WPT $25,000 Final: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Shane Schleger is OUT.

Kings into Aces, helpless 4-J-3-T-5 board.

Took it well, to his credit.

[Djinn]

Two tables' full counts, with only one identity gap as a player's been moved:

Alan Schein  92,050
Justin Young  63,900
Alex Jacob      6,575
David Pham    47,000
Joe Sebok      42,325

Bruce Corman  69,200
Alan Fixel         36,000
Matthew Davidson  44,350
Barry Greenstein  33,625

Ari Goott         65,200
Wayne Boich    45,900
Harry Noel         OUT  (Outdraw by Hellmuth - he had Aces vs. Phil's flopped top pair and gutshot.  The gutshot got him; Hellmuth, to be fair, ackowledged that he'd just lucked out)
Robert Barnes   57,600
Phil Hellmuth     60,150
Jason Lester     37,250
Andrew Micali    65,700
Cory Carroll       44,450
Chris King          48,800
John Myung      79,300

[snoopy1239]

David Williams -- 30k
Marcel Luske -- 63.5k
John Gale -- 22.5k
Jennifer Harman -- 48k
Phil Hellmuth -- 49k
Paul Alterman -- 56k
Joe Rafferty -- 54.5k
Dan Harrington -- 63.5k
David Sklansky -- 58k
Barry Greenstein -- 33k
David Pham -- 46.5k
Peter Haslam -- 68k
Ross Boatman -- 54.5k
Shane Schleger -- out
Jon Bonetti -- 60.5k
Blake Buffington -- 54.5k
Liz Lieu -- 51.5k
Shannon Shorr -- 94k
Johnny Lodden -- 74.5k
Ben Roberts -- 33k
Andy Black -- 57.5k
Sorel Mizzi -- 51k
Steve Zoine -- 70.5k
Alan Smurfit -- 41.5k
Barny Boatman -- 104k
Noah Boeken -- 47.5k
Martin Wendt -- 41.5k
Bruce Yamron -- 117k
Hoyt Corkins -- 82.5k
Martin de Kjniff -- 37k
Jamie Gold -- 85k
Dan Alspach -- 39k
Donnacha O'Dea -- 45.5k
Gavin Simms -- 50k
John Juanda -- 57k
Ram Vaswani -- 93.5k
Tuan Le -- 43.5k
Maureen Feduniak -- 74k
Terricta Evanowski -- 29k
Anders Osterstrom -- 42.5k
Joseph Simmons -- 46.5k
Eli Eslami -- 20.5k

[Djinn]

Chipcounts on Lodden, Kristian Kjøndal and Thor Hansen please.
Ty Ty, Great updates..

No worries, coming up soon.

Thor Hansen     72,800
Johnny Lodden  77,900
Kristian Kjøndal  in the other room (break in 5 mins not enough time to get there).
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And Irish Updates, seeing as they're all nicely nearby:

Padraig Parkinson  67,750  (don't let his self-deprecating sidetracking fool you, I reckon he's got as good a shot at this as anyone)
Andy Black          58,500
Joe Rafferty         44,750

[snoopy1239]

John Gale has doubled up. There was a raise to 700, a call and an all-in for 7 from John.

The original raiser folded but the caller swiftly shoved in a 10k chip.

A-Q v 8-8

K-6-6-Q-K board.

[snoopy1239]

Quick Brit check (and yes, I AM taking Black  )

Andy Black -- 58.5k
Gavin Simms -- 74k
Paul Alterman -- 58k
Barny Boatman -- 93.5k
Roland de Wolfe -- 49.5k
Ram Vaswani -- 55k
Peter Haslam -- 57k
Ross Boatman -- 69.5k
Marc Goodwin -- 129k
Ben Roberts -- 43k

[Djinn]

Early leader Anna Wrobleski has continued upwards - it looks like her stack is topping 160,000 at this point.  But with others like Goodwin getting up towards the 130k mark (I don't think there are any actually threatening to overtake yet) she can't just rest on her laurels.  She just called someone down, check calling the turn and river, when the board was King high, disjointed, with no flush possible.  The river call was around 6k, however, which she quickly announced she'd made with "Ace high."  , to be exact.  Which won - her opponent clearly didn't think that would be the hand to call his river bluff (he held Q-T).
She says, "Don't you hate it that I keep doing the right thing?  They said I was a calling station..."

[Djinn]

Counts from the Stage Table (it's on a stage - easy to assume it's Televised and out of bounds, while it's neither)

Peter Gould   82,000
Stuart Fox     35,500
Jani Sointula  66,300
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JJ Liu 34,000
Noah Boeken  44,300
Marcel Luske  58,000

[Djinn]

Vanessa Rousso is partly to blame for Erik Friberg's dwindling chips, saw this hand while passing...  Vanessa flat called (blinds 200/400) as did Paul Kraus, the small blind made up and big blind Friberg raised a further 1,600.  Vanessa called as did Paul.
Flop:    Erik bet out 4k, Vanessa flat called and the third player got out of the way.
Turn:     (I couldn't see what was bet here, so better not just make it up)
River:  check-check pretty fast and Vanessa showed the , insisting that her opponent's cards be shown.  I think there was some kind of A-x, where x was not, clearly, a Jack.

[snoopy1239]

Alex Jacob, who was shortstacked for most of the day, is now OUT.

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Greg Johnson is OUT

Tens v A-K

A-6-3-9-3 board

Billy Pilossoph the beneficiary.

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Looking around the room, John Pham has disappeared from the table right in front of us and I see no sign of Cyndy Violette, who tends to stand out in front of a crowd.

[Djinn]

Another break - when they get back the blinds will be 300/600 ante 75.

250 players remaining... one or two levels only left today - they're going for less of a marathon feel and more of a succession of gentle jogs.

[snoopy1239]

Chad Brown is OUT, moving all in with Queens on a , he ran into the Aces of Marc Goodwin which ultimately held up on the and Turn and River.

[snoopy1239]

Tom McEvoy -- 55k
Johnny Lodden -- 99k
Vanessa Rousso -- 94.5k
Kenna James -- 27k
Isaac Haxton -- 101.5k
Eric Friberg -- 4k
Robert Wazelle -- 51.5k
Rene Angelil -- 42k
Chad Brown -- 33k to out
Billy Pilossoph -- 119.5k
Eli Elezri -- 23.5k
John Myung -- 68k
Ari Goot -- 86k
John Shipley -- 71.5k
Captain Tom Franklin -- 52k
Jennifer Harman -- 53k
Paul Alterman -- 52k
Marc Goodwin -- 170.5k
John Gale -- 26.5k
Cliff Josephy -- 57.5k
Scott Fischman -- 16.5k
Christian Grundtvig -- 73.5k
Juha Helppi -- 80k
Rock Cloutier -- 52.5k
TJ Cloutier -- 27.5k
Kristy Gazes -- 82.5k

[Djinn]

Some others -

Padraig Parkinson  64,000 (saying he was doing 'less than us' which I could only assume meant 'working very hard, but not quite as hard as you.'  I was wrong; he meant nothing was happening, and as for his 60k+ - "I am good, I should have more than that."
Anna Wrobelski   182,000
Phil Ivey               42,400
David Sklansky       37,150
JJ Liu                   23,550
Roland de Wolfe    59,800
Marcel Luske        117,000
Jesse Jones           70,000
Pete Haslam          40,000
David Williams        17,225
Steve Zoine          89,000
Harry Demetriou    30,000
Johnny Lodden      100,000
Dan Harrington       72,400
Joe Rafferty           22,800
Ross Boatman        56,000
Alan Schein          127,000
Justin Young        110,000
Joe Sebok             92,500
Bruce Corman        75,250
Barry Greenstein     25,050

[snoopy1239]

John Juanda is OUT, all-in with versus on a board.

Rather emphatic on the Turn.

Academic River.