Wolpert Keeps Building
by Jessica on 06.02.08, 8:54 pm
Leo Wolpert (pictured at right) got his 600 chips back plus a little extra when he busted Craig Gray in a coin flip situation. He now sits at around 25k. Dan “Stainley88″ Adams’ chip stack has been heading in the opposite direction and he is down to 3k.
The prize pool and payouts were announced after players returned from a short break. A total of 713 players entered Event #3 and the top 77 will get paid. 1st place will be taking home $214,131.
A third event is getting underway today. Event #4 is a $5k mixed limit hold em event and is also the first evening event of this year’s world series. Several players who busted out of Event #3 earlier today are going to be taking advantage of the late start and playing. Some of those players include Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, Joe Sebok, Eric “Rizen” Lynch, and last night’s Event #1 runner-up, Andy Bloch.
Now that Event #2 is into the money action has rapidly picked up. Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg, Mike “SirWatts” Wattel, Antuan “bigboybunk” Bunkley, Bobby “Pupkin” Crosby and Matt “All In At 420″ Stout were all eliminated in the last level. Stout got his money in preflop with AQ against an opponent’s AK and failed to improve on a board of K
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Several P5ers are among the 240 players still alive, including Shane Scheleger (100K), Stuart “The Donator” Patterson (95K), Dom “piscopo2911″ Cuzzi (30K) and Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck (10K). Mayrinck claims she’s on “monkey tilt” but hopefully the recent 20-minute break has cured it.
