WSOP 2008
Good Deeb
by Jessica on 07.04.08, 10:29 pm
After being moved to his third table in as many levels, Shaun Deeb finally found himself surrounded by relatively unfamiliar faces. The other players also appeared to be actively rooting against him when he got involved with the only female at the table. With the blinds at 150/300, Deeb raised to 750 in early position and the woman in the small blind reraised to 2.1K total and Shaun made the call. The flop came down 5
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and she led out for 3.5K. Deeb thought for a good minute before raising enough to put the other player all-in for her remaining 11K. His opponent thought for a moment herself before calling with K
K
while Shaun showed 22. The T on the turn brought even more outs for Deeb and the J on the river made his flush and won him the large pot. That brought his chip stack up to 42K. He appears to have taken a few hits since then though and has 26K headed into the dinner break.
Deeb and 908 other players will be on break for the next 90 minutes. Stay tuned for more updates from the final two levels of today when play resumes at 8:30pm PST. In the meantime, here are some pre-dinner chip counts to satiate your poker appettite:
Patrik Antonius (the unofficial chip leader) - 90K
Mike “SirWatts” Watson (pictured at right)- 74K
Paul “comeonphish” Lieu - 43K
Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold - 42.5K
Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor - 39.5K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 39K
Mike “Schneids” Schneider - 36K
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 35K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 35K
Steve “gboro780″ Gross - 28K
Blair Rodman - 20K
Brian “Wing-n-prayer” Reingold - 18K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 16K
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski - 10K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 10K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 8.5K
Luck of the Draw
by Jessica on 07.04.08, 6:39 pm
With a much smaller crop of internet players playing on Day 1B, it was somewhat surprising for Tom “sbrounder” West to arrive almost an hour late to the tournament and discover Shaun Deeb (pictured at right) sitting on his left. However, the two joked to each other that in some ways, it seemed kind of inevitable. The two have been bantering back and forth ever since Tom’s arrival. For a while, they were joined by railbird and aspiring poker commentator Carter “ckingusc” King. King provided PocketFives with his own comments and insights when the two got involved in small pots together and keeping Shaun entertained when he was not involved in a hand. At one point, King even heckled Deeb until he persuaded his friend to order a drink for him and save him a trip to the bar. We think Carter has gone off to find more patriotic ways to spend his 4th of July, but if we spot him wandering around the Amazon Room again, we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
We checked back in on Shaun and Tom after the break and found both sitting with their 20K starting stacks engaged in conversation. Deeb claims West has raised every single pot since coming back from break, but the hand we stuck around for Tom conspicuously folded.
Nick “gbmantis” Niergarthrecently lost a big pot when he and another player got it all in on a flop of K-8-5 with two spades with Nick holding top set of kings to the other player’s 67 for the open-ended straight flush draw. Nick led out at the flop, the other player raised, Nick moved all-in, and the other player made the call. A 4 fell on the turn and Niergarth’s chips fell from almost 20K to just over 8K. He has since worked his way back up to 10.5K, but he still has a lot of ground to make up.
Here are some chip counts we spotted an hour into Level 2:
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 34K
Todd “DanDruff” Witteles - 31.5K
Paul “Come On Phish” Lieu - 31K
Mike “SirWatts” Watson - 30K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 25.5K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 25K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 24.5K
Blair Rodman - 23K
Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold - 23K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 21K
Matt “SamENole” Smith - 18K
Steve “gboro780″ Gross - 16K
Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman - 13.5K
Theo “pitrounder” Tran - 12K
Tim “EightLarge” Vansant - 11.5K
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski - 9K
Brian “Wing-n-prayer” Reingold - 5.5K
Micah “mordan” Hendrix - 4K
Freeman and Vinsant Moving Up
by AdamJ on 06.26.08, 3:41 am
It took Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant two hands and two minutes to go from 16k to 65k in the 1k rebuy WSOP Event #44. In the 500-1000-100 level, Mark Seif opened to 2500 and Vinsant moved all-in. To Vinsant’s dismay, a player moved all-in behind him for slightly less than Vinsant and Seif folded.
Vinsant showed KT and trailed his opponents JJ until the flop came king high. The very next hand, Vinsant raised to 2600 and a player moved all-in from the blinds for around 20k. Vinsant called immediately with AK, dominating his opponents AQ. The board ran true for Vinsant who went from from a short stack to above average stack in two hands.
Vinsant failed to win his third straight hand in a row, however, loosing about 20k when he was checkraised on the turn on a A93Q board. Vinsant told P5’s he folded AJ.
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman’s (pictured right) stack was on life support around 9k when the average 30k over an hour ago but currently is the chip leader at his table with 75k. Freeman didn’t say he had any big all-in preflop hands but mentioned that he was running good as an explanation for his rapid rise in chips.
Craig “MrCasino” Gray has also been on an upswing, as his stack has went from 18k to 46k in the last hour. Gray doubled up in a hand against Vanessa Rousso when he defended her raise from the big blind with JT. Gray check-raised Rousso when he flopped an open-end straight draw and backdoor flush draw on a nine high flop, and got re-raised all-in by Rousso, who flopped a set of nines. Gray made a straight and doubled to around 40k.
Stuart “TheDonator” Paterson (pictured left) recently doubled up when he defended a raise out of the big blind with 9-7 and flopped trips, doubling up off an opponent that had pocket aces. Paterson’s stack has gone from 47k to 110k in the past hour.
Shaun Deeb’s stack won’t be able to recover from a bluff gone bad after he went all-in over Theo Tran’s raise only to have a player raise behind him. Tran folded and Deeb proudly flipped over his 72, which was remarkably not in that bad of shape against his opponents KJ. Deeb flopped a flush draw but never improved and was sent to the rail.
Tran busted another prominent online player in Adam “Roothlus” Levy earlier when his set of three’s held up against Levy’s semi-bluffed flush draw with two overs to the board. Tran currently has 52k.
Here’s a list of other notable chip stacks with 144 remaining and the average stack at 47k.
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks - 95k
Darrell “Gigabet” Dicken - 75k
Randy “randers” Haddox - 48k
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 44k
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 42k
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 40k
Brock “t_soprano” Parker - 36k
Adam “akat11″ Katz - 35k
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 24k
Jason Gray - 14k
Diamonds are Stout’s Best Friend
by Jill on 06.26.08, 2:37 am
Fortunately for the players in the $1K No-Limit Hold’em with Rebuy WSOP event, they just had a 20-minute break to race off the green 25 chips at their tables and cool off from the stiff competition. Prior to the break, however, several showdowns resulted in recent eliminations and equally dramatic chipstack increases.
As PocketFives reported earlier, Josh “pbdrunks” Van Duyn was nursing a short stack; when we last checked in at his table, his seat had been filled by someone else and Mark Seif’s stack was up to 130K. No word on what happened, but we couldn’t spot his signature mohawk anywhere in the field. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (pictured at left) was eliminated when his A-Q hit an ace on the turn, but was rivered with the 4, giving his opponent a set of fours.
On the flip side of the draw was Matt “All In At 420″ Stout, who raised it up with 3K. He was reraised all in by a player in late position and called. When they flipped their cards over, Stout’s QT was way behind pocket kings, but a flop full of diamonds was Matt’s best friend. Another diamond on the river flushed out the other player.
Other players faring well included Scott “USCTrojans” Freeman, who sat stacked with about 60K in chips and was bullying his way through late position to take down several uncontested pots. Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant held his own with 33K at a table stacked with Men Nguyen and huge-stacked Mark Seif.
Meanwhile, Shaun Deeb (pictured at right) was raking in a pot he had gone all in on, increasing his stack to 14K just before the break. He sat at a table with Faraz “The Toilet-0″ Jaka and Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, who challenged him to a side bet of $20 when they drew cards for the green chip race-off. Deeb’s queen was enough to take down the bet. Don’t spend it all in one place, Shaun!
Play continues into Level 9 in the event and will complete at the end of Level 10. Only 180 players remain out of the original field of 879; it’s yet to be seen if we will break the bubble tonight, as has been the case in the majority of recent events. Good luck to all those who remain!
Treacherous Tables in Rebuy
by AdamJ on 06.26.08, 1:16 am
Many online players seemed a bit disgusted with their tables after players returned from an hour and a half dinner break in the 1k rebuy WSOP Event #44.
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach lamented having to play at his table, playing with Jason “JCarver” Somerville and Jeff “yellowsub” Williams to his left.
Somerville was hating life even more as he said Williams, who was sitting two players his left, was “abusing” him. The two had a playful deamenor with each other as they made cracks on each other as P5’s was watching the action.
Somerville even tried to bribe P5’s to write something bad about Williams, even offering up a green 25 chip as compensation. P5’s scoffed at the offer, electing to wait for higher compensation!
Fohrenbach’s frustration didn’t get much sympathy from Adam “Roothlus” Levy, who walked over and talked about his table which included Shaun Deeb (21k), Theo Tran (75k), Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (45k), and Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (13k).
This table was one of the more social tables, talking about many random poker stories capped off by who has broken more laptops.
After much discussion, Deeb mentioned that nobody has broken more than Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, who has a tally Deeb confidently described as “double digits” piled up in his garage.
Joshua “pbdrunks” VanDuyn (pictured left) was battling a short stack of 10k at one of the more interesting tables left, playing alongside Mark Seif (98k), Minh “The Master” Nguyen, David Daneshgar (9k), and Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant (25k).
Although VanDuyn’s situation seemed dire with about a third of the 30k average stack, it was much worse until he tripled up his 3k stack off of Vinsant when his kings held up against Vinsant’s AJ. Perhaps VanDuyn will need to borrow another colorful hat like the pink one he borrowed from JJ Lieu earlier in the day to improve his fortune.
Here’s a list of notable chip stacks during the 400-800-100 level with 198 of 879 left.
Jason Mercier - 73k
Eric “E-fro” Froehlich - 64k
Darrell “Gigabet” Dicken - 49k
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 30k
Brett “bhanks11″ Hanks - 26k
Craig “MrCasino” Gray - 21k
Stu “TheDonator” Paterson - 20k
Adam “akat11″ Katz - 20k
Matt “All in At 420 Stout” - 18k
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 9k