WSOP 2008
Makhija busts out in 5th, Roenick gets cracked
by AdamJ on 06.01.08, 9:24 pm
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija’s (pictured at right) deep run in the 10k pot-limit hold-em came to an abrupt end when he ran into the man nobody can seem to fade in overwhelming chip leader Andy Bloch.
With blinds at 25k-50k, Makhija raised to 175k but got reraised by Bloch to 415k, and Makhija called putting him all-in, trailing Bloch’s A
7
with A
3.
After the board ran out Q964A, Bloch’s chip lead ascended to 4.15 million, way ahead of Nenad Medic’s 1.28 million in second.
Makhija’s final table finish was good enough for $198,528.
San Jose Shark Jeremy Roenick will have to wait for another event make his first WSOP final table and second cash.
With 150-300 blinds and a 25 ante, Roenick opened in early position to 1k and an opponent from late position reraised to 4k.
Roenick with about 6k behind after his raise, went all-in, tabling the KQ but was bested by his opponents 77
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Neither player improved by the river and Roenick was eliminated.
After pacing back and forth throughout the Rio for most of the day, it became obvious that one table was stacked with well-known tournmant pros as Mike Binger, Lee Watkinson, Joe Sebok, Shawn Buchanon, and Arnold Spee tried to outduel each other in route to the next day.
The table become a little more maneagable when Shawn Buchanon busted after he got all-in post flop with an inferior kicker.
Some notable players making waves in the $1.5k NL event are Ryan “Daut44″ Daut with 18k and Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar 25k with blinds at 150-300 and a 25 ante.
NHL All-Star takes bad beat, Young busts out
by AdamJ on 06.01.08, 7:01 pm
Nursing a short stack in the 1.5k NL event, San Jose Shark Jeremy Roenick (pictured at right) had seen better days.
A nine-time NHL all-star, Roenick had just taken a bad beat before switching tables when his flopped straight lost to top pair and an open-end straight draw on the river.
Roenick has played poker for about ten years and started playing tournaments in recent years when televised poker got popular.
Roenick’s playing in his fifth WSOP event and he cashed in last year’s 6-max NL event.
He hopes to make his first WSOP final table this summer and plans on playing 3 to 4 more events this summer.
Roenick said he unfortunately can’t play the Main Event because a deep run would conflict with his obligation to the San Jose Sharks.
Ryan “youngluck” Young failed to cash in the first two WSOP events this year after busting out with a short stack in the 1.5k NL event.
Young, who went out 11th in the 10k pot-limit hold-em event about 12 hours, lost two big all-ins with AK before busting out, the first of two confrontations losing to the same hand when his opponent hit a backdoor flush.
On his final hand, with the blinds at 100-200, Young went all-in for 1,400 after one limper only to have an opponent behind him move all-in with a slightly bigger stack.
Young revealed the AK, trailing his opponents JJ, and said “Let’s try this again.”
The board didn’t connect with Young’s big slick, giving him a breather before his next event.