WSOP 2008
Wrap Up
by Jessica on 06.11.08, 4:53 am
Tom “Durrrr” Dwan was recently eliminated in 8th place from the $10K 2-7 single draw event, bubbling the final table. The remaining seven players are all known poker pros: Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Jeff Lisandro, Barry Greenstein, Tony G, David Benyamine, and Tom Schneider.
Day One of the $1.5K PLO tournament is complete and a mere 46 of the original 759 entrants remain. Vanessa Selbst, Eugene Todd (bro), Carter “devinr12″ Gill are currently the top three in chips. Others still in the event include Jordan “iMsolucky0″ Morgan and Jamie “TheNew” Robbins. They will all return at 2pm tomorrow to play down to the final table.
Event #16’s race for the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo bracelet and a grand prize of has been reduced to a three-way contest between chipleader Ted Forrest, Andrew Brown, and Jim Pechac. With 1.8M in chips, Forrest has Brown outchipped 6:1, and Pechac barely hung on with 125K in chips. One could almost taste the grand prize of $226,483 at the table as the event nears its inevitable end.
The Limit Hold’em contest entered the last level of the evening and one of the first to be eliminated was Eric “EFro” Froehlich, who went all-in with this short stack on the small blind. Two players called his raise and his Q
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couldn’t hold up. Other recent eliminations include Aaron “NDGrind59″ Steury, Bryan Micon, Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich, Justin Bonomo, and Kevin “BeL0waB0ve” Saul. Fear not, however, as some PocketFivers, like Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar (pictured at left), remain. Play concludes within the hour and will resume tomorrow afternoon to fight down to the final table.
Riskky Business
by Jill on 06.11.08, 3:18 am
Eliminated in 7th place at tonight’s final table for Event #16, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements took home $36,232 in his second final table appearance in this year’s World Series of Poker. From under the gun, Scott opened with a raise, only to be met by a reraise from chipleader Ted Forrest. The big blind also got in on the action, inspiring him to jam it all in when the action returned to him. Both players called and the board came 4
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Q5. Scott mucked his hand and exited the tournament, making his third cash of the series and second final table elimination.
The $1.5K shootout has finally reached heads up play after nine and a half hours of play today and a marathon session of poker yesterday. After playing one of the longest sessions of poker on Day One, John “Ihave3pair” Strzemp was eliminated in 3rd place when he moved all-in on the river as a bluff and was called by Mike Schwartz, who held top pair. He will earn $129,675 for his efforts.
Both of the remaining players, Jason Young and Mike Schwartz, had an extremely long Day One as well, with their second tables not concluding until after 5am this morning. With less than seven hours off in between, fatigue is becoming a major factor in this final stage of play.
The $5K No-Limit 2-7 Draw w/ Rebuys also neared completion for the evening as the players duked it out for spots at the final table. Tom “durrrr” Dwan continued to push around his opponents with his big stack; he remained near the top of the count with 510K.
Nothing But Net
by Jessica on 06.11.08, 12:22 am
Over the past half an hour, progressively less poker is being played here in the Amazon room as more and more players become caught up in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. All of the televisions in the Amazon Room are either being used as tournament clocks or to broadcast the game. We have had to be careful where we stand as many players, who likely have interest in the game past simple team spirit, have been verbally abusing anyone who gets in their way.
Over at the 2-7 single draw event, Mike Matusow berated the tournament director for accidentally standing in front of the television. Many of the remaining players are craning their necks to try to catch the remaining minutes of the game. The media has dubbed the space between the tables and television in this area a “no fly zone” and are doing their best to avoid walking through there at all costs. One player who doesn’t seem particularly upset about being seated with the back to the television is Tom “durrrr” Dwan (pictured at left), who is listening to music on his headphones and continuing to build his already large chip stack. Even though the money bubble is still a few players away, Dwan appeared to be doing a nice job of maintaining aggression as the NBA money bubble was determined in the final minutes of the 4th.
In other news, the $1.5K Ladies Event has crowned Svetlana Gromenkova as the winner of the event after she defeated Anh Le heads up. On the final hand Svetlana and Anh got it all in pre-flop with pocket kings and A-5 respectively. The flop provided Le with a gut shot straight draw, but the turn and river were no help and she was eliminated in second place.
At the final table of the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo Event #15, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements’ stack looked dangerously low as the table is down to seven players after the elimination of Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke and Allan Enciso. Clements trailed the pack with 120K after losing a pot to Jim Pechac who flipped over a pair of eights on the river, not expecting to win. When we caught up with the table, the current chipleader, Ted Forrest, was bullying with his big stack and preventing much action from occurring. In order to win another bracelet, Clements must make a move - and fast. In the meantime, the players have taken a 90-minute dinner break and will be back with a vengeance at 10:30PM PST as they race for the bracelet.
In the $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em event, the field narrowed to three as Rory Monahan was eliminated in 4th for $82,582. The players have returned from dinner break and we will continue to update their progress.
Three down at $1.5K Shootout Final Table
by Brett on 06.10.08, 9:15 pm
Play slowed to a crawl for awhile in Event #17 after some early fireworks, but action has picked back up now in Round 4. Early on, Casey “ccmuney” Coleman took a huge hit during the first level of the day when his top-pair top-kicker was rivered by Sergey Rybachenko’s straight. Coleman was left with 115K at the 5K/10K level after the hand and later got his money in with AQ against the 88 of Mike Schwartz. Coleman was unable to catch up and exited in tenth place for $7,507.
Alex Triner was then taken out in ninth place by Ryan Young when his pocket jacks ran into pocket queens, but play basically came to a halt for two rounds after his elimination. Matt “hazards21″ Giannetti was able to chip back up to his orginal starting stack (players started with 1 million) by three-betting chip leader Sergey Ryabachenko a few times, but that was the extent of the action. John “Ihave3pair” Strzemp was even seen taking shots of tequila in between hands.
Then Tom “SBRounder” West, short stacked for most of the day, shoved his last 400K into the pot with AQ right into the AK of Ryan Young and the board came up empty for West, who earned $12,421 for his eighth-place finish.
Just minutes later, Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker (pictured right) doubled his short stack back to around 650K when he reshoved Matthew Giannetti’s button raise with KJ and outflipped Giannetti’s A6 on a board of QT697. Bowker, as well as Giannetti and Strzemp, are the remaining P5ers at the table.