WSOP 2008
Early Exits
by Court on 08.26.08, 6:10 pm
With the first level of day 3 under way, it didn’t take long before all ins started flying and some players hopes of making it to the money and competing for a final table were crushed. While Amit “Amak316″ Makhija and Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein were able to gain ground in the first 30 minutes of play, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby and Matt “All In At 420″ Stout were eliminated.
Hamby (right) had raised and a short stacked Greenstein moved in over the top. Jared called with pocket eights, but Barry’s pair of tens held up for him to double and leave Jared in short stack position. Not long later Hamby was all in with AQ against a pair of nines. The nines improved to a set on the flop and Hamby saw his 3 day tournament run at the Bike fall short of making the money.
Stout was eliminated in brutal fashion when his pocket aces fell to KQ. The A
JT gave Matt a set but the other player a straight. The board did not pair, though the other player did make a straight flush when the K hit on the river. After mounting a comeback late in the day yesterday, Stout’s run was cut short today.
In a pot that was raised and reraised preflop, Amit “Amak316″ Makhija (Left) finally moved in over Esther Taylor’s raise to 18,200. Esther thought for a while before quietly saying “call.” She had just over 100k behind and Makhija had her covered. After taking off his headphones and checking to make sure she had actually called, Amit then showed his A
K
. Taylor had the QQ and the two were in the classic race situation. The K7
5TT board paired the king for Amit and left Esther shaking her head as she exited the tournament area.
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson raised to 16,100 after a player opened for 6,600. Kathy Leibert then moved in from the big blind for a total of 22,800. The player that had opened the pot folded his hand and Marco called the 6,700 more. Marco’s 76 was up against Leibert’s AK and Kathy was able to double up on the Q-Q-3-K-6 board. Right after the hand their table was broken and the players were sent to fill in open seats at the 8 remaining table.
Stout Survives Day 2, Play Complete For The Night
by Court on 08.26.08, 3:54 am
After being as low as 7,800 today, Matt “All In At 420″ Stout (left) was able to rally and finish with 56,000. He is still well behind the chip leaders who come in at over 500k, but he at least has a fighting chance. Matt was able to chip up in a limped pot where he was the big blind and Gabe Gaplan came in from the small blind after another player limped.
On the TT7 flop Gabe checked and Stout bet 3k. The original limper folded and Gabe made the call. Kaplan again checked on the 5 turn and Matt bet 5,500. Kaplan called yet again and the river was the 5. After another check from Gabe, Stout announced he was all in almost instantly. Kaplan folded and Matt was able to grab the pot with what he later admitted to being nothing more than 4-3 offsuit with no spade.
The last level of play wasn’t as kind to Matt “Plattsburgh” Vengrin and Isaac “Mr Menlo” Baron. Both short stacks were eliminated before the day ended.
Full chip counts and seating assignments should be available later, but for now here are some end of day counts from around the room:
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 258,200 (right)
Kyle Wilson - 243,100
Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham - 216,100
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija - 206,600
Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn - 162,200
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 89,400
Matt “All In At 420″ Stout - 56,000
Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein - 40,300
West Pulls a Kessler
by AdamJ on 07.01.08, 4:18 pm
Although you may see Tim “TMay420″ West (pictured right) in the big 10k buy-in events, don’t think he still doesn’t pinch his pennies.
West registered earlier for today’s 1.5k Limit Shootout WSOP Event #53 but then unregistered to play in Johnny Chan’s All-In tournament, which started 30 minutes before the shootout.
After West promptly busted out in the All-In tournament, he re-registered for the Limit Shootout, plucking an extra food voucher out of the Rio.
“I pulled a Kessler and did the reg, re-reg thing and got the extra voucher,” West said. “Hey…you got to get as much out of these deals as you can right?”
Allen “TheChainsaw” Kessler is a live tournament pro known for being a value hound in any area where he can find any kind of deal or overlay that he can work to his advantage.
Perhaps no player was working the system more than Matt “All in At 420″ Stout, who has already turned a profit in the All-In tournament after he busted David Singer, collecting a 1k bounty.
Stout’s A8 turned a nut flush against Singer’s 55 in a hand where Stout called Singer’s all-in preflop with the bounty weighing heavily in the call obviously.
Knowing he just lined the pockets of an online pro he sees on tour, Singer felt bad about dusting off his bounty to Stout and mentioned to the table that there was a few others he would have liked to win the 1k.
One of the more interesting tables in the shootout field includes two of the top limit hold-em cash game players in Cardrunners instructor Mike “Schneids” Schneider and Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko
A handful of online pro’s are scattered throughout the shootout event including names like Brock “t_soprano” Parker, Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver, Tony “Bond18″ Dunst, and Shane “shaniac” Schleger.
Little and Jaka Moving Up
by AdamJ on 06.30.08, 4:44 pm
Chips are flying in the early levels of the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #52 and many P5er’s are reaping the benefits in the 2700 player capped field.
Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka (pictured at right) won a 7.5k pot when his all-in 1500 bet on the river was called by his opponent on a 99A37 board. Jaka tabled the J9 and scooped the pot.
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little busted an opponent when he raised to 300 in the 50-100 level and got re-raised to 900 by an opponent in late position. Little effectively put his opponent all-in for his remaining 2k stack and his opponent called with QQ, way behind Little’s KK. The board ran true for Little, whose stack sits around 5.5k.
Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth got shortstacked early but won a race early in an all-in preflop confrontation with his KQ running down his opponents 99, increasing Niergarth’s stack increased to 1700.
Shane “shaniac” Schleger and Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista will have to battle back from rough starts as Schleger sits with 1k and Batista at 2k. Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski’s stack has been reduced to three green 25 chips but is in way better shape than Adam “Roothlus” Levy, who busted out early.
Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh and Matt “All In At 420″ Stout have chipped up a little in the first few levels with Slaubaugh at 3300 and Stout at 3600.
Seat Open!
by Crystal on 06.28.08, 6:16 pm
Because play ended last night in the $2k NLHE event #48 right after the bubble burst, the “all-in fest” that usually occurs immediately following was saved for today. Less than 30 minutes after play began two tables had already been broken and David “ComptonMasta” Barter and Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin are amongst the early casualties.
Bryan “Devo” Devonshire was also eliminated when his pocket fives ran into pocket jacks and failed to improve.
60 players have been eliminated in the first 75 minutes of play today and the other short stacks will obviously be looking to make moves soon so the high number of eliminations is likely to continue through the early part of the afternoon.
In the $1.5k NLHE event that started at noon today Justin Bonomo (pictured right) has jumped out as one of the early chip leaders with 14k while Theo Tran, Jeff ”yellowsub” Williams and Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul have already been eliminated.
Eric “Rizen” Lynch was guarding a short stack when PocketFives caught up to his table on a T-7-4 flop. Eric moved all in with Q-8 after the flop and managed to double against pocket jacks when he spiked a queen on the turn. Another player at his table asked, “Is there a bounty on you or something?” before Eric laughed and collected the pot. Other players faring less profitably include Dave “davyg” Gyarmti, who had accumulated up to 5.2K in chips until his pocket kings were cracked by pocket nines. He was down to 1.8K at the break.
Other PocketFives members spotted in the event include David “seal” Eisenstein, Scott “thebasher007″ Stubbs, Nick “FU_15″ Maimone, William “gptbigguy” Looper, Joseph “Dyzalot” Morneau, Micah “mordan” Hendrix, Faraz “The Toilet-0″ Jaka, Chris “sooooted” Vaughn, Steve “willywoo” Nolan, Matt “All In At 420″ Stout, Eric “erbloore” Bloore, and Matt “SamENole” Smith. Some chip counts for other players are listed below.
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 3.5K (pictured left)
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 4K
Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor - 5.2K
Chris “big huni” Hunichen - 4K
Andriy “tormos” Pavlyuk - 6K
Shawn “raptorfan” Morris - 4.5K