WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 2 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

We're back and play is about to start.

Plenty of stars, including a handful of Brits, still in, so this one should be a hoot!

Dutch Boyd   285900
Keith Lehr   252300
Nick Van Newkirk   240700
Mikko Pispala   239000
Phil Hellmuth   209400
Joe Beevers   207400
Mark Vos   205400
Raj Sawant   197200
Phil Galfond   189600
Gioi Luong   171000
Erik Friberg   166600
Lance Allred   163300
Michael Hewitt   159100
Ram Vaswani   158300
Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo   150200
Joe McGowan   148100
Francois Balmigere   146500
Alex Bolotin   128600
Roland de Wolfe   128500
Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf   123200
Sam Grizzle   120000
Nick Schulman   112600
Danny Noam   104900
Mike Guttmann   103600
Raja Kattamuri   102200
Eugene Katchatov   97600
Greg Pohler   94600
David Daneshear   94400
Kush Patel   93100
Allen Cunningham   86600
Vandy Krouch   85600
Robert Bright   84700
Jamie Gold   84000
Levi Nicolas   83600
Kyle Bowker   80200
Bill Edler   78200
Stephen Deetz   76400
Axel Holm   73900
Frank Bluemlein   73600
Bill Gazes   73300
Nestor Martinez   73300
Michael Eriksen   72600
Doug Timmer   72200
Thierry Van Den Berg   71800
Robert Glenn   71600
Aaron Been   71000
Matt Brady   70600
Gary Philipchuk   68900
Alex Prendes Jr.   68800
Tony G   67900
Morgan Machina   67200
Dan Santoro   66400
Ted McCollom Jr.   64900
Christian Oman   62200
Men "The Master" Nguyen   60600
Greg Pierson   56800
John Racener   54900
Tony Hachem   54600
Mark Muchnik   53800
Emil Patel   51200
Rene Mouritsen   49300
Tobey Maguire   46900
Jeff Madsen   42100
Scott Clements   40200
Jonas Flug-Entin   40100
Jordan Smith   38700
James Pittman   32300
Victoria Coren   29200
Carboni Emanuele   27200
Ezra Teitelbaum   22700
Jim Rumptz   21900
Mark Bartlog   20200
Gary Horn   19700
Jeff Aiani   16600
Chris McCormack   14000
William McMahan   12100
Johan Storakers   4500

[NoflopsHomer]

If you were reading last night, you'll remember the funny story of Thomas Wahlroos coming along to knock Roland De Wolfe's chips and then deciding to knock over all Hellmuth's chips too sending the Poker Brat into a frenzy wanting Wahlroos banned from the tournaments...

Wahlroos seems slightly unrepentant..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vqGENkVpHV0

[snoopy1239]

We've lost two men (well, one woman) already, the first of which was Spiderman star Tobey Maguire, whose all-in with Pocket Nines ran into the Pocket Cowboys of Frenchman come Londoner Nicolas Levi.

A painfully mischievous  x-9-x-K-x board later, Maguire was gone leaving the superhero count at zero.

Also joining us on the rail in Vicky Coren, who decided to limp with after two other players limped. "Perhaps I should have pushed," she later pondered.

Anyhow, the Flop came with two diamonds, but, unfortunately for the London EPT winner, the blind had and both players made a flush.

[NoflopsHomer]

We've lost two men (well, one woman) already, the first of which was Spiderman star Tobey Maguire, whose all-in with Pocket Nines ran into the Pocket Cowboys of Frenchman come Londoner Nicolas Levi.

A painfully mischievous  x-9-x-K-x board later, Maguire was gone leaving the superhero count at zero.

And Levi is OUT now too.
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Aussie Mark Vos (pic 1, the ginger one in the middle) raised the button, Nicolas pushed all-in with and Mark insta-called with and although he completely winced at the turn of the board, the river was an to send Levi home.

No miracle arrived and Levi was sent packing and left to ponder his all-in overbet.

"I had to make a stance at some point. The raise was only 10k, so I haven't got a great ratio to push for 90k, but I can't let him push me around," he suggested. "If he'd have folded, it would have been great for my table image, but it wasn't to be."

Shortly afterwards we lose the next guy to sit in Levi's seat,he pushed with against the big blinds , the latter holding on the board.

[snoopy1239]

Two empty seats have emerged, one belonged to Jordan Smith, the other Eugene Katchatov, both of whom I can only assume are OUT.

[NoflopsHomer]

10 minute break.

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Leaning over the rail like an out-of-control Take That fan, I grab a quick analysis of Ram Vaswani's stack, which has now inexplicably jumped up to 235k. I say inexplicably because Ram was involved in no huge pot.

Aware that the reserved Hendon Mobber isn't a massive fan of gibbering on about hands and revealing all his secrets through blogs, I tried to prise some info out of him or maybe, at the very least, a quote or two.

"You don't give away much, Ram," I poked. "Come on, give us a scoop, how did you get them chips?"

"No major pots really, a few medium sized ones," he replied. "Put it this way, I didn't have to show any cards, just the way I like it."

As he left to enjoy his brief break, the TD coloured up his chips so that he now possessed some sparkling orange ones worth 5k, he added, "The future's bright..."

"The futures blonde?" said I.

[snoopy1239]

Multi accounter Justin 'ZeeJustin' Bonomo is OUT, pushing in pre-flop with J-3, but getting looked up by the rather dominating A-J of Danny Noam. No help.

[NoflopsHomer]

Men the Master and last year's winner Jeff Madsen are both OUT.

Roland De Wolfe just lost a huge chunk of chips I think running into an overpair. He's short now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Roland De Wolfe is OUT, he pushed his short stack in and was called by both blinds.

Flop:



The small blind moves in. The big blind folds.

Roland:



Small blind:



Blanks on the turn and river send him out.

Also gone is Jamie Gold, I've never seen him live before, but the guy swears all the time, f-ing and blinding whenever he's behind or loses a pot. Certainly not a classy WSOP ME champion. He went out with to .

[snoopy1239]

The current top 10 according to worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Mark Vos -- $380,000
2nd  Danny Noam -- $340,000
3rd  Raja Kattamuri -- $315,000
4th  Dutch Boyd -- $300,000
5th  Keith Lehr -- $270,000
6th  Mikko Pispala -- $250,000
7th  Bill Edler -- $245,000
8th  Nick Van Newkirk -- $240,700
9th  Ram Vaswani -- $240,000
10th  Erik Friberg -- $235,000

[NoflopsHomer]

43 left.

[snoopy1239]

Sam Grizzle is OUT, all-in with K-9 vs. 5-5 on a 2-7-J-J, 5 on the River sealing the deal.

Phil Galford was the assassin.

[snoopy1239]

An intriguing hand developed between Dutch Boyd, and his unnamed mystery opponent.

Mateyboy raised it up pre-flop from the small blind and Dutch called from the big.

Casually munching on his choccy bar, the sometimes-in-the-zone-sometimes-out-of-it Boyd looked on as his opponent bet 17k on the Flop. A brief hesitation, and Dutch calls.

The Turn came a , and, following a quick out of the corner glance at the former bracelet winner, Mateyboy opts to check. Dutch swiftly responds by sliding one column of yellow chips (worth 20k) over the line. Mateyboy echoes the gesture like lightening.

River =

Dutch's eyes seem to widen as if pleased with the card whilst Mateyboy, meanwhile, looks slightly indifferent, briskly checking in the process. Dutch pauses for a moment before once again shoving a stack of yellows across the line, this time accompanied by a second column to make the total bet worth 40k.

At this stage, Mateyboy sunk into the think tank and decided to take a vacation there, leaving us eager beaver (or should that be beagle) bloogers waiting in anticipation. After what felt like a lifetime, which included a frightening stare down, Mateyboy counted out his chips, took a deep breath and made the call.

Boyd flipped over and Mateyboy was furious with himself (and maybe even Dutch), hesitantly slamming his fist down in frustration. He tutted, folded his arms and tried to recuperate himself for the next hand.

Prior to the hand, Boy was on 310k, but he's now back up there fighting for the chip lead.

[snoopy1239]

Latest chip leaders courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Raja Kattamuri -- $405,000
2nd  Mark Vos -- $390,000
3rd  Dutch Boyd -- $380,000
4th  Raj Sawant -- $380,000
5th  Danny Noam -- $340,000
6th  Nick Van Newkirk -- $300,000
7th  Keith Lehr -- $270,000
8th  Bill Edler -- $250,000
9th  Mikko Pispala -- $250,000
10th  Erik Friberg -- $235,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Joe Beevers is OUT

on a board vs

Turn:



So, any King, Queen, Jack or Ten will double him through.

River:




Meanwhile Ram, whose stack was going the other way and dwindled down to 45k, pushed all-in from the big blind after utg, the button and the small blind all limped in. UTG insta-called whilst the other two insta-folded.

Ram:



UTG:

(I think even Ram raised an eyebrow that that was shown after the speed of the all-in call)

Board:



Nine high plays, Ram doubles through but he still has less than half the average stack.