Uncle Barry and Annoying Ringtones
by Rich on 06.24.09, 5:34 pm
If you walk past Table 39 in the Blue Section of the Amazon Room you can hear Barry Greenstein sharing stories with Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers and Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista. Batista, pictured left, and Sowers eagerly listen to the Bear’s tales and are quick to pose questions about them. Greenstein retold his hand with Vitaly Lunkin from the $10K PLO World Championship event. Barry could do nothing but laugh when describing the “coin flip” he lost.
The atmosphere is less jovial in the front of the Amazon Room. We bumped into Jason “JCarver” Somerville and he was shaking his head with an annoyed look on his face. When we asked him what was wrong he told us that a floorman’s phone keeps going off, and that the ringtone is, “Tilting like 70 people.” The ringtone in question is Rodney Dangerfield’s car horn in Caddyshack. The movie is a classic, but the noise is comparable to nails on a chalkboard.
There is some poker being played too, and Scott “gunning4you” Seiver picked up some chips when he and a short-stacked player got 4-bets in during the 200/400 round of Limit Hold’em. The other player only had 625 left after the preflop raising and tried to convince Scott to raise it enough to get him all-in preflop, bu Seiver declined stating, “I’ll wait to see how the flop looks.” Apparently it looked alright, as Seiver called the other player’s bet after it fell 9
3
2
. The turn was the 4
and the other player bet out 400, leaving only 25 behind. Seiver raised to put him all-in and showed AJ versus the other player’s pocket eights. The A on the river sent the pot Scott’s way and he moved up to around 9K in chips.
After the hand, Seiver mulled over a possible change in nicknames with his tablemates Justin Bonomo and Tim “TMay420″ West.
“How come no one is known as The Cipher?” Seiver asked.
“You could be the Cipher,” West responded. “Scott ‘The Cipher’ Seiver.”
“I like it. Like no one can read me…I’m a cipher,” Seiver responded. Meanwhile, Bonomo just watched in silence. Bonomo is still sitting on his 7.5K starting stack while West is off to a fast start with 13.5K.
Shaun Deeb was able to pick up a decent pot to win one of the last hands before break. He raised in late position during the limit round and the player in the big blind called. His opponent check-called bets from Deeb on every street as the board ran out AT2JT and Deeb rolled over JT for a rivered full house. The other player flipped up his ace while Deeb raked a pot that took his chip count up to 6.4K. Meanwhile, his tablemate Corey “comandr_cool” Burbick is sitting at 11K.
Here are some other chip counts:
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers — 16K
Craig “MrCasino” Gray — 13.5K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran — 13K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul — 10.7K (pictured right)
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi — 9.3K
Shane “Shaniac” Schleger — 9.2K
Clark “snake8484″ Hamagami — 8.9K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg — 8K
Ryan “ryanbluf” Karp — 7.9K
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier — 7.4K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista — 7K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby — 6.1K
Pat “TorontoToro” Pezzin — 6.8K
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz — 5.3K
WSOP 2009 EVENT #44 $2.5K RAZZ
Event #44 is down to one table in the Green Section of the Amazon Room and both Allen “albari” Bari and Ryan “gotskillz” Fisler are still in the hunt.
The two were in a big pot with Al “Sugar Bear” Barbieri to start the day. The action was capped pre-flop and Bari got the remainder of his short stack all in on fourth street. Fisler and Barbieri continued the betting in a side pot through sixth street. Before seventh, the hands looked like this:
Bari: XX-3-4-A-8
Fisler: XX-2-8-7-Q
Barbieri: XX-6-3-Q-Q
The players were dealt a down card and Fisler led out for another bet. Barbieri showed aces up and unhappily mucked giving Ryan a side pot worth over 40K. Bari took the main pot with a perfect 8 low and tripled up to 120K. Fisler dropped a bit but gained some back to push above 300K.
