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

[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.

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Mark Teltscher is OUT. He lost most of his chips with J-9 vs. J-T on a Q-T-x Flop, before Jeff Kimber laid on the finishing touches with K-J vs. Q-3. "Another pathetic performance," added Teltscher as he left.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Lodden is on about 70k, whilst Foxy has 90k. Phil Hellmuth is recovering a little, he's up to 30k. Thomas Middelthon is MIA.

First place incidentally is paying just over $900,000.

[snoopy1239]

Martin Wendt -- 13,000
JP Kelly -- 8,600
Jamie Gold -- 86,000
Bill Gazes -- 13,800
Michael Binger -- 20,200
Roland de Wolfe -- 55,800
Isabelle Mercier -- 40,800
David Daneshgar -- 47,500
Men Nguyen -- 116,900
Justin Bonomo -- 83,700
Steve Zolotow -- 13,300
Tobey Maguire -- 47,200
Joe Cassidy -- 28,300
Amir Vahedi --  24,100
John Shipley -- 22,600
Tony G -- 67,600
Nicolas Levi -- 70,000
Mark Vos -- 53,400

Howard Lederer has around 40k after re-raising Alex Jacob's pre-flop raise of 2.1k to 12.1k.

[snoopy1239]

Allen Cunningham -- 68,200
Johnny Lodden -- 70,200
Joe Beevers -- 49,500
Michael Mizrachi -- 5,000
Sam Grizzle -- 60,000
Phil Laak -- 41,300
Stuart Fox -- 29,300
Hoyt Corkins -- 24,800
Erik Seidel -- 29,300
Carl Olsen -- 101,300
Erik Lindrgen -- 22,800
Ted Lawson -- 73,000
Vicky Coren -- 17,000
Scott Clements -- 74,500
Rory Matthews -- 18,200
Tore Lagerborg -- 28,800
Dutch Boyd -- 99,700
Dario Minieri -- 61,400
Sorel Mizzi -- 40,400
Daniel Alaei -- 33,200
huck Seed -- 43,400
Jeff Kimber -- 115,000
Johan Storakers -- 16,200

[snoopy1239]

Erik Friberg will be kicking himself, making an incorrect River call for a chunky 16k. The board read and his opponent held the monster hand of .

The Swede still has 75k though.

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1st  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $190,000
2nd  Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo -- $107,000
3rd  Dutch Boyd -- $97,000
4th  Johnny Lodden -- $96,000
5th  Erik Friberg -- $91,000
6th  Tony G -- $80,000
7th  Phil Galfond -- $80,000
8th  Keith Lehr -- $80,000
9th  Fred Goldberg -- $77,000
10th  Jeff Shulman -- $71,000

[snoopy1239]

It is believed that both Stuart Fox and Erik Seidel have bitten the dust as both their seats are empty, although the latter is now filled by the hoodie wearing presence of Phil Laak.

Will have to confirm these exits though.

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JP Kelly is OUT.

A-Q vs. Kings.

[snoopy1239]

Mark Bartlog, who had 130k not too long again, is somehow down to 45k.

Looking around the table, those chips could well have sailed Dutch Boyd's way, as he is now up there with the chip leaders with 169k.

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Exciting stuff from Table Laak, involving the Laakster himself.

Internet hotshot Carl Olsen bet 6.5k on a Flop, Mateyboy smooth called and the Unibomber, after packing up his gear, popping on his backpack and rising from his seat, took a deep breath and pushed all-in.

The animated performance drew a rye smile out of Olsen, who folded, but not Mateyboy, who was perhaps detecting a possible squeeze play.

After a long delay, Mateyboy did indeed fold and Phil rejoined the game.

[NoflopsHomer]

A guy to Hellmuth's right decides to put his whole 80k-90k stack in preflop with Sixes.

Against Hellmuth's Aces.



"Why would you do that?"

Hellmuth close to being chip leader.

[snoopy1239]

Phil Laak is up to 100k after eliminating an opponent with vs. . board.

[snoopy1239]

I just witnessed a cracking call from bracelet winner Scott Clement, his opponent moving all-in for around 35k on a board of

Scott made an excellent with , Mateyboy churlishly showing .

on the River and Bob's your uncle.

Table's quite tough now:

Tobey Maguire
Erik Friberg
Mark Vos
Scott Clement
Nicolas Levi

[snoopy1239]

Johnny Lodden is OUT. A-Q raised, all-in from Beevers. Joe turns over Aces, Johnny dead meat.

"Do you ever lose a hand," asks one of the other players.

Joe doesn't waste his breath responding.

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Top 10 chip counts:

1st  Dutch Boyd -- $284,000
2nd  Alex Prendes Jr. -- $225,000
3rd  Ram Vaswani -- $185,000
4th  Phil Hellmuth -- $180,000
5th  Erik Friberg -- $175,000
6th  Alex Brenes -- $170,000
7th  Kush Patel -- $148,000
8th  Men 'The Master' Nguyen -- $144,000
9th  Mark Vos -- $140,000
10th  Nick Van Newkirk -- $135,000

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[snoopy1239]

Phil Laak is OUT.

Caught him in the hallway on the way out, he looked gutted.

"Yep, I'm gone," he said dejectedly.

[NoflopsHomer]

Much hilarity has just ensued due to a highly intoxicated Thomas Wahlroos waltzing into the cardroom and demolishing Roland de Wolfe's 140k stack. Moments later, he trundled over to Phil Hellmuth's table and did exactly the same. He then buggered off.

Whilst Roland look shocked, he was still smiling. Hellmuth, meanwhile, was livid, and raced over to Roland exclaiming, "Hey, Roland, what's up with your boy? Something needs to be done about him."

With the bloggers giggling under their breath, Hellmuth then chased the TD and demanded action be taken. "It's not acceptable," he moaned. "He can't just come in here and do that! I was in the middle of a hand!"

You have to laugh - Wahlroos eliminated the Poker Brat from the WPT Final, if my memory serves me right.

I think this is the first time I have ever heard of someone demanding a penalty for someone in another comp.

Good news, the clever men at pokernews.nl managed to get a funny interview with a slightly drunk Wahlroos and are putting up on Youtube in a short while. We'll post a link when we get it.

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has ended for the day with 77 players still in.

Hellmuth still had time to take a pot down with a 13k bet on the river of a board whilst Jamie Gold has a $700 massage bill to pay.

We're now going to focus our energies on the end of the HORSE event.

[snoopy1239]

Just as they were bagging up, I managed to grab a few last minute chip counts:

Vicky Coren -- 29,200
Mark Bartlog -- 20,200
Dutch Boyd -- 285,000
David Daneshgar -- 94,400
Allen Cunningham -- 86,300
Toby Maguire -- 46,900
Roland de Wolfe -- 126,500
Joe Beevers -- 207,400
Ram Vaswani -- 158,200
Justin Bonomo -- 152,000
Tony G -- 67,000
Men Nguyen -- 61,000
Jamie Gold -- 70,000