WSOP 2008
Slaubaugh Leading Heads-Up Battle
by AdamJ on 06.22.08, 12:35 am
Despite starting heads-up play with a 3-1 chip disadvantage, Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh now has nearly has a 2-1 chip lead over Jesper Hougaard as players head to an hour dinner break in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #36.
It’s been a dramatic run to heads-up play for Slaubaugh, who was all-in with a pair of sevens and a gutterball against two-overs and a flush draw on the flop with two tables left late last night. Slaughbaugh has 480k to Hougaard’s 250k.
Many P5er’s are making waves in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #39 as 480 of 2,720 remain.
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (pictured left) has been atop the leaderboard from the onset but has taken a hit to a stack that was over 45k as players returned from dinner break.
Clements got priced-in to losing a big pot when his 3-bet got 4-bet all-in preflop in the 300-600-75 level. Clements reraised a 2500 open to 5500 only to have a player from the cutoff go all-in for 7300 more.
After crunching some numbers, Clements called and his T
T
failed to run down his opponents Q
Q
.
Clements currently has 22k, slightly more than the 17k chip average.
Here are some other notable chip stacks left.
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 50k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 45k
Barry Greenstein - 43k
Joshua “pbdrunks” VanDuyn - 36k
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz - 31k
Theo Tran - 26k
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 23k
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 6k
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 4.5k
In WSOP Event #38, the $2k PLHE, there are only 12 players remaining. Unfortunately two of the latest casualties are P5ers Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski and Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski.
Dombrowski was eliminated when his pocket jacks ran into another players pocket queens and he failed to improve finishing in 15th place.
Sluzinski pushed all-in on a board showing T926 and his opponent (with slighly less chips) quickly called with the 99 for 2nd set while Sluzinski was only able to show the A8 for a gutshot straight draw. The 6 came on the river and Sluzinski was crippled down to a mere 10k.
He later pushed all-in with the AJ and was called by the big blind who held the K8. The flop came K83 giving the big blind two pair and giving Sluzinski a flush draw. The turn was the 6 and the river the 9 and Sluzinski was eliminated in 13th place. Both Sluzinski and Dombrowski earn $11,562 for their efforts over the past two days.
NoLongerARook
by Brett on 06.21.08, 8:43 pm
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski is enjoying himself today. The mid-stakes online MTT grinder, better known as ICuRaRook on Pokerstars, has cashed for the first time in a WSOP event and increased his stack in each level of the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em event today.
Sluzinski (pictured right) started the day with 30K and was last seen with over 75K. He’s been butting heads with arguably the toughest table left in the tournament — Shane “shaniac” Schleger, Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski, Michael Binger and now Lee Watkinson. First, it was Schleger who handed some over to Sluzinski. Jeff raised to 7.5K in middle position and Schleger, sitting directly to his left, called. On the flop of 654, Sluzinski checked to Schleger, who bet 11.5K. Sluzinski then check-raised to 30K and Schleger quickly folded. Jeff informed us a few hands later he had Q9.
Shane won some of those chips back from Sluzinski a few hands later, but after entering the level with almost 150K, has now gone broke. Schleger lost the majority of his chips to Benjamin Zamani after being moved from the Sluzinski-Dombrowski-Binger table. He flat-called a raise of 8K from Keith Lehr in the hijack and Zamani raised to 26.5K in the small blind. Lehr folded and Shane contemplated for a minute before moving the rest of his chips in the pot. Zamani called off his remaining 20K with QQ and Shane was disgusted with his AJ. The flop was gin for Schleger — AKJ — but the T on the river shipped a 90K pot to Zamani and left Schleger with 20K. He later got it all in preflop with K-J and failed to catch up to the pocket jacks of Chris Bell.
Dombrowski (115K) and Euguene Todd (60K) are also among the 34 players remaining in the event with the average stack at 73K. Play will conclude this evening when the final nine are left standing.
Shaniac World
by Brett on 06.21.08, 6:15 pm
Shane “shaniac” Schleger has decided to take over as table captain in Day 2 of the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em event, which got kicked off at 2:00 PT. Schleger has been very active early, raising and re-raising often and moving chips at a table which includes Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski and current chip leader Michael Binger, who arrived late.
Schleger (pictured right) started the day with nearly 80K and had built his stack to 95K within the first 20 minutes of play before taking a hit. With the blinds at 800/1,600, a player in middle position raised to 5,600 (with less than 2,000 behind) and Schleger isolated by re-potting in the cutoff. The button then moved in for his last 18,000 and the short stack and Schleger made the call:
Short stack: 55
Schleger: KQ
Button: AQ
The board ran out A8272 and Schleger was left with 77K while the short stack was eliminated. Dombrowski has 33K and Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski has 34K a few tables over.
Eugene Todd and Vanessa Roussa tangled a table over from Schleger’s. With both at exactly 15K, all of the chips went in preflop, Todd with KK and Rousso QQ. The kings held for Todd, who is slightly below an average stack now with 30K. Rousso was eliminated and earned $3,744.
Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaughbaugh sent the first player to the rail at today’s $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em final table. Slaughbaugh (pictured left) raised to 55K with the blinds at 10K/20K and short stack John Shipley moved in for close to 300K. Slaughbaugh made the call with JJ, which held against the KQ of Shipley, who picked up $56,782 for his ninth-place finish. Slaughbaugh is now second in chips with 1.52 million. P5ers Owen “ocrowe” Crowe (620K) and Aaron “gotcha55″ Kanter (370K) are sixth and seventh, respectively.