WSOP Main Event 2006 - Day 1c - At A Glance

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Play has started on time

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Okay, let's do this by quadrants.

For some reason, there always seem to be few 'name' players in the bottom left hand quadrant - maybe coincidence, who knows.

Anyway, players spotted in this section include:

Sverre Sundbo
Vicky Coren
Kerry Taylor
Anders Berg
Joe Beevers
Paul Parker
Phil Gordon
Isabelle Mercier (I think)

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Spotted in the bottom right quadrant:

Trevor Reardon
Simon Trumper
Kevin Moore
Brian Wilson
Harry Demetriou
Phil Laak
Mark Seif
Dale
Julian Thew
Anontio Esfandiari
Jennifer Harman

And, making his presence felt on the the TV table, Ben Grundy.

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Just spoke to Simon Trumper who seems confident, and most importantly perhaps, comfortable with his table. All pretty soft apparantly, except for the guy to his right, but Simon is using this to his advantage.

Simon even used his skill of detecting tells to take a hand of the only decent player on his table.

Simon limped with 6-7 and missed the flop completely - everyone checked.

The turn brought a 7, and three clubs.

Mateyboy to his right looked at his cards (checking to see if he had a club according to Trumper) and then bet out. Simon called, intending to bet the river if Mateyboy missed.

The river was a blank, and MB made what Simon described as a hesitant bet. Simon therefore stuck in a raise (thinking MB had a bigger pair). MB folded and Simon took the pot.

He appears to be in very good spirits indeed.

He informed me that he spoke to Peter Costa and they agreed that the best strategy was to keep the pots small and try to outplay their opponents. Of course, with big pots, comes the bigger influence of luck. I think I'd have to agree with this approach. Unless you hit a monster, keep the pots small and build your stack gradually.

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And in quadrant 3 we have:

Matt 'Matt674' Doyle
Steve Vladar
Dan Samson
Steve Jelinek
Greg Raymer
Lee CLifford
Paul Barker
Bruno Fitoussi
Liz Lieu (sp?)

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The final quadrant at the top right was rising for a break when I approached, but I did managed to spot TJ Cloutier, Daniel Negreanu, Neil Channing, and David O'Callaghan.

Talking of Irishman David O'Callaghan, he's down to 6.5k after flopping a set of Queens.

He raised preflop, found two callers.

Flop came Queen high with two diamonds.

MB bet 250, Dave made it 1,000 and MB called.

A third diamon fell on the turn, both checked, but David faced a value bet on the river with King and Ten of diamonds that he eventually paid off.

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Day 1b chip counts:

Hossein Tagh Avi -- 229,125
Wesley Wilburn -- 122,200
Alex Minislow -- 94,350
Cory Butler -- 90,250
Edward Brogdon -- 90,200
Laro Bonding -- 88,600
Adam Sweet -- 86,250
Theo Tran -- 82,950
Magnus Petersson -- 82,575
David Chiu -- 78,225

Others:

Allen Cunningham -- 77,625
Akshay 'ActionAxe' Kumar -- 70,125
Andrew 'AndrewT' Tracey -- 53,425
Mickey Appleman -- 39,250
Men Nguyen -- 36,100
Micahel Greco -- 35,025
Kevin Daly -- 34,775
Jeff Madsen -- 33,300
Humberto Brenes -- 29,175
Ken 'KPNuts' Powell -- 28,850
John Exley -- 27,32
Annie Duke -- 26,725
Mike Caro -- 22,925
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson -- 20,200

1a & 1b combined chipcounts:

Hossein Tagh Avi -- 229,125
Fran Cipriano -- 123,200
Wesley Wilburn -- 122,200
Ken Jacobs -- 119,106
Paul McCaffrey -- 110,650
John Kincaid -- 107,500
Joe Fuhriman -- 98,250
George Lopez -- 98,125
Alex Minislow -- 94,350
Mike Erstling -- 94,075
Sean Le -- 94,050
Paul Kitsos -- 92,850
WeiKai Chang -- 92,575
Cory Butler -- 90,250
Edward Brogdon -- 90,200
Laro Bonding -- 88,600
Adam Sweet -- 86,250
Paramjit Gill -- 85,650
Mark Vos -- 85,375
Jeffrey Lisandro -- 85,025

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It looks as though Sam Farha left us before the break.

I am reliably informed that he ran a turned full house (set of nines on the flop) into quad sixes.

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It appears as though Liz Lieu is also OUT.

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TJ Cloutier is up to around the 20k mark after cracking Aces twice with K-K, and then again with Q-Q

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Dale -- 13,925
Antonio Esfandiari -- 7,425
Harry Demetriou -- 9,575
Trevor Reardon -- 9,500
Bhupinder Kohli -- 9,375
Phil Laak -- 3,725
Brian Wilson -- 9,375
Nick Gibson -- 8,150
Simon Trumper -- 5,275

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Brian Wilson pushes all his chips in after flopping a Browadway straight.

Opponent had the same hand.

Split pot.

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Just caught Nick Gibson check raising (initial raise was 600) Mateyboy to 2,000

Mateyboy folded on a board and Nick too the pot.

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Dan Samson -- 9,875
Stuart Nash -- 8,600
Steve Jelinek -- 9,000
Dubai -- 9,650
Greg Raymer -- 5,700
John Gale -- 10,600
Lee Clifford -- 8,250
Paul Barker -- 10,900
Matt Doyle -- 7,770