WSOP 2008
Eights Are Great
by Crystal on 07.06.08, 7:01 pm
Ryan “youngluck” Young is sitting a little prettier than he was earlier. Young raised to 550 from under the gun and a player in late position called. The small blind raised to 2k and Young made the call but the other player folded. The flop came 8
52
and the small blind checked over to Young who bet 2.5k. The small blind then check-raised to 6k. Young thought for a little bit before he pushed all in and the small blind, who had Young covered, made the call. The small blind flipped over the A
A but his aces were no match for Young’s flopped set with the 8
8. The turn and river were the K and the 7 and Young doubled up to a little more than 35k.
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut (pictured at left) was having a hot run of cards when we caught up to his table. Ryan held a 20K stack and had just shoved all his chips into the middle on a board of J-K-2-7-A when he was in the under the gun position; a player in late position with a similarly-sized stack called him and the All-In paddle flew up in the air. Ryan flipped over pocket jacks for a flopped set and his opponent mucked his cards, leaving a crippled stack behind.
The next hand from the big blind, Ryan did not use his option to check and instead made a 2K raise preflop. All players remarked on the huge raise, but the several limpers sent their chips his way. Two hands later, from the button, Ryan called down a 600 chip raise from a player in middle position and the flop came 66K. Both players remaining in the hand checked down the flop and the turn to see the board run out 2Q. His opponent checked to him on the river and he flipped over pocket eights, which were good enough to pick up the pot and increase his stack to 34K.
Though not a comprehensive list, here are some of the recent chip counts.
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 39k
Hevad Khan - 35.5K
Michael “shipitthisway” McNeil - 35k
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 35K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 34K
Mike “BraveJayhawk” Jensen - 33K
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 32.5K
Ronald “jus2awsum” Lee - 32k
Adam “adamoos” Elpayaa - 29.5K
Mathew “dippydough” Diapoli - 28k
Russel “rcrane082985″ Crane - 26k
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 25k
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 25k
Jonathan “BigChuck” Marshall - 23k
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 22k
Carl “colson10″ Olson - 22K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 21.5K
Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle - 21k
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 21K
Nicholas “snowman2k6″ Young - 19k
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 17.5K
Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 14.5K
David “ComptonMasta” Barter - 14k
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 12.5K
NHL All-Star takes bad beat, Young busts out
by AdamJ on 06.01.08, 7:01 pm
Nursing a short stack in the 1.5k NL event, San Jose Shark Jeremy Roenick (pictured at right) had seen better days.
A nine-time NHL all-star, Roenick had just taken a bad beat before switching tables when his flopped straight lost to top pair and an open-end straight draw on the river.
Roenick has played poker for about ten years and started playing tournaments in recent years when televised poker got popular.
Roenick’s playing in his fifth WSOP event and he cashed in last year’s 6-max NL event.
He hopes to make his first WSOP final table this summer and plans on playing 3 to 4 more events this summer.
Roenick said he unfortunately can’t play the Main Event because a deep run would conflict with his obligation to the San Jose Sharks.
Ryan “youngluck” Young failed to cash in the first two WSOP events this year after busting out with a short stack in the 1.5k NL event.
Young, who went out 11th in the 10k pot-limit hold-em event about 12 hours, lost two big all-ins with AK before busting out, the first of two confrontations losing to the same hand when his opponent hit a backdoor flush.
On his final hand, with the blinds at 100-200, Young went all-in for 1,400 after one limper only to have an opponent behind him move all-in with a slightly bigger stack.
Young revealed the AK, trailing his opponents JJ, and said “Let’s try this again.”
The board didn’t connect with Young’s big slick, giving him a breather before his next event.