Vengrin Keeping Busy, 1K down to 27 players
by Rachel on 06.02.09, 8:16 pm
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured at left) has been shuffled from one tough seat to another in the Brasilia Room. Vengrin, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event today, was recently moved from a table with Jordan Morgan and Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista to the seat directly to Justin’s Bonomo’s right.
He has nevertheless been active at his new table. With the blinds at 100/200, Vengrin raised to 400 and Bonomo called. The player in seat five then moved in for 1,850 more. Vengrin just called and Bonomo went into the tank. While he was thinking, Vengrin motioned to his left and told us, “It’s Justin Bonomo,” in an hushed, excited tone.
Bonomo barely smiled and continued to think prompting Vengrin to tell us, “I think he has tens.” Eventually Bonomo folded and Vengrin showed his A
Q while his the all-in player had K
J. Vengrin warned the player he is lucky before they saw the board. The flop was J
32 giving his opponent the lead, but, true to his word, Vengrin hit a lucky Q on the turn. The river was the 4
, and Vengrin raked in the pot.
In another hand, Vengrin called an 800-chip bet on the turn with a board of Q72T. The river was the 7 and his opponent checked. Vengrin bet 1575 and the other player called immediately. Vengrin showed his pocket jacks, but they couldn’t beat the pocket aces of his opponent.
A few hands later action was folded around to Vengrin and Bonomo in the blinds. Vengrin just called 200. Bonomo raised 400 more and Vengrin reached for a big stack of black, 100 chips and made another raise to 1,600 more. Again Bonomo thought for a while before folding.
Nate “natewachtel11″ Wachtel is seated at the same table. We haven’t caught him in a hand yet, but he has 17.5K right now.
Batista was moved to a table with Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg and Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, but his seat has been filled since we saw the following hand take place.
Four players saw a flop of K33. The first player to act checked and Batista bet 350. The two other players in the pot folded and the original checker threw in a yellow, 1000 chip to call. Batista thought the other player had raised and quickly mucked his cards. The dealer explained that the other player had just called, and Batista simply acknowledged his error. The pot was shipped to the other player who looked a little disgusted when he showed the table a three, for flopped trips, before mucking.
Over in the Amazon Room, Frank “Round42″ Rusnak (pictured at right) made a move and subsequently doubled up two hands before the second break. With blinds at 100/200, a player in middle position raised to 600 and the cutoff called. Rusnak moved all in for 4K total and the original raiser called. The other player folded and hands were revealed:
Rusnak: 22
Opponent: AJ
The flop ended things rather quickly: 322. Rusnak flopped the nuts, and the K and 4 changed nothing as he increased his stack to 9K at the break.
Chip counts:
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 26K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 15.4K
Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton - 14K
Frank “Frank1The1Tank” Calo - 12K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 12K
Neil “puggy82″ Stewert - 11.5K
Court Harrington - 10K
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 7K
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 6K
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 5.5K
Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle - 4.2K
Shaun Deeb - 4K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch -3.5K
Adnan “nanq” Queshi - 3.5K
WSOP EVENT #3: $1K NLHE
Amanda “Mandy_B” Baker (pictured at left) and Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar clashed over in the $1K NLHE event. Aguiar recently doubled through Baker and we caught up with them again when Jon opened the action from the button with blinds at 6K/12K ante 2K to 38K and Mandy re-raised 110K more from the small blind. Aguiar then 4-bet to 240K total, leaving around 220K behind and Baker folded. After the hand Aguiar was up to 625K while Baker took another hit to her stack. Baker busted a little while later when she ran her pocket queens into the pocket aces of Jeff Oakes.
A couple of other P5ers took big hits during the last level. We missed a lot of the action, but we did catch the tail end of a hand in which Brent “Atrolux85″ Roberts and his opponent checked the turn of a board reading 10-10-5-5. Brent moved all-in from the small blind when a king fell on the river and the other player quickly called from the button and showed pocket aces. Roberts mucked his hand, and he shipped all but 210K of his chips to the other player.
Jack “doctor_fun” Powell sent most of his chips Steve Sung’s way when the two players got it all-in preflop in the classic race situation: Powell’s AK versus Sung’s QQ. The flop gave Powell little hope to improve when it came down {qc]94 and the 7 on the turn and 3 on the river resulted in a pot with over one million chips in it going to Sung.
Powell was left with only 100K or so after the hand and immediately moved all-in from under the gun on the following hand. With the blinds at 10K/20K ante 3K, the big blind felt obligated to call with the less than impressive holding of 3T. Powell had the advantage for the moment with his J8, but the 632 flop paired his opponent and Jack needed to spike one of his overs if he had any hope of doubling up. The turn was a meaningless A and the T on the river gave the other player two pair and sent Powell packing.
There are now 27 players remaining and they will redraw for the final three tables, which will play out in the Amazon Room, as opposed to Brasilia where action has been taking place so far today. Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong (1.1 mil), Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (500K), and Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts (150K) are still in the field. Play will continue until nine players remain before the players will be sent on a one hour dinner break.
