WPT $25,000 Final: Day 5 - Interactive

[Djinn]

David Levi is OUT in 13th place

He lost most of them (and there weren't all that many to start with) in a strange hand directly before, of which I caught the absolute tail end - a board of - he'd flipped over his thinking the other two players in the hand had checked to him, but that may not have been the case...in any event that pot didn't go to Levi and he was left with 60k to autoallin on the following hand:

Tim Phan raised preflop (+100K) successfully getting rid of big blind Wahlroos despite his chip mountain, and his took on all-in Levi's . 
Flop: 
Turn:    (at this point it seems to be traditional for the TD to tell the all in guy what his outs are, like he's not totally fixated on this already)
River: 

We're down to two tables of six...

[Djinn]

Although there was departing action on the other table, the following confrontation between Guy Laliberte, who has slipped under the radar somewhat today, and early pace setter Kirk Morrison probably comprised of more chips being shoved into the centre.

With the board reading , Guy bet 400,000, Kirk made it 900,000 and Guy moved all-in for 2,100,000.

Big pot, huh?

Anyhow, Kirk folded, but I was desperately praying for Guy to show a bluff, but it never appeared, the French-Canadian swiftly mucking his cards.

Incidentally, and according to Benjo, Guy is the richest man in the whole of Quebec

Yes, Guy Laliberte is the creator and mostly-owner of Cirque du Soleil.  There are five different Cirque shows in Las Vegas alone - you do the math.  While suspended in the air by your hair twirling a giant silver cube with your feet on fire.

Guy Lalliberte - pictured second from the left on the bottom.

[snoopy1239]

Guy Laliberte is on a roll now, winning yet another pot off Kirk Morrison with a 300k bet on a Flop of .

More importantly though, have a gander at Carlos Mortensen's wonderfully structured stack, two of the chips accidentally tumbling off the top of the tower and into the pot in a rather embarrassing moment that interrupted a high tension moment.

[snoopy1239]

Paul Lee raises to 300k from early position, Jimmy Tran announces all-in.

Lee folds Tens face up saying that "I'm probably folding the best hand", but taps the table when Tran reveals Pocket Queens.

"I don't want to play against a big stack," he claims.

[Royal Flush]

Carlos is a legend with his stacks, the amazing thing i found when sat next to him was how he knows his exact stack at all times as well!

[Djinn]

Jimmy Tran plays a pot out of position against Thomas Wahlroos, with bad consequences for his stack...
Big Blind Jimmy check-called Thomas' 200k bet on a flop.  The turn brought the , Jimmy checked again, and Thomas bet 400k (it doesn't look like so much when 100k is a stack of four chips rather than ten.  Obviously.)  Call once more.
River:    Check a third time - Thomas bets a third time - 600k.  A long pause before Jimmy Tran calls - paying off Wahlroos' with his two pair, Queens and Eights.

[snoopy1239]

Can Hua is OUT in vomit inducing circumstances.

All-in pre-on a Flop of .

Tim Phan =

Can Hua =

Turn =

River =

Pretty painful exit, but if someone had asked him pre-flop if he'd take a kick in the testicles for $154,705, then he probably would have braced himself and taken it like a man.

[Djinn]

Eleven players remaining, and the WPT TDs are guilty of my favourite tournament whinge-worthy decision - the uneven hand-for-hand.  If I were a short stack on the Five-handed table right now I would be screaming bloody murder.  A lady with a camera informed me that actually it slowed down the action, but in what context?  It still gives a disadvantage to a short stack on the small table where the now 30k/60k blinds come round faster, and an advantage to big stacks in general to play short handed - which they will only get until ten players remain.  The  other reason given for the hand-for-hand (not official, the TD looked busy) was that "When there's a big money jump, they go hand for hand.  There's a $30,000 jump in prize 11th to 10th."  Perhaps an anti-stalling device?  Would that happen in this tournament?  Hard to say.
I was then perhaps guilty of asking the dumbest question of the week, "So do they keep doing it after the eleventh player is eliminated? (The money jumps just get larger)"
"No.. because then they're on one table."
Of course they are.  I need another energy drink.

[snoopy1239]

Grant Lang is OUT.

Grant Lang =

Tim Phan -

Board =

Down to ten, and therefore our final table.

[Cupcake]

Go Tommy Vu !!!!!!!!!!.

[snoopy1239]

No messing around here, the final table is a go go.

[Djinn]

Final table seats and counts:

1) Kirk Morrison -- 1,700,000
2) Jimmy Tran -- 1,287,000
3) Thomas Wahlroos -- 7,186,000
4) Guy Laliberte -- 3,400,000
5) Carlos Mortensen -- 3,394,000
6) Mike Wattel -- 1,434,000
7) Scott Fischman -- 1,265,000
Paul Lee -- 8,994,000
9) Tommy Vu -- 1,083,000
10) Thien Phan -- 2,350,000

[snoopy1239]

Paul Lee raises it up pre-flop to 250k and receives calls from Tim Pham and Thomas Wahlroos.

Flop =

Lee bets out to take down a nice tidy pot.

[BigTomatoes]

 i hope fischmann has a shower and a shave if he makes it to the last 6.

 he looks like a ' hobo '

[Djinn]

Well, whatever you may think of Fischman's facial hair (which is tidy, actually - compare Snoopy for goodness' sake) he is certainly playing his million shorter stack (now that sounds odd) well - the pace of the action has slowed somewhat, he's taken one set of 30k/60k blinds down preflop as has Paul Lee, then he played this one against Jimmy Tran:

Jimmy raised under the gun to 170k, raised preflop by an in-position Fischman to 500k.  A consideration period later, call.
Flop:  Jimmy checked and Scott moved in, for what must have been around 800k.  Pass from Jimmy who showed A-Q.

Fischman nearer two million than one now.