WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - Interactive

[Wardonkey]

Is that from Snoopy's wardrobe?

[PeteL]

GL to pab JP and dave may the force be with you

[snoopy1239]

Jeff Kimber has climbed up to 65k.

Meanwhile, Europe's Johan Storakers is adding vital chips to his stack, making a good 2.65k call (5k pot) with Nines on a board.

Mateyboy announces King high, and Johan scoops the pot, which gives him circa 25k in chips.

[snoopy1239]

Amir Vahedi is going for the quantity not quality rule, lost of chips in front of him, but alas, only amounting to a paltry 8k.

On another table, Carl Olsen (60k), who saw a with two other youngsters, can only watch on (and fold) as Mateyboy1 bets 4k, Mateyboy2 raises to around 15k, and Mateyboy1 pushes for something like 25k. Shrugging his shoulders, Mateyboy two announces call and shows , pleasantly surprised to see his eager-to-hang-himself opponent flip over .

Turn =

River =

[NoflopsHomer]

Phil Hellmuth is not happy.

"Is he ever?" you cry.

I didn't see the betting on the flop or turn, but 'ZeeJustin' (pic 1) bet 10.5k on the river of a board. Hellmuth called, and mucked when he was shown the for the boat.

"So f**king sick," was Hellmuth's words, which, lets face it, isn't likely to make his 'Best Quotes' list.

Shortly afterwards, here he is in fulll Hellmuth dwell-mode (pic 2). His opponent, who he had been trading some less than friendly banter with, put him in on the river of a board. Eventually he made the call and his opponent mucked straight away as Hellmuth showed .

[NoflopsHomer]

GL to pab JP and dave may the force be with you

Pab and Dave are out we think.

[snoopy1239]

As I was collating chip counts, well, one (Daniel Alaei -- 55,200), all the players rose from their seats for the 90 minute break - grrrr!

Nevermind, I'll have a quick bite to eat, and brace myself for some post-dinner chip counts.

Whilst I'm stuffing tucker in my gob, take a gander at the top ten (name players only, I assume) courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Jamie Gold -- $88,000
2nd  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $87,000
3rd  Keith Lehr -- $80,000
4th  Emad Tahtouh -- $70,000
5th  Dutch Boyd -- $67,000
6th  John Kranyak -- $59,000
7th  Tony G -- $57,000
8th  Daniel Alaei -- $53,800
9th  Bill Edler -- $48,000
10th  Howard Lederer -- $47,500

[NoflopsHomer]

It's incredibly difficult to get all the chip counts correct, but here's someone who might have been missed from the top counts.

Dario Minieri with what looks like at least 55k.

[snoopy1239]

From Dave Colclough's blog...

Thursday June 28th
Completely refreshed and raring to go, I turned up at The Rio early to help Brian Wilson host his ‘Talking Trash’ web-cast on worlseriesofpoker.com. The day got off to a very pleasant start with the humorous & entertaining company of both EPT god John Duthie and the absolutely gorgeous Lacey Jones.
Unfortunately, when I sat down in the $5000 short handed NLH things took a turn for the worse. I still had great company in that I shared a table with Andy Black in top form. However, we had the absolutely tightest table in the room. On Tony G’s table next to me they lost 6 or 7 players in the first 4 hours. One guy amassed 50,000 chips (having started with 10k) and lost the lot during this period.
On my table, nobody peaked above 16k! I was eventually the first casualty 30 minutes into the fifth hour. I bravely made a move from the BB with a pair and a flush draw but unfortunately ran into the button holding 2 pair. The flush didn’t materialise, and I was on my way.
Bankroll   -$16,600
IPOD favourite of the day… Atmosphere, Joy Division …. (did you know this was voted all-time No.1 in John Peel’s festive 50?) … once I start playing it, I just can’t stop… so I stuck it on my MYSPACE page.

[snoopy1239]

Play is due to restart at 9pm (which is er... 8 hours behind you guys).

Where's my abacus when I need it!

[steels]

Do you have some chip counts on the norwegian guys?
Johnny Lodden, Åge Spets, Thomas Middelthon.

Ty, great updates as always.

[snoopy1239]

Stuart Fox is up there with the chip leaders (although I doubt the Americans still won't recognise him) with an incredible 95k. I just saw his pre-flop raise of 1.6k be raised to 4.6k by Mateyboy nextdoor. Then, suddenly, Mateyboy folds and the chips go to Stuart, so I can only assume that he mumbled all-in, which would have been at least 30k for Mateyboy. What the eck Foxy had is anyone's guess, but the mans on fire!

Meanwhile, Carl Olsen has sat down to his left, joining Erik Seidel as 2 of Foxy's 5 opponents.

[NoflopsHomer]

Do you have some chip counts on the norwegian guys?
Johnny Lodden, Åge Spets, Thomas Middelthon.

Ty, great updates as always.

Åge Spets went out just before the dinner break. He told me he lost a big pot earlier with A-K vs A-6 with a Six on the river, then he was always struggling and short.

[snoopy1239]

A quick Dutch Boyd observation. He sure has put on a bit of weight. I almost went up to him and grabbed his cheek.

Joking aside, he seems to be in top form today, right up their with the big boys with just over 70k.

[snoopy1239]

JP Kelly just pushed all-in pre-flop with Pocket Eights, and survived. Meanwhile, Ram Vaswani called a 4k bet with K-4 on a K-6-5-7-6 board and, unsurprisingly, won. He's up to 65k.