WSOP 2008
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich felt the excruciating pain of a one-outer in the past hour. At the 150/300 level, a player in early position limped and Rich (pictured left) raised to 1300 in middle position. It folded to the big blind, who reraised to 3,000 and Rich made the call after the limper folded. The flop brought A
J
5
and both players checked. The turn was the 7
and the big blind checked to Rich, who bet 3,300. He was then check-raised all in for 6500 more and made the call with A
Q
, which had the big blind’s K
K
drawing to one card in the deck. Sure enough, the K
appeared on the river and Rich leaped out of his seat in disgust. He was left with 14K after the hand.
5
2
and Truesdell led out for 1,100. Jelinek called and saw the A
fall on the turn. Bother players checked and the river was the K
. Truesdell bet 1,500 and Jelinek raised to 6,500. Truesdell stared him down for a minute, asking the player if he had the nuts or nothing, and finally folded to cut his stack down to 13.5K.
Q
to his opponent’s J
J
, but the board ran out K
7
6
2
9
and he doubled up to nearly 10K. Still short, Keven was still looking to make a move, but a lot more comfortable in the meantime.Ezra Galston got a double up at his table when he and another player got it all-in preflop with Galston holding A
K
to his opponent’s A
J
. The board ran out Q
T
4
4
9
and shot Ezra’s stack up to 34K. Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured right) also picked up a few chips without having to go to showdown in a hand where he picked up pocket kings. With the blinds at 100/200 a player raised to 700 and Adam flat called in the cut off and the big blind called as well. The flop came 9-7-5 rainbow and it checked around to Levy who bet out 1.4K. The big blind folded and the initial raiser flat called. Adam told us after the fact that he was afraid his opponent may have flopped a set on him, but when the K
hit on the turn his hand improved vastly, but also put two spades on the board. The other player bet out 2.1K and Levy raised to 6K. His opponent thought before folding what he claimed was pocket queens and Adam took down the pot. He currently sits with 23K.
We also caught up with Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, who had a story for us. Graham raised to 750 with A-Q and a woman in seat one made the call. A player in seat 6 then moved all in for more than 11,000. Graham, fearing only the woman behind him, laid the hand down and the woman called with a pair of tens. The “idiot” who moved all in, as Graham referred to him, had K-Q and was eliminated when his hand failed to improve. Matt then said that if he had called he would have been sent packing, as the woman admitted she would have called Graham’s all in as well and would have made a set of tens to trump Graham’s pair of aces. Nice laydown, sir.
Here are the chip counts of some notable P5ers midway through Level 3:
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 67k
Brian Devonshire - 54k
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 50.5K
Darren Elias - 50K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 50k
David “Bakes” Baker - 47.5K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 44k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 41k
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 38K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 35K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 33K
Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo - 29k
David “Davidp18″ Peters - 26k
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 26k
Leo “SuperFluous Man” Wolpert - 23k
Joseph “WSOPJoe” May - 23K
Court Harrington - 22.5K
Jon Wein - 22K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 18k
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 17K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 12K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 12K
Out: Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver
Tags: Adam Levy, Jordan Rich, Justin Truesdell, Keven Stammen, Matt Graham, mattg1983, Octavian_C, Roothlus, stammdogg, truesyalose, WSOP Main Event Day 1c, WSOP Maine Event Related Posts:- June 25, 2008 -- Pocket Fives No Good to Graham
- June 26, 2008 -- Treacherous Tables in Rebuy
- July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
- July 5, 2008 -- Main Event Day 1c!
A large crowd gathered around Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman’s table in the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em w/Rebuys event. Freeman (pictured right), who was sitting with over 330K chips, got it all in preflop with Jeff “yellowsub” Williams and Albert Iverson, one of the tournament chip leaders. The hands:
Freeman: K
K
Albert Iverson: A
K
Williams: J
J
Players from every table (including the Stud Hi-Lo tournament going on in the same room) came over to watch the pocket kings of Freeman hold as he jumped out of his seat and got a fist pound from Eric Froelich. Even Men “The Master” Nguyen walked over and asked us “How you get it in with ace-king?” Williams was eliminated in 34th place and earned $14,904.
Freeman is the first player to hit the 750K mark in the tournament and is the chip leader by over 200K. Jamie “TheChronic420″ Rosen has also made his way back to 350K by outracing Nicolas Levi. Rosen’s Q
Q
was able to hold against Levi’s A
K
and Levi was eliminated.
Also holding strong with 27 players remaining are Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (260K) and Eric “E-Fro” Froelich (175K). Eliminated in the past hour were Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen, Randy “Randers” Haddox and Justin “looshle” Pechie.
The $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low that we mentioned is now in Level 4. Bryan Micon, Chris “SKOAL” Falconer, Bryan Devonshire and Brett “Gank” Jungblut are among the early chip leaders.
Tags: "E-Fro", "SCTrojans", Eric Froelich, Jeff Williams, Justin Pechie, Keven Stammen, looshle, Nordberg, Peter Feldman, Randers, Randy Haddox, Scott Freeman, stammdogg, WSOP Event #44, WSOP Event #47, yellowsub Related Posts:- June 27, 2008 -- Freeman Chip Leader in $1K Rebuy
- June 26, 2008 -- Online Players Looking to Run Deep
- June 25, 2008 -- “The Toilet” Makes Flush
- June 26, 2008 -- Rosen Rises in Event #44
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams made a move early on in the restart of the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em w/Rebuys event. With the blinds at 800/1600, a short-stack moved all in for 9K and Williams made the call with T
T
, which held against his opponent’s A
6
when the board revealed K
9
6
Q
K
. After the hand, Jeff received a celebration warning from the dealer for doing an Icky Shuffle-type dance in his seat, and he responded with “Sorry, I’m just doing it for the reporters.” Williams then chipped up again two hands later when he re-shoved a player’s raise and induced a fold and is now up to 33K.
Jordan “scarface79″ Smith was one of the first eliminations of the day. Conor Tate raised to 4,100 from the cutoff and Smith re-raised his last 27,000 in from the big blind. Tate deliberated and finally made the call with K
Q
and had Smith looking for help with K
J
. The 7
5
5
5
2
board was no help to Jordan and he was eliminated.
Craig “MrCasino” Gray followed in Smith’s footsteps shortly after. A player in early position raised to 4,500 and Gray (pictured right) re-raised to 15,500 on the button, leaving a little more than 20,000 behind. The original raiser called and immediately shoved his remaining chips in on a Q
9
3
flop. Gray made the call, saying “What did I do to myself,” and saw the bad news when his T
T
was behind the other player’s A
Q
. The board bricked for Gray and he was sent to the rail.
Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen took a massive hit to his stack at the 1K/2K level. Stammen raised to 5,100 from under the gun with Q
Q
and a player in late position moved all-in for close to 50K. Action folded back to Stammen, who snap-called and found pleasant news when his opponent flipped up 6
6
. The A
T
9
flop was kind to Keven, but the 6
on the river was a crushing blow and left Stammen with 25K. “It’s been like this all series,” Stammen said to us as he calmly walked back to his seat.
With 90 players remaining, here’s a look at the unofficial chip counts of some other notable players:
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks - 215K
Jamie “TheChronic420″ Rosen - 130K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 115K
Justin “Looshle” Pechie - 100K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 90K
Faraz “The Toilet-0″ Jaka - 80K
Randy “Randers’ Haddox - 80K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 50K
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 40K
Mike “SirWatts” Watson - 40K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 15K
- June 26, 2008 -- Online Players Looking to Run Deep
- June 26, 2008 -- “Whoa! Who Won that Pot?”
- June 25, 2008 -- Welcome to the Madhouse
- June 19, 2008 -- Bowker Goes Busto
Max Pescatori took home the $2.5K PL HE/O bracelet last night, defeating Kyle “RedEye33″ Kloeckner in heads up play and winning $246,741in the process. Kloeckner earned $152,410 for his efforts. Other notable finishes at the table include Allen Cunningham, who placed 4th for $76,205, and Jonathan “HoosierAlum” Depa, who came in 6th for $48,876.
The $10K HU Championship event is down to the final four and today Vanessa Selbst, Kenny Tran, Alec Torelli, and Jonathan Jaffe will play down to a winner. Selbst (pictured left) is two wins away from picking up her second bracelet in as many events and amazingly took third in the heads-up event last year. The semifinal round will begin at 2:00 PT and the winners will then play a best-of-3 championship match.
Barry Greenstein will enter the $1,500 Razz final table as 2nd in chips with 243,000 as play begins at 3:00 PT. Brandon “BrandonPL” Leeds is third with 206,000.
Several online players are still among the field of 224 in Event #27 ($1,500 No-Limit Hold’em). Court Harrington (79.4K), Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan (65.6), Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen (61.5K), Billy Westom (32.4K) and Jason Gray (29.9) are still heathy and look to play into the evening as the field dwindles down to nine.
Cole “cts” South, Brian “tsarrast” Rast and Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis are all still playing for the enormous $817,781 first-place price in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys event. The tournament is filled with heavy-hitters, including chip leaders David Benyamine, Erick Lindgren and John Juanda.
And, finally, the $3,000 No Limit Hold’em and $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship will get underway today. The $3K NLHE just got kicked off at noon with more than 600 players in their seats. The Limit event will begin at 5:00 PT.
Good luck to all playing today!
Tags: Barry Greenstein, Billy Westom, Brandon Leeds, BrandonPL, Court Harrington, Danny Ryan, Jason Gray, Jonaathan "HoosierAlum" Depa, Keven Stammen, stammdogg, THE_D_RY, Vanessa Selbst, WSOP Event #25, WSOP Event #26, WSOP Event #27, WSOP Event #28, WSOP Event #30, WSP Event #29 Related Posts:- June 15, 2008 -- Gray Clouds Subside for Jason
- June 15, 2008 -- Yellowsub Refuses to Sink
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- June 15, 2008 -- In the Waiting Line

