack checked and Jeff raised him for 23K more, forcing him to make a decision for his tournament life. After a long time in the tank, the short stack folded and Jeff chipped up again. Later, however, Hellmuth was once again beating up on Jeff’s small blind, forcing a fold and reducing his stack to 70K. PocketFives continued to rail Jeff and support him in the good fight; we will update on his situation as it develops.
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements was eliminated from the tournament after being very short-stacked for quite awhile; he left the Amazon room after a disappointing run at making yet another Omaha final table.