WSOP 2008
Vengrin vs. Paris
by Crystal on 07.07.08, 12:17 am
Bryan “bparis” Paris and Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured at right) recently got into a hand together. With the blinds at 150/300 Bryan raised to 900 and Matt called from the button. The flop came A
22
and both players checked. The turn brought the 8
and both players again checked. The K fell on the river and Bryan checked for a third time but Matt was tired of checking and threw out 1.5k. Bryan shuffed a few chips in his hand and reluctantly made the call. Matt showed the AJ
for aces and deuces and Bryan tossed his cards into the muck.
Mark Newhouse might be a little upset after a hand where the board was showing K86. The two other players in the hand checked to Mark who bet 2k. One called, then the second raised to 9.5k and Mark re-raised all in. The first player folded, and the other, with less chips than Mark, made the call.
Newhouse showed AA, but his opponent held 86 for two pair. The turn was the 4 and the river the 6 and Newhouse has been knocked back to 9k.
It seems that players have again fallen into their post-dinner comas as we aren’t seeing quite as much action as of late but here are a few post-dinner chip counts if you’re still hungry!
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 72K (pictured left)
Gus Hansen - 48k
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 47k
Thayer “THAY3R” Nelson - 47k
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 41K
Jeremy “Chipsteela” Menard - 40k
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 46k
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 36k
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 35k
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 34k
David “ComptonMasta” Barter - 27k
Nathan “darkcheck” Tuthill - 19k
Russell “rcrane082985″ Crane - 16k
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 8k
Marco, Graham, and Rajkumar Eliminated
by Crystal on 06.01.08, 12:52 am
Shortly after the bubble burst in the PLHE tournament Mark Newhouse called Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson’s all-in preflop. Johnson (pictured) showed AK and Newhouse held the QQ. The board ran out T826T. Johnson couldn’t catch anything and was knocked out in 34th place.
In another hand Matt “MattG1983″ Graham raised preflop and Kathy Liebert raised enough to put Graham all in. Graham called with the A9 but was behind to Liebert’s AJ. The flop of J9(5s} gave Graham the nut flush draw as well as pairing both kickers, but the K on the turn, and the K on the river ended Graham’s tournament. Both Johnson and Graham recieved $23,162 for their efforts.
After one player limped and another raised, Mike “MikeUNCC” Sowers reraised to 128,000. Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar called putting himself all in for 110,000 total. The limper and original raiser both folded. Sowers showed KK to Vivek’s QQ. The board ran out T-2-2-7-2 eliminating Vivek in 24th place for $26,470.
Final 18
by Court on 04.23.08, 11:31 pm
After a long session of being one off the final 2 tables play has finally concluded for the night with the elimination of Mark Newhouse. The schedule for today was 5 levels or down to the final 18, whichever came first. Throughout the day it looked like 18 would be reached pretty early in the day, but it ended up taking all but the last 45 minutes of the 5th level to cut the field down to two tables.
Amir Vahedi did the dirty work, eliminating Newhouse and ending play. Vahedi’s pocket deuces held up against Mark’s AT all in preflop. Scott Epstein was also eliminated at another table in a hand going on at the same time as Newhouse’s elimination hand. They will finish in 19th and 18th place and both will get $105,525.
Final 17 Chip Counts:
Amir Vahedi - 3,907,000
Gus Hansen - 2,929,000
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 2,874,000 (right)
David Tran - 2,543,000
Nhan Le - 1,950,000
Jeff King - 1,903,000
David Chiu - 1,742,000
Mike Gracz - 1,674,000
Karga Holt - 1,500,000
Kenny Tran - 1,442,000
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 1,346,000
Robert Mizrachi - 1,079,000
Bryan Devonshire - 984,000
Nick Binger - 701,000
John Roveto - 556,000
Jeff Shulman - 473,000
Andy Black - 411,000