WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 2 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Tony G has doubled through Dutch Boyd with vs

"I'll have all your chips and you'll be out in ten minutes!" shouts Tony.

"You're the loudest, luckiest donkey here," replies the the man in the heardscarf.

"Better than being the loudest, unluckiest donkey though."

[NoflopsHomer]

The chip leader is, we think, Alex Bolotin but we've been kicked out of the tournament area by one of those ambitious interns who love to wield authority like a giant club. The tournament director types are top people and really help us out, but these young guys seem desperate to make a name for themselves.

Anyway, he flopped a flush with against Bill Edler's on a board to double up, before knocking out Rene Mouritsen with vs on a board. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf passed Ace Queen in this hand.

Bill Edler has since doubled up with against the of Bill Gazes, the being the first card out with the rest of the board coming

[snoopy1239]

Bill Gazes is OUT. No hand details.

Latest chip counts courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com, although Dutch has sightly more now.

1st  Alex Bolotin -- $1,200,000
2nd  Dutch Boyd -- $680,000
3rd  Greg Pohler -- $676,000
4th  Phil Galfond -- $510,000
5th  Gioi Luong -- $480,000
6th  Raj Sawant -- $460,000
7th  Emil Patel -- $350,000
8th  Thierry van den Berg -- $340,000
9th  Ram Vaswani -- $335,000
10th Erik Friberg -- $335,000

[snoopy1239]

While Alex Bolatin continues to stretch his lead, Dutch Boyd is ensuring remains in touching distance, Lance Allred being the player to suffer.

Raising pre-flop to 60k, Allred was called one set along by Boyd.

Flop =

All the chips fly in.

Lance =

Dutch =

Turn =

River =

Lance Allred OUT.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tony G has doubled through Keith Lehr with against on a board. No major histrionics this time, just a quiet "Yessssssssssssss" like a 5-year old imagining scoring the winning FA cup final goal.

Alex Bolotin has increased his chip stack to over 1.6 million having taken out Phil Galfond with against . The board coming .

[snoopy1239]

Keith Lehr is OUT.

Shortstacked, he made his move for 130k but, to his surprise was picked off by the of Erik Friberg in the big blind.

Seemingly aware of his fate, Lehr flipped over and watched helplessly as the dealer threw down a board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Keith Lehr's exit in 15th was hot on the heels of Dustin 'Neverwin' Woolf who departed in 16th place.

Sadly Ram Vaswani is also OUT. His A-5 failing to hit against the Jacks of the catching megastack of Alex Bolotin, I'm not sure the $27k for 14th place will be much consolation.

And with the exit of Raja Katamuri in 13th, we are down to two tables.

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"There are 12 players left," announces the TD. "When we are down to 7, we'll move to one table, at which point, we'll be after just one more exit for the end of play"

Then came a series of tight plays, before someone eventually cracked, lowly chipped Danny Noam pushing with , but being called down by Thierry Van Den Berg and his Pocket Tens.

Board =

[NoflopsHomer]

We are down to nine, due to a seemingly inexplicable push from Rajendrakuma Sawat who moved in from the small blind for 500k with against Alex Bolotin who called quickly with in the big blind.

Board:



All players now guaranteed $58k.

[snoopy1239]

Tony G is OUT.

All-in with A-J v A-8.

8 on Turn.

Said well done and left quietly.

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Current chip counts courtesy of the good people at worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Alex Bolotin -- $2,830,000
2nd  Dutch Boyd -- $800,000
3rd  Emil Patel -- $750,000
4th  Gioi Luong -- $740,000
5th  Thierry van den Berg -- $660,000
6th  Erik Friberg -- $550,000
7th  Greg Pohler -- $370,000
8th  Bill Edler -- $330,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Two more down, first David Daneshear Sevens fell to Bill Edler's Aces, leaving eight left. Then the one man wrecking crew that is Alex Bolotin (who has played the big stack really well, plus has the added bonus of showing a hand every time it's needed) took out Emil Patel with Jacks against Nines, Patel having lost a fair amount previously when he doubled up a shortish Dutch Boyd with A-4 against Tens. Alex has an absolutely huge chip lead now, his stack is roughly 3.5 million

We are now on 1 table, playing seven handed with one exit required for the night to end.

[NoflopsHomer]

15 minute, but when we come back, the blinds will be 20k/40k with a 5k ante, meaning 95k in preflop, some of these guys only have 600k - 700k so we'll be done in the next level I reckon.

[NoflopsHomer]

Erik Friberg has doubled through Alex Bolotin, his held against the on a board with the turn and river coming and .

[snoopy1239]

Erik Friberg has doubled through Alex Bolotin, his held against the on a board with the turn and river coming and .

Eerily, Erik Friberg has doubled up yet again, and it's courtesy of the young American... yet again.

This time Friberg raised from the cut-off, American re-raised, Friberg pushed all-in and Bolotin crowd.

"Yes," cheer the Scandinavian onlookers as Friberg shows Aces, the Frenchman is deep doggy doo wiith A-K.

Harmless T-2-6-7-J Flop and it was done and dusted, Bolotin knocked down to around 2 million in just two hands.

[NoflopsHomer]

Erik Friberg raises in the small blind, Thierry Van Den Berg pushes in the big. Erik calls.

Erik:



Thierry:



A look of horror and disgust on Thierry's face as he begins to plead with the dealer for a five.

Board:



So Thierry Van Den Berg is OUT in 7th place winning $83,145

The final six are bagging up now. The final starts at 2pm tomorrow (10pm UK) but we aren't sure if they'll show it live or on a feed here with a 1 hour delay. Either way, tomorrow's team will be Jen and myself with the beagle getting a well-deserved nap.

Until then.