WSOP 2008
Tristan Must Wade ‘Til Next Year
by Jill on 07.06.08, 10:24 pm
Meanwhile, in the Tropical Room, only thing audible was the sound of chips ruffling. We caught up with Jim “KrazyKanuck” Worth (pictured at right) who explained he’s been having a rollercoaster of a day. He said that at one point, he was down to 8K after being all-in with a flush draw and bricking out. He also said he had to lay down a flopped set against a straight on the board, but managed to chip up to about 23K. Now at 18K, Jim was looking to stop the chip swings and take a nice, relaxing dinner break.
At the other corner of the Tropical Room, we caught up with Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade (pictured below) who protected a 5K stack, up from an earlier crippled 3K. He expressed frustration to PocketFives with how the deck hit him in earlier levels. 
In one hand we witnessed, he limped into a pot with several other players and the board ran out J-T-J. The table checked down and a king fell on the turn; Tristan bet out 600 and the table folded to him. He threw A-Q face-up into the muck for a turned Broadway straight and raked in the pot.
However, on the next hand, Tristan’s hopes for the bracelet were dashed. He bet out 800 preflop from middle position and was immediately called. The flop came Q
Q
8 and, first to act, he bet 1,200. His opponent insta-raised him to 3K. Tristan moved all-in for 5,375 more and got the call. The turn was the A
and Tristan’s A9 flush draw picked up a couple additional outs. But the 5 on the river couldn’t catch him up to the other player’s Q-X and he packed his bags up to head for the rail just before dinner break. Another recent elimination was Adam “adamoos” Elpayaa.
Unofficial chip counts before the break:
Ben “bfineman” Fineman - 78K
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 63K
Gary “Debo34” Debernardi – 62K
Bryan “bparis” Paris – 50K
Mike “BraveJayhawk” Jensen - 50K
Gus Hansen - 47K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 41K
Jeremy “chipsteela” Menard - 40K
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 37K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 36K
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 34K
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 34K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 33K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 32K
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 28K
Ronald “jus2awsum” Lee - 26K
David “ComptonMasta” Barter - 21.5K
Brett “gank” Jungblut - 21K
Frank “Round42” Rusnak – 20K
Mark “AceSpades” Rodoja – 20K
Kyle “kwob20” Bowker – 19K
Russell “rcrane082985″ Crane - 18K
Nathan “darkcheck” Tuthill - 17K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 17K
Jon “FatalError” Aguiar - 14K
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 13K
Glen “choron” Chorny - 10K
Aaron “ndgrinder59″ Steury - 8K