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
K
remained strong against Mackey’s all-in preflop A
9. Mackey won a palindromic $297,792 for second place. Congratulations to both players!
Parker & Clements Chipping Up
by Jessica on 06.06.08, 11:56 pm
In the $2.5K Stud 8/Omaha 8 event, Brock “t_soprano” Parker (pictured at right) and Scott “BigRiskky” Clements are seated side by side as the final 5 tables approach the money bubble. Clements lost most of his chips in an earlier Omaha hand with John Racener, who scooped the pot and left Clements with 9K, less than five big bets. With the blinds at 1K/2K with a 500 ante, Parker brought in the stud hand hand for a completed bet to 2K with the 6 up. Clements raised with his Q and another player with the K
offered to put Clements all in for his remaining 3700 before Parker reminded him he was still in the hand. The player apologized before 3-betting. Parker made the call and Clements moved all-in for his remaining 1700. Both made the call and their cards came as follows:
Clements: Q2TQ
Parker: 6844
Opponent: K5KJ
After 7th street, Parker missed his low, but had 2 pair, 4s and 6s. The other player held kings and jacks with no low, and Clements turned over an ace and 2 deuces for the boat and scooped the pot. He is now up to around 23K.
Despite losing the hand, Parker was still very active throughout the level and sits with a relatively healthy 47K. Craig “mr. casino” Gray also remains in the event, but his mind appeared to be more on a $100 side bet than the event itself. Gavin Smith laid Craig Gray 15-1 that Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler would finish in exactly 43rd place. Poker writer Gary Wise observed Smith’s terrible line on the bet since 40 spots pay and Kessler, who is notorious for tight play around the money bubble, would likely not let himself be eliminated without getting paid. Wise’s suggestion for a better line? 39th place. We’ll see if Wise’s predicition is correct, but in the meantime, Smith will be paying up as 41 players, Kessler included, remain in the event.
Meanwhile, in the $10K Mixed Game Championship, Anthony “tongni” Rivera crippled Michael DeMichele in an unreal race of 2-7 Triple Draw. DeMichele showed down 8-7-5-4-3 to Rivera’s 8-7-5-3-2 and was left with 40K. Shortly afterwards, DeMichele went all-in pre-draw and was eliminated by Rivera. He takes home $139,872 for his valiant efforts.
At the dinner break, the final table was three-handed with the following chip counts:
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 1.896M
Matt Glantz - 1.015M
James “mig.com” Mackey - 926K
$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!
Mackey, Dwan Big Stacks in 10k Mixed
by AdamJ on 06.06.08, 7:01 am
Playing down to an 8-handed final table in WSOP Event #8 Mixed Championship, online’s wiz kids yield big stacks with ten players left.
James “mig.com” Mackey doubled up earlier to acquire his 480k in an earlier NL hand when his 3bet of Tom “durrrr” Dwan got 4bet all-in back to him by Dwan.
With his tournament on the line, Mackey called with TT, way ahead of Dwan’s KT.
Mackey’s tens prevailed, taking him from an average stack to one of the chip leaders.
Despite his stack taking a huge hit, Dwan rebounded big in the triple draw round, which didn’t go unnoticed by his tablemate David Oppenheim.
“Durrrr’s won every single hand in triple draw,” Oppenheim said to Gus Hansen, sitting at the other table.
Here are the stacks of the ten remaining players: Mathew Glantz 650k, Tom Dwan 520k, Gus Hansen 440k, Michael DeMichele 320k, Jeff Madsen 320k, Sammy Farha 265k, Tony Rivera 200k, David Oppenheim 170k, Eli Elezra 90k.
“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.