WSOP 2008
Not So Rich
by Court on 04.22.08, 8:54 pm
The first hand of hand for hand play was uneventful and took about 3 minutes for all the tables to finish up. The next hand put an end to the money bubble and hand for hand play. Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (left) was all in preflop with pocket aces against the pocket eights of Amir Vahedi. Amir made a set to crack Jordan’s aces and cost eliminate him in 101st place and on the money bubble.
Just before the break Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan and Eric “Rizen” Lynch were also eliminated.
Play is expected to move along pretty quickly now that everyone left is in the money and there are no pay jumps all the way down to 50th place.
Here is a short list of some of the players to make the money:
Peter “#1Pen” Neff, Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin, Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll, Joe Sebok, Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis, Daniel Negreanu, and Bryan Devonshire.
Around The Room
by Court on 04.22.08, 7:54 pm
The century mark of remaining players gets closer and closer as the field has dropped to only 113 after an hour of play into the 3rd level of the day. Here are some chip counts from a quick scan of the room:
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 625k (right)
Joe Sebok - 425k
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 390k
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 350k
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 285k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 210k
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 165k
Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen - 140k
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 130k
Chris “Genius28″ Lee - 125k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 120k
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan - 110k
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 75k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff (left) and Tom “durrrr” Dwan are both at table 59 and both recently picked up pots without going to showdown. Neff was able to grab a nice pot with a 54,500 chip all in on a board of 4
4
3 with the pot already containing over 60k. His uncalled all in earned him the pot and built his stack to around 120k as the money bubble gets closer.
Dwan had opened a pot and a player two to his left put in a raise of 23,500 more. Tom thought for a minute before putting out a stack of chips worth 75,000, leaving his opponent 51,500 more to make the call. The player folded though and Dwan picked up the pot preflop and is up to 350k.
End Of Day 2
by Court on 04.22.08, 2:32 am
Of the 545 players that entered the WPT Championship only 188 remain after 2 days and 10 levels of play. Players finished up today at the 1k / 2k 300 ante level and tomorrow’s first level will be the first big jump in the blinds, going up to 1,500 / 3,000 with a 400 ante for level 11 play. Robert Mizrachi came out of day 2 as the chip leader and the only player over half a million chips with 523,200.
Bryan Devonshire finished up 4th in the counts with 393,400 and is just ahead of Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll who has 384,700. The top 13 players in the field all have over 300k chips coming into day 3 play.
Full chip counts and day 3 seating assignments are available here.
Other Chip Counts:
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 281,900
Joe Sebok - 278,100
Anna Wroblewski - 277,300
Dario Minieri - 186,000
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured) - 172,000
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 156,600
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 116,500
Barry Greenstein - 111,100
Steve “Thorladen” Weinstein - 105,300
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan - 100,600
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 98,800
Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen - 98,300
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 92,800
David “Nutstr84444″ Redlin - 90,300
Chris “Genius28″ Lee - 89,600
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 84,000
Tim “Tmay420″ West - 83,400
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 68,200
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 56,000
Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer - 35,100
Lots Of Action
by Court on 04.21.08, 4:39 pm
After a really slow pair of day ones, day 2 play has been pretty fast. Large chunks of chips are moving around the room and vacant seats are popping up and quickly being filled as tables break. Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan (left) is pushing towards the top of the chip counts and emptying seats in the process.
Morgan’s most recent victim was Johan Storakers. After back and forth preflop betting Johan was finally all in for the last of his almost 40k stack and after a brief pause Jordan made the call and turned over his pocket queens. Storakers showed AK and made his exit after the board came ten high with no help for his hand. After adding Johan’s chips to his stack Morgan looked to be right at the 200k mark.
David “Nutstr84444″ Redlin (right) also sent a player to the sidelines and built his stack up to around 80k. On a Q-T-5 board Redlin quickly called a 5,400 chip bet from his opponent and just as quickly called the players 11,700 all in on the seven that hit the turn. Redlin had the A
Q and his top pair was good enough to win the pot and eliminate the other player.
Joe Sebok was one of the players that came into the day short stacked, but after doubling up twice he is now up to 55k. Both of his double up came with pocket kings.
Kings weren’t so kind to Jonathan “HoosierAlum” Depa (left)today. Depa was around 70k when he lost a 100k pot to John Murphy. Both players flopped a straight on a draw heavy Q-J-T board and Depa’s 98 had ran into Murphy’s AK for the flopped nuts.
After that it wasn’t long before Depa was all in preflop for the rest of his chips, about 13k. He had moved in over the top with pocket kings and was called by a player with AQ. Another player had exposed an ace as he folded, but one of the two aces left in the deck hit the board, sending Depa out of the Fontana Room and on his way back to Chicago.
Shannon Shorr took a hit in the early going today too. With about 13k in the pot Shannon raised an additional 6,800 preflop (pictured right). His opponent thought for a while before finally calling. On the Q92 flop both players checked and again tapped the table on the 7
turn. With the K river the other player led out for 11,700 and Shorr ended up making the call. He then quickly mucked his hand upon seeing the QQ he was up against for a flopped set. After losing the pot Shannon was down to 22k.
And always active Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich was able to pick up a 20k pot with a 15k bet on the river against Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis. The board read 942AA and Billirakis seemed like he wanted to make the call but ultimately tossed his hand away. Shane “Shaniac” Schleger picked up a small pot as well, after raised to 9k after a player had put out 4k. He was called but then took the pot with a continuation bet on the Q76 flop.
Hitting Sets, Hanging On, Chipping Up
by Court on 04.20.08, 8:21 pm
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (left) got off to a rough start when he had set under set early in the first level and dropped from the 50k starting stack down to 30k. A few levels later he had notched a few more sets, and chipped up to just over 70k. A lot of those chips came from David “Bakes” Baker. Jordan was able to fill up with his pocket threes when a trey hit on the river. The board had paired sevens and Rich’s full house won the pot. Jordan said Baker didn’t show his hand but he was fairly certain he had a 7.
Some of Baker’s chips weren’t enough though. Jordan was in a 3-way pot with Baker and another player on a flop of K-T-7 and when an 8 hit on the turn he had made another set. The set of eights was one step above Baker’s flopped set of sevens and when all was said and done all the chips were in the middle and Baker saw his tournament ended in just 2 big hands.
Glen “Choron” Chorny (right) is fresh off a life changing victory in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Players always want more though and dual titles in the two major poker tours would be an accomplishment difficult for anyone to match. Chorny has some work to do to be a contender here though. After three levels of play on day 1 he is down to around 15k and one of the shorter stacks in the field. It is early though and a few big hands could put him right back in contention.
Louis “MrBeeks” Werman is playing his usual steady style and has chipped up to almost 60k after three levels. Werman doesn’t play all the events, but he is a regular for the big tourneys here at the Bellagio and seems very comfortable in this setting.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan (left) lost a bet and is wearing a fruit basket hat, but is all smiles for now even with the goofy hat. Dwan was able to eliminate Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo when he ran down Bonomo’s queens. Durrrr is up to 140k after a few nice pots and is trailing only Rhynie Campbell in the Day 1B chip counts.
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan has also worked his way towards the top of the chip counts and was pushing the 100k mark at last check.