WSOP 2008
36 Left in $2K Event
by Jessica on 06.29.08, 1:26 am
Shortly before the most recent 20 minute break Blake “BallaB13″ Cahail (pictured at left) picked up a big pot when he eliminated another player. The other player bet the flop of K
Q
6 and Blake made the call. When the Q
came on the turn, the other player moved all-in for the remainder of his stack and Cahail quickly made the call with K
K. The other player held AK and the meaningless 3 on the river meant Cahail’s stack built back up to 350k.
After players returned from their most recent twenty minute break, several players made ascents up the chip counts while others, like David “DavidP18″ Peters, headed for the door. A short stacked Jose “head2782″ Severino moved all-in from the cut off and the player on the button quickly moved all-in behind him. The players in the blinds folded and the two players turned up their hands. Jose showed KQ while his opponent held AK. The other player made a flush as the board came J8392 and Severino was eliminated.
Ibuki “bukithepro” Fukui was eliminated by Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson when Johnson raised in late position and Fukui reraised all-in for a little over 100K total. Marco made the call with pocket jacks, which held against Fukui’s A-10. After the hand Marco had 340K.
Here are our most recent chip counts:
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 440K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 365K
Adam “akat11″ Katz - 295K
Dan “Wretchy” Martin - 220K
The $50K HORSE is down to its final 13 players and after beginning the day at the top of the leaderbaord, both Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu are now two of the shorter stacks remaining in play. Currently, Huck Seed is the chip leader with 5 more players to lose before play concludes for the night.
Finally, here are some notable chip counts in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #49 with the blinds at 400-800-100 with 350 left and the average stack at 23k:
Greg “FBT” Mueller - 65k
John Murphy - 52k
Hevad Khan - 42k
David Pham - 30k
Andy Black - 27k
Chris “sooooted” Vaughn - 27k
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 23k
Jeff Madsen - 21k
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 12k
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 7k
Katz’s “Moment of Truth”
by Crystal on 06.28.08, 9:52 pm
The 70 remaining players in the $2k NLHE tournament are now on dinner break but there was a lot of exciting action before the break began.
Adam “akat11″ Katz was involved in a huge hand with Howard Schultz, the executive producer of the television show “The Moment of Truth,” and another player. Schultz pushed all in for 64k, the other player called, and Katz then announced he was all in as well. The other player, who had less chips than Katz, made the call and they flipped over the cards.
Katz: KK
Schultz: AK
Other player: QQ
The board ran out J65K7 and Katz’s set of kings knocked out two players and increased his stack to around 340k. As Katz scooped the monster pot he said “Thanks Erin. Appreciate it.” to his massuse whose obviously still bringing Katz a little luck.
Also at the same table as Katz are Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured above) and Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade which has made for some humorous banter between hands. The players weren’t sure when the dinner break was so Levy called out “Floor! We need a ruling on the dinner break!” One of the floor staff came over and said “The break is in 13 minutes and 56 seconds.” Levy replied with “So, at the end of this level?” and the floor jokingly said “Yes. Delay at all and I’ll give you a penalty. I’m in a penalty mood today” which made the players laugh as they got back to focusing on their cards rather than their stomachs.
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson was involved in a big hand right before the break when he and another player with a similar size stack got all the chips in preflop. Marco held the AK against the other players 88. The flop came with a king to put Marco in the lead and the other player wasn’t able to catch back up. When the chips were counted Marco had the other player covered by a small amount so he nearly doubled up to around 155k.
Other notable chip stacks are listed below.
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 485k
Jose “head2782″ Severino - 295k
David “Davidp18″ Peters - 150k
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 143k
Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade - 100k (pictured left)
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 110k
Dan “wretchy” Martin - 70k
No Way, Jose!
by Jill on 06.28.08, 8:35 pm
Event #48, the $2K No-Limit Hold’em tournament seems to have settled down and fewer short stacks remain to continue the shovefest. A few over one hundred players were left standing at the end of the level, batting for the bracelet and $770,540 grand prize.
Several PocketFives players were doing exceptionally well when we last caught up with the tournament; Adam “akat11″ Katz was back with his lucky masseuse, Erin, and he had managed to chip up to more than 170K. Eric “jakz101″ Crain was cruising with about 310K in chips and Adam “Roothlus” Levy increased his stack to 100K.
Dan “wretchy” Martin also managed to chip up when his pocket kings dominated the pocket deuces of his opponent and he won a pot of about 30K. His stack increased to 160K. Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson pictured at right) was also sitting comfortably with 110K.
Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade kept his short stack viable, managing to win a few key pots and chip up to 110K. He explained that he raised under the gun with AT and was called by one other player who held Q-T. Tristan’s hand held and he managed to double up his stack. He took down a few more pots uncontested and worked his life-support stack up to a a much safer one.
The real story of the last level, though was Jose “head2782″ Severino’s ascension to chip leader. In a pot with one other player on the flop, Jose sat in late position and his opponent bet out 7K. Jose flat called him. The turn came the T, his opponent bet 23K, and Jose re-raised him all in. His opponent instantly called, flipping over AQ to Jose’s pocket kings. The river came the T and Jose took down a huge pot that had to be counted and re-counted by the dealer (with some help from Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson at the table). After the win, Jose chipped up to more than 360K in chips, surpassing Eric Crain’s domination.
Other PocketFivers, however, did not fare as well in recent play. Daniel “voff” Deveau, Jon Wein, and Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski were amongst the recent eliminations.