WSOP 2008
Early BustOuts
by Court on 09.28.08, 1:04 pm
Day 1B at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair has been rough on a lot of players. Buddies Brandon Cantu and Jeff Madsen were both able to quickly free up their afternoon for some sight seeing in London. Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan cleared out a seat at his table under the steps (yep, the table is actually located under a staircase) that has since been filled in by Mike “Timex” McDonald.
While one title winner is doing well another has been sent packing. Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad’s defense of her title in this tournament is coming along nicely as she continues to build chips. Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar (left) can still live in the glow of his recent WPT victory, but his dreams of back to back major titles will have to be put on hold for a while.
Rajkumar isn’t the only recent WPT champion to find himself on the rail of the WSOPE Main Event today. Mike “SirWatts” Watson captured his WPT title in July at the Bellagio cup, but like Rajkumar and the other eliminations he won’t be adding any WSOPE hardware to his collection this year.
With two full levels in the books the players with chips remaining will be back at the tables for 2 more hours of play before going on dinner break. Registration will also be officially closed at the end of the next level.
Mackey, Dwan Big Stacks in 10k Mixed
by AdamJ on 06.06.08, 7:01 am
Playing down to an 8-handed final table in WSOP Event #8 Mixed Championship, online’s wiz kids yield big stacks with ten players left.
James “mig.com” Mackey doubled up earlier to acquire his 480k in an earlier NL hand when his 3bet of Tom “durrrr” Dwan got 4bet all-in back to him by Dwan.
With his tournament on the line, Mackey called with T
T
, way ahead of Dwan’s KT
.
Mackey’s tens prevailed, taking him from an average stack to one of the chip leaders.
Despite his stack taking a huge hit, Dwan rebounded big in the triple draw round, which didn’t go unnoticed by his tablemate David Oppenheim.
“Durrrr’s won every single hand in triple draw,” Oppenheim said to Gus Hansen, sitting at the other table.
Here are the stacks of the ten remaining players: Mathew Glantz 650k, Tom Dwan 520k, Gus Hansen 440k, Michael DeMichele 320k, Jeff Madsen 320k, Sammy Farha 265k, Tony Rivera 200k, David Oppenheim 170k, Eli Elezra 90k.
Day 1 of the $5k MHE Event Ends, Turner Chipleader
by Crystal on 06.03.08, 5:40 am
The first day of the $5k Mixed Hold Em event is officially over, but not before some entertaining discussion went on at table #10.
Populated with popular players David Benyamine, Andy Black, Phil Laak, and Howard Lederer, this table was incredibly talkative leading up to the end of play.
During a conversation regarding how tight different players play Phil Laak stated “If you are dormant for a long time you build up credibility.” Obviously Phil didn’t feel like sitting dormant as he raised the very next hand and everyone folded. Andy Black asked “If I had pushed all in would you have folded?” and Phil laughed.
Not long after this transpired Black made it 1600 to go during a NL round and Phil Laak pushed all in for 10,325 more. Black sat for a long time debating whether to call or not as David Benyamine jokingly began to give him a hard time about whether he was going to call or not. One player at the table said “I’m gonna bet 500 chips he’s gonna fold” and the table laughed. Black did eventually fold and Phil pointed to one card and said “For $22 I’ll show you this one” but wasn’t taken up on his offer. Black did recieve a big teddy bear hug from Phil after the hand, but that probably wasn’t quite as pleasing as a large pile of chips.
An unknown player who is in the 9 seat on that table had taken part in the conversation about playing tight and when he raised on his button and everyone folded he asked the table “You want me to show it?” They all said yes and he proudly flipped over his 7-2 offsuit drawing laughter and cheers from his tablemates.
Black then announced to the table, “A bluff at the beginning and a bluff at the end. That’s perfect poker! Phil Ivey you’re useless!”
It’s nice to see such good-natured banter going on, but the tone will inevitably become more serious during day 2 as they approach the money bubble.
With 91 players remaining P5er Jon “PearlJammer” Turner (pictured left) is one of the chip leaders at the end of day one and Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke is also doing well. Notables Jeff Madsen, Phil Hellmuth, and Devilfish Ulliott have been eliminated.
CrazyMarco and Keller Among Chip Leaders
by Crystal on 05.30.08, 10:23 pm
With the blinds at 400/800, Chris “Genius28″ Lee and the player in the cutoff raised back and forth pre-flop until Chris put the other player all in. Chris showed AQ while the other player had KK. The flop came 36K
giving the other player top set, and the K on the turn sealed the deal giving him quads. Although it hurt Chris’s stack he still has about 35k as we move into the dinner break.
The randomness of table draws brought some interesting collections of players. One table could seemingly be labeled the “live pro’s table” populated with players including Allen Cunningham, Joe Sebok, Andy Black, Tony Cousineau, Patrick Antonius, and Kathy Leibert. Some tables had higher concentrations of known online players as well with one table including Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Brock “t_soprano” Parker, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, Ben “Milkybarkid” Grundy and Jeff Madsen.
Other tables, such as the table with Kevin “BeLOWaB0Ve” Saul, had a mixture of well-known live and online tournaments players including Shaun Deeb, Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton, John Phan, Michael Mizrachi, Minh Ly, and Dan Shak.
Among the chip leaders heading into the dinner break were Shawn Keller and Marco Johnson (pictured), who have around 150k in chips with about 170 of the initial 352 remaining.
Other notable players had the following chips stacks: Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis 18k, Isaac Haxton 30k, Shaun Deeb 20k, Chris “Genius28″ Lee 35k.