WSOP 2008
Day 3 Complete, Late Eliminations
by Court on 04.23.08, 12:02 am
Gus Hansen ended day three strong, with a good call against Tim Phan on the very last hand of the day and a good turn card a little earlier to eliminate Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby. When all was said and done Gus walked away as the chip leader of the final 55 with 2,246,000 chips.
Jared had called an opening bet of 33k from Gus from the blinds and then Jared checked on the 4-2-2 flop. Gus put out a bet that was enough to put Hamby all in, which was a sizable chunk since Hamby started the hand with 320k. Hamby made the call with pocket eights and was in position for a huge double up against Hansen’s pocket sixes. A six on the turn was the dagger to Hamby’s tournament heart though and a somewhat heated Hamby was eliminated from the tournament.
Jared’s 59th place finish was worth the same $39,570 as all the other players that end up finishing between 51st and 100th.
Other late eliminations included Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (right) and Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach. They bookended Jared, finishing in 58th and 60th respectively though there is no difference in payout between the three.
Select Chip Counts:
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 1.9 million
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 805k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 781k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 432k
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 423k
Joe Sebok - 137k
Full End of Day Counts:
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count | |
| 1 | Gus | Hansen | 2,246,000 |
| 2 | Cory | Carroll | 1,900,000 |
| 3 | David | Chiu | 1,231,000 |
| 4 | Martin | Deknijff | 856,000 |
| 5 | Nicholas | Binger | 829,000 |
| 6 | Tom | Dwan | 805,000 |
| 7 | Peter | Neff | 781,000 |
| 8 | Jeff | Shulman | 771,000 |
| 9 | Mark | Newhouse | 770,000 |
| 10 | Robert | Mizrachi | 701,000 |
| 11 | Vadim | Trincher | 699,000 |
| 12 | Amir | Vehedi | 696,000 |
| 13 | Steve | Wong | 662,000 |
| 14 | Nhan | Le | 605,000 |
| 15 | Michael | Gracz | 551,000 |
| 16 | David | Tran | 550,000 |
| 17 | Eric | Richards | 539,000 |
| 18 | J Onathan | Kalmar | 526,000 |
| 19 | Jared | Okun | 523,000 |
| 20 | John | Celii | 515,000 |
| 21 | Soheil | Shamseddin | 506,000 |
| 22 | Men | Nguyen | 499,000 |
| 23 | John | Hoang | 481,000 |
| 24 | James | Calderaro | 478,000 |
| 25 | Andrew | Black | 476,000 |
| 26 | Bryan | Devonshire | 465,000 |
| 27 | Karga | Holt | 448,000 |
| 28 | Scott | Epstein | 447,000 |
| 29 | Steve | Billirakis | 432,000 |
| 30 | Matthew | Vengrin | 423,000 |
| 31 | Eric | Kesselman | 364,000 |
| 32 | Kenny | Tran | 362,000 |
| 33 | David | Grey | 354,000 |
| 34 | Thomas | McCormick | 341,000 |
| 35 | Matthew | Giannetti | 326,000 |
| 36 | T J | Cloutier | 321,000 |
| 37 | JC | Tran | 303,000 |
| 38 | Gary | Gibbs | 296,000 |
| 39 | Noah | Schwartz | 270,000 |
| 40 | David | Kim | 256,000 |
| 41 | Carlos | Mortensen | 256,000 |
| 42 | Abdo | Lattouf | 246,000 |
| 43 | Keith | Gipson | 230,000 |
| 44 | Jeff | King | 226,000 |
| 45 | Mats | Rahmn | 220,000 |
| 46 | Danny | Wong | 218,000 |
| 47 | John | Kincaid | 214,000 |
| 48 | Isabel | Mercier | 207,000 |
| 49 | John | Roveto | 181,000 |
| 50 | Jayde | Tran | 179,000 |
| 51 | Joe | Sebok | 139,000 |
| 52 | Brian | Rast | 114,000 |
| 53 | Thomas | Schneider | 92,000 |
| 54 | Tim | Phan | 69,000 |
| 55 | Zvi | Shiff | 22,000 |
Vengrin Going Strong
by Court on 04.22.08, 10:30 pm
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (right) is up to 575k as Day 3 play works into the last level of the day. There was an accidental clock buzzer that caused the clock to stop 15 minutes early on the fourth level of play, but since some players were already out of the room the decision was made to go ahead and take the break and then play out the 15 remaining minutes after break. After the last few hands at the 4k / 8k level the blinds will roll into the 5k / 10k level.
After 90 minutes of play at that level the players will be done for the day and will come back tomorrow at noon to continue play. With one level left to play in the day there are 73 players remaining.
Vengrin was able to pick up some chips with pocket jacks. He called a bet on an 8 high board and then checked behind the other player when a queen hit on the turn. Another queen hit on the river and Matt snap called a bet of 50k on the river. The other player showed K-8 and Matt turned over his jacks to pick up the pot.
A crowd has just gathered around Daniel Negreanu’s table and after the commotion Daniel made his way to the stage where the payouts are being handled marking his elimination from the tournament.
Not So Rich
by Court on 04.22.08, 8:54 pm
The first hand of hand for hand play was uneventful and took about 3 minutes for all the tables to finish up. The next hand put an end to the money bubble and hand for hand play. Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (left) was all in preflop with pocket aces against the pocket eights of Amir Vahedi. Amir made a set to crack Jordan’s aces and cost eliminate him in 101st place and on the money bubble.
Just before the break Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan and Eric “Rizen” Lynch were also eliminated.
Play is expected to move along pretty quickly now that everyone left is in the money and there are no pay jumps all the way down to 50th place.
Here is a short list of some of the players to make the money:
Peter “#1Pen” Neff, Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin, Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll, Joe Sebok, Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis, Daniel Negreanu, and Bryan Devonshire.
Around The Room
by Court on 04.22.08, 7:54 pm
The century mark of remaining players gets closer and closer as the field has dropped to only 113 after an hour of play into the 3rd level of the day. Here are some chip counts from a quick scan of the room:
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 625k (right)
Joe Sebok - 425k
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 390k
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 350k
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 285k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 210k
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 165k
Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen - 140k
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 130k
Chris “Genius28″ Lee - 125k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 120k
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan - 110k
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 75k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff (left) and Tom “durrrr” Dwan are both at table 59 and both recently picked up pots without going to showdown. Neff was able to grab a nice pot with a 54,500 chip all in on a board of 4
4
3 with the pot already containing over 60k. His uncalled all in earned him the pot and built his stack to around 120k as the money bubble gets closer.
Dwan had opened a pot and a player two to his left put in a raise of 23,500 more. Tom thought for a minute before putting out a stack of chips worth 75,000, leaving his opponent 51,500 more to make the call. The player folded though and Dwan picked up the pot preflop and is up to 350k.