WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Per Ummer is OUT, K-Q on a Q-6-6 board vs Aces.

[snoopy1239]

Paul Gourlay is 9.8k. He's played a few hands, one of them being Aces where he got rivered by K-J, betting a Q-x-T-x board before slowing down on the Jack River. To be fair, his oppenent flopped an open ended straight draw.

Some British chip counts:

Bullit Pete -- 8.8k
Paul Gourlay -- 9.8k
Andy Black -- 9.7k
Dave Colclough -- 5.6k
Devilfish -- 32k
Chris Moorman -- 13.2k


The top ten chip counts courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com, although Dave Ulliott should be in there...

1st  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $72,000
2nd  Keith Lehr -- $54,000
3rd  Jamie Gold -- $39,000
4th  Tex Barch -- $31,000
5th  John Kranyak -- $31,000
6th  Ram Vaswani -- $30,750
7th  David 'The Dragon' Pham -- $26,500
8th  David Mitchell-Lolis -- $26,000
9th  Phil Laak -- $25,500
10th Tony G -- $25,500

[NoflopsHomer]

The top ten chip counts courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com, although Dave Ulliott should be in there...

1st  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $72,000
2nd  Keith Lehr -- $54,000
3rd  Jamie Gold -- $39,000
4th  Tex Barch -- $31,000
5th  John Kranyak -- $31,000
6th  Ram Vaswani -- $30,750
7th  David 'The Dragon' Pham -- $26,500
8th  David Mitchell-Lolis -- $26,000
9th  Phil Laak -- $25,500
10th Tony G -- $25,500

Ram is now up to 55k whilst Johnny Lodden has 38k.

[snoopy1239]

John Gale is OUT, all in with Pocket Eights. Board T-T-3-9-5. Didn't catch opponent's hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

To give you some idea of how quickly the lineups are changing, here's Max Pescatori's table (Max in profile) and you can clearly see that when this was taken (a level ago) John Kabbaj was not two to his left.  But he is now! 

And Kabbaj was being sneaky too, checking a K-K-7 board and then check/calling the Ten turn when Max bet. Another Ten came on the river and Kabbaj checked and Max checked behind him. Kabbaj cheekily showing K-Q.

[snoopy1239]

Last year's Main Event finalist Erik Friberg has just donked off 10k, his neighbour making a good call with A-3 on a board. Friberg had J-To and wasn't too embarrassed about showing his failed bluff, which is refreshing.

[snoopy1239]

Last year's Main Event finalist Erik Friberg has just donked off 10k, his neighbour making a good call with A-3 on a board. Friberg had J-To and wasn't too embarrassed about showing his failed bluff, which is refreshing.

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Sorel Mizzi -- 53,000
Joe Hachem -- 20,800
Jennifer Tilly -- 11.600
Clonie Gowan -- 19,500
Ted Lawson -- 38,700

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Hoyt Corkins has just doubled up to 14,300 courtesy of Phil Laak, the unibomber calling an all-in re-raise with Pocket Eights. Hoyt had A-K, which went on to hit on a 4-A-4-7-5 rainbow(ish) board.

Laak down to 26,400, but still running well.

[NoflopsHomer]

Nicolas Levi, has just doubled up with in the big blind vs in the small blind, he's up to almost 50k now, the small blind was left to state, "Everytime I have Ace Queen in the small blind, the big blind has Ace King."

Age Spets has doubled up his short stack with vs Howard Lederer's .

Anna Wrobleski is OUT, she had on a board, but opponent had .

Jeff Kimber -- 60k
Tobey Maguire -- 15k
Annie Duke -- OUT
Scotty Nguyen -- OUT

[snoopy1239]

Isabelle Mercier has just doubled up, and boy did she enjoy it.

All-in for another 6k, her Queens were swiftly called by Sevens, provoking No Mercy into pleading, "No seven, dealer, not this time, no seven." Her opponent naturally requesting the contary, "Yes, seven please."

Anyhow, the board was A-5-9-6-T and Mercier is now up to 23.5k after punching the air in delight.

"Down to 1k, up to 20k, down to 1k, back up to fucking 20k," she added (or something similar)

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courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $87,000
2nd  Emad Tatou -- $70,000
3rd  Daniel Alaei -- $64,000
4th  John Kranyak -- $59,000
5th  Danny Wong -- $54,000
6th  Dutch Boyd -- $52,000
7th  Bill Edler -- $49,000
8th  Erik Friberg -- $49,000
9th  Tony G -- $48,000
10th  Keith Lehr -- $47,000

[snoopy1239]

Two Europeans missing from action are John Duthie and Thomas Wahlroos. I can't confirm 100%, but John was wondering around aimlessly at the edge of the cardroom and Thomas's initial seat in now seating someone else.

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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.

[NoflopsHomer]

JP has doubled up through Ram, he hit a board fairly hard with against Ram's with no runner runner coming for the Hendon Mob man.

[NoflopsHomer]

Henning Granstad is OUT. Sevens vs Kings.

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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' 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, he is in fulll Hellmuth dwell-mode. 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 .

[snoopy1239]

--------------- 90 minute dinner break ----------------

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

courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

[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.