WSOP 2008
Shorr Runner-Up in $2K, Rivera Wins $10K Mixed Event
by Jill on 06.07.08, 1:14 am
After two hours of heads-up play in Event #7, Shannon Shorr (pictured at left) couldn’t catch Matt Keikoan, who won the WSOP bracelet for the event and a grand prize of $550,601. Shorr won $349,141 for his second-place finish after 67 presumably card-dead hands of Keikoan slowly chipping away at his stack. Many congratulations to Shannon for his stellar performance and we look forward to watching him in the days to come!
Meawhile, in the $10K World Championship Mixed Event, Tony “tongni” Rivera (pictured at right) took down all the chips in the room to win the bracelet and $483,688. Heads-up against James “mig.com” Mackey for a brief ten-minute match, Rivera’s A
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remained strong against Mackey’s all-in preflop A
9. Mackey won a palindromic $297,792 for second place. Congratulations to both players!
Event 7 Heads Up
by Crystal on 06.06.08, 10:51 pm
With 3 players left in the $2k NLHE tourney, Carter Gill raised to 170k and both Matt Keikoan and Shannon Shorr called. The flop came KQ4. Keikoan bet 100k and Shorr called, creating a side pot after Gill threw in his last 12k. The turn was the 2 and Keikoan bet out 350k, prompting Shorr to fold. Keikoan took the side pot and he and Gill went to showdown. Keikoan tabled the AK
while Gill held the 86. The river was the 4, missing Gill’s flush draw and he was knocked out in 3rd place winning $228,897. Shorr and Keikoan are now heads up and very close in chips so it should be an interesting match.
Across the room, only a few of the original 36 tables from the $5k shootout are still playing and some big names have risen to the top of the heap and will come back to play tomorrow. Joe Sebok, Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert, and Isaac Haxton are just a few of the players who came out victorious today.
Now running in the amazon room is event #12, the $1.5 LHE event, and a large crowd turned out for this seemingly tamer version of Texas Hold ‘Em. Entries totaled 883 which means 81 players will get paid. After 3 hours of play about 60 players have already been eliminated and that number is sure to rise right along with the blinds as the night progresses.
$2K NL and $10K Mixed Final Tables Set for Today
by Brett on 06.06.08, 3:10 pm
Events #7 and 8 will conclude this evening and feature a handful of recognizeable online players. Carter “devinr12″ Gill is 4/9 in the $2K NL event, sitting with 650K chips at a star-studded final table that includes Theo Tran (1.9 million), Alex Bolotin (345K) and JC Tran (273K). The $10K Mixed event final table is headlined by James “mig.com” Mackey , Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Tony “tongni” Rivera. Mackey is 2nd in chips behind Matt Glantz.
Meanwhile, $5K NL Shootout kicks off the day at 12:00 PT and the $1.5 NL short-handed resumes at 2:00 PM. P5ers still alive in the short-handed event are Tom “titantom32″ Braband (83K), Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaughbaugh (72K), Antuan “bigboybunk” Bunkley (65K), Ben “bfineman” Fineman (52K), Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter (38K, pictured left) and Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (26K). Seventy-one of the original 1,236 players are left in the field.
Good luck to all P5ers today!
“Worldsgrtest?” World’s Greatest!
by Jill on 06.06.08, 6:07 am
Event #5 - $1K No-Limit Hold’em w/ Re-buys:
Congratulations to Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci, who won the bracelet and top prize of $636,736 in an excruciatingly long three-way match against Peter Gould Jeff “yellowsub86″ Williams. Three-handed play continued for such a long time that the rowdy railbirds took to breathalyzing themselves for entertainment. When Banducci took down the title, with AJ vs. A5, their cheers were heard by anyone within a two-mile radius. It also begged the question: Why there was a breathalyzer at the ESPN final table?!
Event #6 - $1.5K Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Thang Luu took down the Omaha 8 event for a grand total of $243,356. P5er Chris “SKOAL” Falconer finished in 5th for $64,243 and Scott Clements netted the first finish at the final table for a 9th place prize of $22,172. Congratulations to all!
Event #7 - $2K No-Limit Hold’em
Play ended tonight with the elimination of Manny Minaya in 10th place; the final table will resume tomorrow at 3PM PST with a stacked table. Theo Tran, Shannon Shorr, and J.C. Tran will sit at the final table tomorrow with six others, all trying to win $550,601 and the bragging rights of a WSOP bracelet.
Event #8 - $10K World Championship Mixed Event
The mixed event is playing down to the final nine this evening in preparation for a star-studded table tomorrow. James “mig.com” Mackey, Michael DeMichele, Sammy Farha, Jeff Madsen, Gus Hansen, Eli Elezra, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Anthony “tongni” Rivera, and Tom Schneider are currently fighting the good fight to make it into the coveted top nine spots for this World Championship event.
Event #9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six-Handed
The short-handed event ended this evening after ten levels of play. Just before the last level ended, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby managed to double up and stay alive by catching a straight on the river.
Event #10 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better:
As the $2.5k Limit Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better enters the last level of the evening, several P5ers made a strong showing. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson led the pack with 45K in chips; Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich protected a 28K stack. Craig “MrCasino” Gray trailed with 23K, sitting next to Brock “t_soprano” Parker who was running with an average-sized stack of 15K.
Brock and Craig were chipping away at fellow table-mate Allan Kessler’s stack, as he was barely staying alive. In one stud hand, the AA were dealt face-up to Craig, who took down the pot uncontested from Kessler. The next Omaha hand saw Kessler betting out in early position to fight for his dwindling stack. The bet got three callers, including Brock, then a re-raise from Kessler and three subsequent calls. The flop came A89 and Kessler bet out once again, leaving few chips behind. Brock called along with the two others and the turn brought the 7. Kessler bet again,getting a call from Brock and another player, and inducing a fold from the last player to act. The river came 4 and play checked around to Brock, who bet to try and take down the pot uncontested. Kessler tanked for quite, pulled out a pen and notepad, and folded with very few chips behind him. Brock did receive a call from one of the original players and split the pot with the low hand.
Tran Final Tables 2k NL, Dwan Challenges Rule
by AdamJ on 06.06.08, 4:48 am
Th
eo Tran is running so good, he said he’s afraid to drive home.
Given his streak of luck today inside the Amazon room, it’s hard to blame him for not wanting to leave.
Thanks to a hot streak of cards and strong play, Tran became the first player to final table two WSOP events this summer.
Tran finishing 4th in WSOP Event #2, 1.5k NL earlier this week.
A little luck expedited Tran’s run to the final table.
Ten handed with blinds at 6k-12k with a 1k ante, Tran opened for 40k from early position as the chip leader with 1.8 million. A player from middle position moved all-in for 200k and Tran called, exposing AK.
Tran agonized when he saw his opponents KK.
His feelings changed dramatically when the A hit the flop and his opponents kings failed to catch-up, sealing the final table.
This will be Tran’s 4th WSOP final table. Last summer Tran came close the coveted WSOP bracelet when he finished second in the rebuy event.
Tran heads to the final table as chip leader with 1.884 million. Mihai Manole is second with 1.02 million.
Other notable players at the final table include Shannon Shorr with 627k, Alex Bolotin 345k, and J.C. Tran with 273k.
Despite not being as established as his counterparts on the tournament trail, Tom “durrrr” Dwan (pictured right) wasn’t afraid to speak his mind when a rule seemed unfair.
As a player busted deep in the WSOP Event #8 Mixed Championship, Dwan was informed that after every redraw 2-7 triple draw restarts as the next game.
“This is unfair, how can any game always be first, this should be random,” Dwan said. ”I have a big problem with this.”
High stakes pro David Oppenheim, sitting to Dwan’s left chimed in.
“I agree it’s unfair but it’s the rule,” Oppenheim said.
Greg “FBT” Mueller, also at Dwan’s table, agreed with Dwan but said “what can we do” in response to the fuming Dwan.
Not satisfied with “it’s the rule” as justification for its existence, Dwan continued to speak up.
Lee Watkinson came over and told him, ‘if we speak up we can change it.’
After a few minutes, a WSOP tournament director spoke up and announced they’d redraw a game at random.
When the tournament director announced No-Limit as the next game, which is Dwan’s specialty, Gus Hansen reminded Dwan how good he runs.