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

[snoopy1239]

Sloppy and Floppy,

Greetings from a very wet and windy UK, in fact I'm considering building an ark.......

 

Should watch Evan Almighty first for some tips.

[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.

[trustno1]

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.

That's a shame.
Still, I hope she enjoys her $US6159.

[Tragic]

When does/did the payout start? How many entrants were there?

[trustno1]

When does/did the payout start? How many entrants were there?

This event paid to the top 78, and day 2 started with 77 players.
728 players started this event.

[snoopy1239]

Francois Balmigere -- 85,000

[snoopy1239]

David Daneshgar -- 130,000

[snoopy1239]

Keith Lehr -- 305,000 (although straight after he doubled up a shortstack with A-K vs. 7-7 and a Q-9-Q-3-J board).

[snoopy1239]

We have action!!!



and lots of...



accompanied by an inevitable tinge of...



The first players to experience these motions were Mark Vos and Erik Friberg, the Swede all-in on a Flop of with vs. the Aussie's .

The Turn was an inconsequential , but the River caused an eruption as the hit the felt, Mark Vos being forced to leave his table in dismay and search for consolidation in a friend.

Double up for Friberg.

[snoopy1239]

Next up is Phil Hellmuth, who is now down to the felt after his Pocket Threes on a 8-2-3 Flop were cracked by his neighbour's Pocket Queens, Jack Turn, Queen River.

As you can imagine, the Poker Brat was beside himself and leapt from his seat shouting, "Noooooooooo! This is unbelievable!"

Searching for someone blame, most of Hellmuth's complaints were made under his breath, although I do recall him moaning to the dealer about the cards being dealt.

Either way, Hellmuth has taken a big and unfortunate knock, and was left with the consolation prize of Tony G's company, which probably didn't help matters.

[snoopy1239]

And that monster monster pot has put Erik Friberg top of the pile. Thanks to worldseriesofpoker.com for the counts:

1st  Erik Friberg -- $450,000
2nd  Dutch Boyd -- $380,000
3rd  Raj Sawant -- $380,000
4th  Raja Kattamuri -- $370,000
5th  Bill Gazes -- $345,000
6th  Gioi Luong -- $335,000
7th  Danny Noam -- $320,000
8th  Keith Lehr -- $270,000
9th  Bill Edler -- $250,000
10th Lance Allred -- $240,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Hellmuth has doubled up twice since then, he's now back over 100k.

Meanwhile Ram Vaswani has managed a remarkable comeback. He's now got over 400k(!) including busting the guy who had the Fives against his 9-8

Ram:



Matey:



Board (with various shouts of "Eight!" from Matey in between every street):



Ram then took down another big pot with a 50k bet on the turn of a board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Next up is Phil Hellmuth, who is now down to the felt after his Pocket Threes on a 8-2-3 Flop were cracked by his neighbour's Pocket Queens, Jack Turn, Queen River.

As you can imagine, the Poker Brat was beside himself and leapt from his seat shouting, "Noooooooooo! This is unbelievable!"

Searching for someone blame, most of Hellmuth's complaints were made under his breath, although I do recall him moaning to the dealer about the cards being dealt.

Either way, Hellmuth has taken a big and unfortunate knock, and was left with the consolation prize of Tony G's company, which probably didn't help matters.

On the bright side, if Thomas Wahlroos comes by to knock over his stack, Hellmuth will be able to re-stack fairly quickly.

[snoopy1239]

Francois Balmigere is OUT in testicle crunching circumstances, looking good with all-in versus .

However, it all turned to brown excrement as the board brought a soul destroying , the runner runner runner runner sending the Frenchman to the rail.

[snoopy1239]

7 tables
36 players
202,222 av stack