WSOP 2008
Been Busts, Hanks Among Leaders
by AdamJ on 06.09.08, 4:17 am
Despit
e another deep run in a WSOP event, Aaron Been is yet to reach his first WSOP final table.
With 20 players left in the 2.5k NL WSOP Event #13, Aaron Been moved all-in during a small blind verse button confrontation after the button raised when everyone folded to him.
With blinds at 6k-12k and a 1k ante, Been went over the top of the button’s 30k raise, prompting a call from his opponent who woke woke up with T
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, way ahead of Been’s 5
5.
Been can find some solace in the fact that he would have busted regardless if the stacks were deeper and it didn’t get all-in preflop after the flop came T5
9.
With prominent players left in the final two tables in Event #13 like Adam “akat11″ Katz, Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks, Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier, and Shawn “buck99″ Buchanon, the roped off area a few feat behind the tables was packed with onlookers.
Not satisfied with his line of sight, Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach’s offer of twenty dollars for a front row seat was snatched up by an older gentleman watching a friend still left in the tournament.
Fohrenbach, who was there to watch Mercier, said it was the first time he’s ever had to offer money for a raibird seat but said it was money well spent.
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks has been chipping up with aggressive plays down to the final two tables.
With 17 players left, Hanks has one of the biggest stacks with 590k.
Just before players left for a break, Hanks reraised a 30k open from the button from his smalll blind, reraising to 160k.
After thinking for a few seconds the button folded and Hanks and his entourage standing nearly two feet away could exhale.
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 A7 with A3.
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.
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.