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Title: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on June 28, 2007, 07:52:09 AM Here we'll be posting gathered chip counts and information from the fast-paced short-handed NLHE event, which looks to have increased in popularity as a format dramatically since last year. Expect a record field, dotted with many a UK player. If you would like to ask about anyone or anything specific, or see our photos from this event, there is our Interactive Update found here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25110.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25110.0)
Play will start at Noon, Vegas time (8pm in the UK). 1st Amnon Filippi -- $4,015,000 2nd Freddy Deeb -- $3,500,000 3rd Kenny Tran -- $2,445,000 4th John Hanson -- $1,995,000 5th David Singer -- $1,330,000 6th Bruno Fitoussi -- $895,000 7th Barry Greenstein -- $750,000 8th Thor Hansen -- $40,000 Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 08:11:34 PM Ok, here's how today is going to work. Sadly this crossover of events coincided with us changing our hotel from the Gold Coast back to the Orleans.
So, I'm here and will be covering the $5,000 six-handed event, then when Jen and Snoopy arrive shortly. They'll take over that and I'll be watching the HORSE Final and reporting on the other thread which starts at 2pm, (10pm UK) Therefore, start opening up a few tabs! :D Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 08:41:00 PM This event is proving massively popular. So much so that people are still registering now.
Board: Jc 3c 6d Chips flying in... MB1: Jd 6s MB2: 6h 6c Turn: 8s River: Js Our first mateyboy squared moment of the WSOP 2007... Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 09:30:31 PM Scotty Nguyen folds after Johnny Chan check/raised his 500 bet to 2100 on an 8s 7d 4c 8c board.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 09:33:02 PM Pab isn't in his seat where I spotted him earlier and I've not been able to locate him since. Elsewhere I'm not sure JP has managed to get a seat yet, but the room is so huge we could easily have missed him.
The number of entrants for this event is reckoned to be close to 800. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on June 28, 2007, 09:53:32 PM The short-handed nature of this event has meant that it looks like a much larger field as so very many tables are needed to start it off - the giant Amazon room is heaving, and tables are breaking as fast as they are forming. Here are a couple of sets of tablemates:
Jennifer Harman Phil Laak Andreas Hagen Joe Beevers Jonas Molander (who just so happened to win his first tournament upon arriving in Vegas at the Bellagio, chopping with Iwan Jones for over $60k and going on to win heads up for the $25k WPT seat... nice start) William Thorsson Steve Zolotow Mark Vos And also spotted (in just one quarter of the main room): Humberto Brenes Andy Black Dave Colclough Kevin O'Connell Abel Meijberg Max Pescatori Jamie Gold Martin Wendt Johnny Lodden Chip Reese Barney Boatman Noah Boeken Tony G Per Ummer Stuart Fox Jeff Buffenbarger Joe Hachem JP Kelly Jeff Kimber Sorel Mizzi Justin Bonomo Arnaud Mattern And Many More (pictures of several on Interactive thread). Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: Djinn on June 28, 2007, 10:00:36 PM Found Dusk Til Dawn's Kevin O'Connell (there are a few DTD hats dotted around the room - also spotted DC and Mikka). He was just involved in a threeway pot, betting out 800 on the 9h 9s Kh flop. The button raised to 2,600 and the third player who'd initially checked folded. This left O'Connell to resignedly pass his Jh Jc face up...his chips now 6,450.
__________________________ Andy Black on the button bets 800 on an Aspades 5c 2s flop, gets check-called, and checks the following Ahrt and 7h, finding the small blind's 8c 8s to be good. __________________________ David Benyamine busts someone sharpish - empty seat and Benyamine stacking up his 17,100. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 10:04:57 PM Henning Granstad was facing a chunky 4k bet on the turn of 2d Jc 3s Qh board, he passed his Ad Jd face up and was shown 3h 3d in return.
El Blondie just took a pot down, he betting the river of a 6h 3s Qs 2c 6s board against two opponents, getting one caller and showing the Js Ts to put him back over the 10k starting stack. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 10:08:52 PM The HORSE final is about to start over at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25109.0
--------- Isn't that always the way, just as I pop back into the cardroom in search of hands and fascinating anecdotes, they all disperse for their 20 minute break. However, whilst they were leaving, I did catch David Daneshgar virtually all-in on Qh 9h 2d board, his 9c 9s miles ahead of his opponent's in-need-of-runners Qd 4d. But the runners failed to arrive and the popular young American doubles up to around 10k. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 28, 2007, 10:26:10 PM Beagle news from the break...
Jeff Kimber is up to 21k after, in his own words, "muppetting some guy with A-Q vs. A-K". It's not as bad it sounds though (maybe...) - Jeff raised it up to 300, a serial raiser made it 1,100 and Jeff pushed for his opponent's remaining 4. Ace high flop, runner runner heart. Ouch - if you're gonna muppet your opponent, muppet them in style. Jeff also added, "Patrick Antonius just sat next down to me, I can't think of anyone else I'd want to see less." Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 28, 2007, 10:47:58 PM A few chippy counts from the bottom left quadrant:
Phil Hellmuth -- 5.5k Michael Binger-- 24.1k Marco Traniello -- 22.7k Michael Mizrachi -- 11.3k Max Pescatori -- 13.8k Abel Meijberg -- 11.6k Kirk Morrison -- 12.7k Jeff Lisandro -- 8k Daniel Alaei -- 7.8k Erik Friberg -- 15.6k Mad Marty Wilson -- 5.6k Roland de Wolfe -- 17k Thomas Middelthon -- 21.5k Jamie Gold -- 20.1k Tex Barch -- 14.1k David Pham -- 25.2k David Daneshgar -- 11.8k Stephen Pearce -- 24.6k Steve Wong -- 13.3k BIll Gazes -- 11k Jason Lester -- 4.9k Brandon Shaeffer -- 12.3k Mark Seif -- 10.8k Age Spets -- 22.4k ----------- A dejected Marc Goodwin is OUT. He missed an opened ended flush draw with 5-6s after re-raising pre-flop. Mateyboy bet a tiny amount on the River, but Marc was forced to fold. Soon after, he ran Tens into Big Slick - "I just knew he was going to hit," he said in defeat. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 28, 2007, 11:08:15 PM Frenchman and former GSOP winner Arnaud Mattern is OUT, subsequently meaning that is massage was cut short.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 11:12:03 PM Patrick Antonius is OUT. He re-raised all-in with Ts 8s but found a caller with Ace Queen, which made a Broadway on the river.
"Why does he play these events?" asked one of the reporters, telling me yesterday after busting out of the Horse that he was playing on Full Tilt with $700,000 spread across 4 tables... Bumped into Barry Neville who said, "Fookin' 'ell, these young American kids are mad. This kid 'ere bets out on a Queen 'igh flop, 'nd this guy raises him, and kid move all in for t' whole stack with Q-5 and other guy calls wit' two pair! Fookin' 'ell." Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 11:13:29 PM Jeff Buffenbarger is OUT, backpack was on and he was walking away from the table...
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 28, 2007, 11:32:39 PM Thomas Wahlroos -- 11.7k
Jeff Cabinillas (sp?) -- 7.6k John Shipley -- 10.4k Alex Jacob -- 18.8k Jeff Madsen -- 12.2k Ted Forrest -- 6.5k Johnny Chan -- 7.3k Tobey Maguire -- 15k Players are now on a 20 minute break. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 28, 2007, 11:37:46 PM Per Ummer is OUT, K-Q on a Q-6-6 board vs Aces.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 12:07:43 AM Paul Gourlay is 9.8k. He's played a few hands, one of them being Aces where he got rivered by K-J, betting a Q-x-T-x board before slowing down on the Jack River. To be fair, his oppenent flopped an open ended straight draw.
Some British chip counts: Bullit Pete -- 8.8k Paul Gourlay -- 9.8k Andy Black -- 9.7k Dave Colclough -- 5.6k Devilfish -- 32k Chris Moorman -- 13.2k The top ten chip counts courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com, although Dave Ulliott should be in there... 1st Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $72,000 2nd Keith Lehr -- $54,000 3rd Jamie Gold -- $39,000 4th Tex Barch -- $31,000 5th John Kranyak -- $31,000 6th Ram Vaswani -- $30,750 7th David 'The Dragon' Pham -- $26,500 8th David Mitchell-Lolis -- $26,000 9th Phil Laak -- $25,500 10th Tony G -- $25,500 Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 12:18:11 AM The top ten chip counts courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com, although Dave Ulliott should be in there... 1st Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $72,000 2nd Keith Lehr -- $54,000 3rd Jamie Gold -- $39,000 4th Tex Barch -- $31,000 5th John Kranyak -- $31,000 6th Ram Vaswani -- $30,750 7th David 'The Dragon' Pham -- $26,500 8th David Mitchell-Lolis -- $26,000 9th Phil Laak -- $25,500 10th Tony G -- $25,500 Ram is now up to 55k whilst Johnny Lodden has 38k. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 12:20:02 AM John Gale is OUT, all in with Pocket Eights. Board T-T-3-9-5. Didn't catch opponent's hand.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 12:26:23 AM To give you some idea of how quickly the lineups are changing, here's Max Pescatori's table (Max in profile) and you can clearly see that when this was taken (a level ago) John Kabbaj was not two to his left. But he is now! And Kabbaj was being sneaky too, checking a K-K-7 board and then check/calling the Ten turn when Max bet. Another Ten came on the river and Kabbaj checked and Max checked behind him. Kabbaj cheekily showing K-Q. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 01:40:01 AM Last year's Main Event finalist Erik Friberg has just donked off 10k, his neighbour making a good call with A-3 on a Kc Ac 7d 2s Ks board. Friberg had J-To and wasn't too embarrassed about showing his failed bluff, which is refreshing.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 01:43:04 AM Last year's Main Event finalist Erik Friberg has just donked off 10k, his neighbour making a good call with A-3 on a Kc Ac 7d 2s Ks board. Friberg had J-To and wasn't too embarrassed about showing his failed bluff, which is refreshing.
---------- Sorel Mizzi -- 53,000 Joe Hachem -- 20,800 Jennifer Tilly -- 11.600 Clonie Gowan -- 19,500 Ted Lawson -- 38,700 ---------- Hoyt Corkins has just doubled up to 14,300 courtesy of Phil Laak, the unibomber calling an all-in re-raise with Pocket Eights. Hoyt had A-K, which went on to hit on a 4-A-4-7-5 rainbow(ish) board. Laak down to 26,400, but still running well. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 02:19:20 AM Nicolas Levi, has just doubled up with Ahrt Ks in the big blind vs Ac Qh in the small blind, he's up to almost 50k now, the small blind was left to state, "Everytime I have Ace Queen in the small blind, the big blind has Ace King."
Age Spets has doubled up his short stack with Aspades Th vs Howard Lederer's Qd 8c. Anna Wrobleski is OUT, she had Kh Jc on a Ks 7s Tc board, but opponent had 7h 7c. Jeff Kimber -- 60k Tobey Maguire -- 15k Annie Duke -- OUT Scotty Nguyen -- OUT Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 02:25:51 AM Isabelle Mercier has just doubled up, and boy did she enjoy it.
All-in for another 6k, her Queens were swiftly called by Sevens, provoking No Mercy into pleading, "No seven, dealer, not this time, no seven." Her opponent naturally requesting the contary, "Yes, seven please." Anyhow, the board was A-5-9-6-T and Mercier is now up to 23.5k after punching the air in delight. "Down to 1k, up to 20k, down to 1k, back up to fucking 20k," she added (or something similar) ------------- courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com 1st Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $87,000 2nd Emad Tatou -- $70,000 3rd Daniel Alaei -- $64,000 4th John Kranyak -- $59,000 5th Danny Wong -- $54,000 6th Dutch Boyd -- $52,000 7th Bill Edler -- $49,000 8th Erik Friberg -- $49,000 9th Tony G -- $48,000 10th Keith Lehr -- $47,000 Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 02:49:29 AM Two Europeans missing from action are John Duthie and Thomas Wahlroos. I can't confirm 100%, but John was wondering around aimlessly at the edge of the cardroom and Thomas's initial seat in now seating someone else.
------------ Jeff Kimber has climbed up to 65k. Meanwhile, Europe's Johan Storakers is adding vital chips to his stack, making a good 2.65k call (5k pot) with Nines on a 6d Jd Jc Ahrt 7s board. Mateyboy announces King high, and Johan scoops the pot, which gives him circa 25k in chips. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 02:50:20 AM JP has doubled up through Ram, he hit a 7d 5s 3d board fairly hard with 6s 4s against Ram's Tc Th with no runner runner coming for the Hendon Mob man.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 02:53:44 AM Henning Granstad is OUT. Sevens vs Kings.
------------ Amir Vahedi is going for the quantity not quality rule, lost of chips in front of him, but alas, only amounting to a paltry 8k. On another table, Carl Olsen (60k), who saw a 6s 7s 8c with two other youngsters, can only watch on (and fold) as Mateyboy1 bets 4k, Mateyboy2 raises to around 15k, and Mateyboy1 pushes for something like 25k. Shrugging his shoulders, Mateyboy two announces call and shows 8h 7d, pleasantly surprised to see his eager-to-hang-himself opponent flip over Js 9c. Turn = 2h River = 7h Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 03:38:55 AM Phil Hellmuth is not happy.
"Is he ever?" you cry. I didn't see the betting on the flop or turn, but 'ZeeJustin' bet 10.5k on the river of a 3d 7d Jd Ks Js board. Hellmuth called, and mucked when he was shown the Kd Jc for the boat. "So f**king sick," was Hellmuth's words, which, lets face it, isn't likely to make his 'Best Quotes' list. Shortly afterwards, he is in fulll Hellmuth dwell-mode. His opponent, who he had been trading some less than friendly banter with, put him in on the river of a Tc 2d 3s Aspades 4s board. Eventually he made the call and his opponent mucked straight away as Hellmuth showed Ahrt 8h. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 03:40:48 AM --------------- 90 minute dinner break ----------------
1st Jamie Gold -- $88,000 2nd Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $87,000 3rd Keith Lehr -- $80,000 4th Emad Tahtouh -- $70,000 5th Dutch Boyd -- $67,000 6th John Kranyak -- $59,000 7th Tony G -- $57,000 8th Daniel Alaei -- $53,800 9th Bill Edler -- $48,000 10th Howard Lederer -- $47,500 courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 03:50:12 AM From Dave Colclough's blog...
Quote Thursday June 28th Completely refreshed and raring to go, I turned up at The Rio early to help Brian Wilson host his ‘Talking Trash’ web-cast on worlseriesofpoker.com. The day got off to a very pleasant start with the humorous & entertaining company of both EPT god John Duthie and the absolutely gorgeous Lacey Jones. Unfortunately, when I sat down in the $5000 short handed NLH things took a turn for the worse. I still had great company in that I shared a table with Andy Black in top form. However, we had the absolutely tightest table in the room. On Tony G’s table next to me they lost 6 or 7 players in the first 4 hours. One guy amassed 50,000 chips (having started with 10k) and lost the lot during this period. On my table, nobody peaked above 16k! I was eventually the first casualty 30 minutes into the fifth hour. I bravely made a move from the BB with a pair and a flush draw but unfortunately ran into the button holding 2 pair. The flush didn’t materialise, and I was on my way. Bankroll -$16,600 IPOD favourite of the day… Atmosphere, Joy Division …. (did you know this was voted all-time No.1 in John Peel’s festive 50?) … once I start playing it, I just can’t stop… so I stuck it on my MYSPACE page. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 05:22:59 AM JP Kelly just pushed all-in pre-flop with Pocket Eights, and survived. Meanwhile, Ram Vaswani called a 4k bet with K-4 on a K-6-5-7-6 board and, unsurprisingly, won. He's up to 65k.
---------- Mark Teltscher is OUT. He lost most of his chips with J-9 vs. J-T on a Q-T-x Flop, before Jeff Kimber laid on the finishing touches with K-J vs. Q-3. "Another pathetic performance," added Teltscher as he left. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 05:48:17 AM Johnny Lodden is on about 70k, whilst Foxy has 90k. Phil Hellmuth is recovering a little, he's up to 30k. Thomas Middelthon is MIA.
First place incidentally is paying just over $900,000. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 05:53:29 AM Martin Wendt -- 13,000
JP Kelly -- 8,600 Jamie Gold -- 86,000 Bill Gazes -- 13,800 Michael Binger -- 20,200 Roland de Wolfe -- 55,800 Isabelle Mercier -- 40,800 David Daneshgar -- 47,500 Men Nguyen -- 116,900 Justin Bonomo -- 83,700 Steve Zolotow -- 13,300 Tobey Maguire -- 47,200 Joe Cassidy -- 28,300 Amir Vahedi -- 24,100 John Shipley -- 22,600 Tony G -- 67,600 Nicolas Levi -- 70,000 Mark Vos -- 53,400 Howard Lederer has around 40k after re-raising Alex Jacob's pre-flop raise of 2.1k to 12.1k. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 06:33:08 AM Allen Cunningham -- 68,200
Johnny Lodden -- 70,200 Joe Beevers -- 49,500 Michael Mizrachi -- 5,000 Sam Grizzle -- 60,000 Phil Laak -- 41,300 Stuart Fox -- 29,300 Hoyt Corkins -- 24,800 Erik Seidel -- 29,300 Carl Olsen -- 101,300 Erik Lindrgen -- 22,800 Ted Lawson -- 73,000 Vicky Coren -- 17,000 Scott Clements -- 74,500 Rory Matthews -- 18,200 Tore Lagerborg -- 28,800 Dutch Boyd -- 99,700 Dario Minieri -- 61,400 Sorel Mizzi -- 40,400 Daniel Alaei -- 33,200 huck Seed -- 43,400 Jeff Kimber -- 115,000 Johan Storakers -- 16,200 Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 07:08:56 AM Erik Friberg will be kicking himself, making an incorrect River call for a chunky 16k. The board read Jd Kd 3s Js Qc and his opponent held the monster hand of Qh Jh.
The Swede still has 75k though. ---------- worldseriesofpoker.com 1st Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $190,000 2nd Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo -- $107,000 3rd Dutch Boyd -- $97,000 4th Johnny Lodden -- $96,000 5th Erik Friberg -- $91,000 6th Tony G -- $80,000 7th Phil Galfond -- $80,000 8th Keith Lehr -- $80,000 9th Fred Goldberg -- $77,000 10th Jeff Shulman -- $71,000 Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 07:32:12 AM It is believed that both Stuart Fox and Erik Seidel have bitten the dust as both their seats are empty, although the latter is now filled by the hoodie wearing presence of Phil Laak.
Will have to confirm these exits though. --------- JP Kelly is OUT. A-Q vs. Kings. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 08:19:19 AM Mark Bartlog, who had 130k not too long again, is somehow down to 45k.
Looking around the table, those chips could well have sailed Dutch Boyd's way, as he is now up there with the chip leaders with 169k. ---------- Exciting stuff from Table Laak, involving the Laakster himself. Internet hotshot Carl Olsen bet 6.5k on a 6h 9s 8c Flop, Mateyboy smooth called and the Unibomber, after packing up his gear, popping on his backpack and rising from his seat, took a deep breath and pushed all-in. The animated performance drew a rye smile out of Olsen, who folded, but not Mateyboy, who was perhaps detecting a possible squeeze play. After a long delay, Mateyboy did indeed fold and Phil rejoined the game. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 08:45:38 AM A guy to Hellmuth's right decides to put his whole 80k-90k stack in preflop with Sixes.
Against Hellmuth's Aces. (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c245/RTidd/CurbYour.jpg) "Why would you do that?" Hellmuth close to being chip leader. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 08:48:31 AM Phil Laak is up to 100k after eliminating an opponent with Ahrt Th vs. Aspades 9c. 2s Qs Jd 4s 6h board.
Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 09:00:12 AM I just witnessed a cracking call from bracelet winner Scott Clement, his opponent moving all-in for around 35k on a board of 4d 5s Qh Th
Scott made an excellent with Ac Ts, Mateyboy churlishly showing Ahrt 5h. Js on the River and Bob's your uncle. Table's quite tough now: Tobey Maguire Erik Friberg Mark Vos Scott Clement Nicolas Levi Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 09:23:28 AM Johnny Lodden is OUT. A-Q raised, all-in from Beevers. Joe turns over Aces, Johnny dead meat.
"Do you ever lose a hand," asks one of the other players. Joe doesn't waste his breath responding. ------------ Top 10 chip counts: 1st Dutch Boyd -- $284,000 2nd Alex Prendes Jr. -- $225,000 3rd Ram Vaswani -- $185,000 4th Phil Hellmuth -- $180,000 5th Erik Friberg -- $175,000 6th Alex Brenes -- $170,000 7th Kush Patel -- $148,000 8th Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $144,000 9th Mark Vos -- $140,000 10th Nick Van Newkirk -- $135,000 worldseriesofpoker.com Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 09:40:19 AM Phil Laak is OUT.
Caught him in the hallway on the way out, he looked gutted. "Yep, I'm gone," he said dejectedly. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 09:48:05 AM Much hilarity has just ensued due to a highly intoxicated Thomas Wahlroos waltzing into the cardroom and demolishing Roland de Wolfe's 140k stack. Moments later, he trundled over to Phil Hellmuth's table and did exactly the same. He then buggered off. Whilst Roland look shocked, he was still smiling. Hellmuth, meanwhile, was livid, and raced over to Roland exclaiming, "Hey, Roland, what's up with your boy? Something needs to be done about him." With the bloggers giggling under their breath, Hellmuth then chased the TD and demanded action be taken. "It's not acceptable," he moaned. "He can't just come in here and do that! I was in the middle of a hand!" You have to laugh - Wahlroos eliminated the Poker Brat from the WPT Final, if my memory serves me right. I think this is the first time I have ever heard of someone demanding a penalty for someone in another comp. Good news, the clever men at pokernews.nl managed to get a funny interview with a slightly drunk Wahlroos and are putting up on Youtube in a short while. We'll post a link when we get it. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 29, 2007, 10:16:36 AM Play has ended for the day with 77 players still in.
Hellmuth still had time to take a pot down with a 13k bet on the river of a 3c 4c 6s 3c Tc board whilst Jamie Gold has a $700 massage bill to pay. We're now going to focus our energies on the end of the HORSE event. Title: Re: WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance Post by: snoopy1239 on June 29, 2007, 10:20:31 AM Just as they were bagging up, I managed to grab a few last minute chip counts:
Vicky Coren -- 29,200 Mark Bartlog -- 20,200 Dutch Boyd -- 285,000 David Daneshgar -- 94,400 Allen Cunningham -- 86,300 Toby Maguire -- 46,900 Roland de Wolfe -- 126,500 Joe Beevers -- 207,400 Ram Vaswani -- 158,200 Justin Bonomo -- 152,000 Tony G -- 67,000 Men Nguyen -- 61,000 Jamie Gold -- 70,000 |