WSOP 2008
In the Passenger Seat
by Brett on 06.24.08, 7:47 pm
The five remaining players at today’s $1,500 Mixed Hold’em event final table have just returned from a 20-minute break and the the race to catch Nick Binger begins. Binger has over 1.3 million chips – more than half of the chips in play – and has single-handedly eliminated every player so far at the final table. Meanwhile, Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo sits patiently with 316K, good for second most at the table while the other three players hover around 200K.
Eric “Rizen” Lynch (13K), Shannon Shorr (8K), Chris “SKOAL” Falconer (7.7K) and Garrett “GBecks” Beckman (6.5K) are some of the notables still in today’s $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event. Almost 400 of the original 720 players have been eliminated, including bracelet winner Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (pictured left), who got all of his chips in preflop with K
K
32 and lost to a player’s aces just before the tournament went on a 20-minute break.
Down to 10
by Court on 04.24.08, 7:30 pm
After 2 quick eliminations play slowed with 15 players remaining. The stall was ended when Nick Binger (right) was eliminated by Gus Hansen. Binger was all in preflop with AQ against Hansen’s suited A3 and by the time the river was out Gus had made a flush to bust Binger in 15th place for $131,910.
After Binger’s elimination the next few bust outs came quickly with David Tran and Robert Mizrachi also being knocked out. Hansen did the dirty work against Tran, picking up pocket aces and having them hold up against Tran’s flopped pair to send David home in 14th place.
Mike Gracz was able to bust a shortstacked Mizrachi when Robert moved in and Gracz called. Gracz had pocket jacks and they held strong against Mizrachi’s A8. The victory for Gracz was short lived though. Not too long later he was all in against Gus Hansen with a flop set against the Danes flush draw. Blank on the turn but the T
on the river completed the club flush for Gus and busted Gracz in 11th place.
In between the Mizrachi and Gracz eliminations Bryan Devonshire (left) was busted in 12th place. Bryan was all in with AQ against David Chiu with pocket queens. Unlike Gus, the strategy of getting it in behind and getting there didn’t work out for Bryan and his 12th place finish brought the same payday of $131,910 that went to all finishers between 11th and 15th.
The remaining 10 players, including Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll are all now at the same table and playing down to the final 6.