WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 2 - Interactive

[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!

[Jim-D]

 

[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]

[snoopy1239]

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

[snoopy1239]

They're down to 13 (or is it 14?) tables, which means officially, we're not allowed passed the rails, but we're going to our best to charm our way in and collate all the action for your viewing pleasure.

If not, I'll set Floppy on em.

[luckyblind]

Keep an eye on Robert Bright please chaps.

[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.

[snoopy1239]

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.

[snoopy1239]

We've been here at the Rio for around a week now, and this is by far the busiest I've seen it thus far. The corridors are filling up and the rail watching the $5k Short-Handed Event is jam-packed. This makes viewing from the rail doubly difficult because as soon as you depart back to the media room to input a hand, your spot at the front of the crowd has gone.

As a result, it looks like I'm just going to have to sneak through to the other side of the rail and look like I belong.

Wish me luck! 

[snoopy1239]

This is the best shot I can currently obtain of our chip leader, Dutch Boyd, but it's definitely him, the extra weight and the bandanna a tell tale sign.

[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.
)
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.
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]

Phil Hellmuth, who, in all honestly, I rarely see make a bad move, is back in the thick of things, betting 20k on a board of . The man with the apparently tricky decision was Nick Schulman, who eventually made the fold after a lengthy dwell.

Rising from his renowned hands on face, collar up posture, Phil Hellmuth refuses to win quietly, adding, "So you had nothing then" and mumbling under his breath.

[snoopy1239]

There are currently 57 players left on 13 tables with an average stack of 125,517.

Not too far away, one of last year's bracelet winner, Hit Squad member Praz Bansi, is participating in the recently started $2k Freezeout which is jam-packed to the rafters and a probable cause of all the bedlam in the corridors this morning (well, afternoon to most).

[snoopy1239]

This chap's still in, a dapper than yesterday (he released the pale trunks last night) Tony G.

Me: "You're looking smart today, Tony."
Tony G: "Yeah, I dressed up for you guys."
Me: "Oh, that's odd, because I dressed down for you."