WSOP 2008
Kind of Jason’s Day
by Brett on 07.05.08, 7:07 pm
We missed Jason “mkind0516″ Laso early on in the day, but he caught our attention during a hand in the past hour. With blinds at 100/200, player in middle position raised 600 and it folded around to Laso (pictured left) in the small blind, who raised to 2K. The original raiser called and saw a flop of J
6
3. Laso checked and the player bet 2.5K. Laso then check-raised to 6.5K and the player called. The 7
fell on the turn and Laso’s opponent checked out of turn, giving Laso free information. He decided to move all in for 9,875 and his opponent folded. Jason is currently at 30K.
Over in the blue section we heard a dealer yell “three players all in!” which was the first we’d heard of today. It turned out to be Scott “stsitron” Sitron’s table and Scott had all of his chips in the middle. A large crowd gathered only to find out that all three had the same hand. On a J
KTQ2 board, everyone had an ace for broadway and the pot was chopped up. Sitron is sitting with 14.6K.
With 30 minutes remaining in Level 2, here’s a look at the unofficial chip counts of some notable P5ers:
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 53K
David “HosniMubarak” Tazbaz - 52K
Keven “stammdogg” Stammen - 42K
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 40K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 36K
Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 35K
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 34K
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 30K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 29.5K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 27.5K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 27K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 26.5K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 24K
Jon Wein - 24K
Justin Bonomo - 23K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 23K
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks - 23K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 22K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 22K
Phil “USCPhildo” Collins - 21K
Joseph “WSOPJoe” May - 21K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 20.5K
Felipe “Improved” Montenegro - 20.5K
Andy “BKice” Seth - 19.5K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 17.5K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 17.5K
Court Harrington - 17.5K
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 13.5K
Ezra Galston - 12.5K
Jerry “sandler1860″ Payne - 12.5K
Aditya “intervention” Argawal - 12K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 11.5K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista - 11.5K
Robby “PlayaPlz” Lipkin - 10K
Derek “blackpipe” Blenman - 9.5K
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert - 9.5K
Randy “Randers” Haddox - 3K
Its A Race
by Jessica on 06.12.08, 4:44 pm
In these large tournament fields with relatively small starting stacks, winning that first coin flip is a crucial step in playing your way down to the final table. During the first two levels of play in the $2K a couple of P5ers were on both sides of the race situation with very different results.
Nick “fu_15″ Maimone knew he was in a coin flip situation when he got it all-in pre-flop with his pocket tens against his opponent’s A-K. As he contemplated whether or not to call the other player’s all-in, he eventually put his chips in the middle as he told the table, “I’ll gamble.” The gamble paid off and his tens held, increasing his chip stack to 7K (well above the current average). Another player who is already off to a great start is Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby–he already has 14K.
Scott “stsitron” Sitron found himself in a similar situation when he got it all in on a 10-8-4 board with his A-K. Unfortunately for him, his opponent held pocket tens and Sitron was sent to the rail. Other early eliminations include Mike “Wiscomurray” Murray, Mike “UNCC” Sowers, and Shane “shaniac” Schleger.
Justin Shronk (pictured right) also made an early exit from the tournament, but his final hand was not exactly a race situation. With the blinds at 50/100 a player raised to 250 in early position and the player on the button called. Shronk moved all-in for 1625 from the small blind with A-J off suit. The initial raiser then reraised all-in for around 6K chips and the button folded. The other player showed 10-7 off suit and flopped a 10, sending Shronk to the rail.