WSOP $1,500 NLH F/O, DAY 1: Live Update - Interactive

[bhoywonder]

Can i ask a silly ?

wot is an alternate?

i'll get my jacket

[Djinn]

There were 2126 runners for this, apparently... at least a quarter of the Room is now taken up with cash games, satellites etc. so we're playing Find the Moved Player - it's not surprising that they're just going for it - Isabelle apparently described this tourney as a "zoo."

Blinds are now 100/200 - so those who've failed to get off the starting blocks will be feeling their 1,500 is on the wrong side of chipped.

[snoopy1239]

TJ Cloutier -- 6,625
Bhupinder Kholi -- 12,300
Ian MacDonald -- 925
Sverre Sundbo -- 6,500
Allen Cunningham -- 3,200
Dave O'Callaghan -- 4,000

[Djinn]

Can i ask a silly ?

wot is an alternate?

i'll get my jacket

Not silly - pretty much unheard of in the UK - Alternates are the waiting list if a tourney is already max capacity, getting in when someone busts out.  That time is over, however, and the field is consuming itself at a great pace.

[Royal Flush]

Shootout News

Blondeite Roland de Wolfe has made the Final Table of the Shootout event!  And word is that he may be the newest Full Tilter...although no sign of him in the hospitality  suite.

His deal was annoucned pre WPT $25k event i believe.

[bhoywonder]

Can i ask a silly ?

wot is an alternate?

i'll get my jacket

Not silly - pretty much unheard of in the UK - Alternates are the waiting list if a tourney is already max capacity, getting in when someone busts out.  That time is over, however, and the field is consuming itself at a great pace.

so you can buy in even after the game has started??

after a bust out or 2..?

[Djinn]

And here's our all-singing all-dancing Scandie friend Sverre - nicely comfortable in chips, and celebrating his cash in the Shootout yesterday.  Another narrow TV miss for the Norwegian.

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[snoopy1239]

Two very tired faces...





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[Djinn]

Can i ask a silly ?

wot is an alternate?

i'll get my jacket

Not silly - pretty much unheard of in the UK - Alternates are the waiting list if a tourney is already max capacity, getting in when someone busts out.  That time is over, however, and the field is consuming itself at a great pace.

so you can buy in even after the game has started??

after a bust out or 2..?

Yep - you get a level (maybe two) to get in as early players drop...

[snoopy1239]

Doyle Brunson -- 3.7k
Barry Greenstein -- 5.8k

[Djinn]

Potentially too cool to make the 'Grumpy Pro' list, Juha Helppi attacks the frenzy that is the $1,500 tourney.

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[snoopy1239]

Film actor James Woods of 'Once Upon A Time In America' and 'Ghosts of Mississippi' fame was throwing a right wobbly earlier on.

He returned from the break to find his chips had been moved to another table. Woods had no idea where to look and spent quite a while trying to find his new seat. Meanwhile, the blinds had passed and Woods had lost a few chips from his already inferior stack - this is what really pissed him off.

Anyhow, he went off on one to the supervisors, f-ing and blinding in the process. Another wsop emplyee behind me simply said "Tough s**t, he was late".  Clearly a man of few words.

[Djinn]

One more before a chip run: 

Padraig Parkinson whom I saw winning his last hand before the break, quiet in comparison to a large percentage of the field...

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[snoopy1239]

Greg Raymer busted out early.

[snoopy1239]

Clonie Gowan -- 3,600
Chris Moneymaker -- 700
badpab -- 2,000
Sverre Sundbo -- 8,500
Mike Matusow -- 7,150

badpab did have 5k at one point but lost more than half of it being "too agressive"

Just caught Matusow betting 700 into a 5-Q-9 (two clubs) flop - opponents folded.