2011 World Series of Poker

Día 1 completado

Escrito 2011-06-26 18:57 GMT por Matthew

Official Day 1 Chip Counts (total)

Escrito 2011-06-26 18:55 GMT por Matthew

Official Day 1 Chip Counts

Chip counts/puntos
Scott Epstein			48,900
George Lewis			44,300
Tommy Chen			40,900
Christopher George			40,200
Hoyt Corkins			34,700
Michael Wattel			34,500
George Lind			34,000
Benjamin Powell			33,800
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro (USA)		33,600	7,600
Raul Paez			33,600
Brendan Taylor			32,700
Chau Giang			32,400
Viacheslav Zhukov			31,300	24,000
Orjan Skommo			31,300
Calvin Anderson			30,500	11,500
Charles Crouch			29,900
Apostolos Chatzopoulos			29,900
Timothy Finne			29,800
Hasan Habib			28,700	14,700
Jay Kwon			28,400
John Monnette			28,100	100
Justin Smith			28,100	11,600
Matt Smith			27,900
Daniel Abrams			27,900
Daniel Idema			27,700

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George's Atop the Leaderboard

Escrito 2011-06-26 10:13 GMT • Nivel 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

Defending Champ Frank Kassela

After eight levels of play, Day 1 of Event #44, $2,500 Seven Card Razz is complete and quite an interesting day it was. The start of play was delayed by one hour due to a large amount of entrants into Event #43, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em that also started today and took over most of the Pavillion room. Our field started with 363 players, a mere two less than last year, and by the end, around 166 remain. The chip leader appears to be George Lewis who bagged 44,300 at day’s end.

Besides the chip leader, big stacks include Christopher George (40,200), Hoyt Corkins (34,700), George Lind III (34,000) and Chau Giang (32,400). We don’t know if there will be a new champion in this event yet as Frank Kassela, last year’s winner, still remains. Other notables that survived the day were Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (USA), Chad Brown (USA) and Victor Ramdin (USA), as well as Tom Dwan, Erik Seidel, John Monnette and poker media member Tim Fiorvanti.

Some players that weren’t lucky enough to make it to day two were PokerNews’ own Mickey Doft, Team PokerStars Pros Barry Greenstein (USA), Betrand Grospellier (France), Daniel Negreanu (Canada) and Pat Pezzin (Canada), along with Jeff Lisandro, Todd Brunson, David Chiu and David Benyamine.

Due to today’s late start, play will only resume at 4 p.m. PST tomorrow and nine levels instead of the regular ten will be played. We hope to see you back then as we anticipate that the players will make the money on their way to the WSOP gold bracelet and the $210,615 that goes with it which you certainly don’t want to miss.

Five More Hands

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:55 GMT • Nivel 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

With the clock reading 10 minutes, the floor has drawn cards and it has been determined that each table will play five more hands before play is wrapped up for the night.

Somer-Thrill

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:47 GMT por EricRamsey • Nivel 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

We joined the pot on fourth street, heads-up.

Jason Somerville: (X)(X) / / (X)
Opponent: (X)(X) / / (X)

Somerville led the betting on fourth and fifth streets, and his opponent called both street. On sixth, Mr. Opponent took the lead with a bet of his own, and Somerville called with his two pair. On seventh, Somerville faced a dark bet all in, and he called one last time to put his opponent at risk.

Mr. Opponent showed up for a not-so-good ten-low. Somerville had drawn well on seventh, tabling for the winning ninety-seven. With the elimination of his opponent, Somerville moves up to about 13,500.

Tags/etiquetas: Jason Somerville.

Prop Bets Gone Wild

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:17 GMT • Nivel 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

We were checking out Tom Dwan’s table when we heard a commotion going on over at table 135 which was several tables away that even caused Dwan’s head to turn so we went to go check it out. When we got there, Chris Amaral filled us in on the details of what was a prop bet which has been a common occurrence that we’ve seen at several tables today.

If we understood Amaral correctly, the players in the first four seats were betting on their up-card. Whoever has the high card of the four has to pay each of the other three $20. If that high card is a ten or a nine however, the price is $40 and if it is eight or lower, it's $60. Still following?

Every 20 hands though, there is some sort of jackpot hand where the stakes are increased or multiplied. And this was the case when we heard all of the yelling happening. We believe that one of the players lost with a seven which caused him to lose a sizeable amount. It seemed like everyone was enjoying themselves and having a good time though so we’ll let them continue at it.

Wheelin' On Baxter

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:14 GMT por EricRamsey • Nivel 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

Billy Baxter

We picked up the action on fifth street, heads-up between Billy Baxter and a player we don't recognize.

Baxter: (X)(X) / / (X)
Opponent: (X)(X) / / (X)

Mr. Opponent put bets in on fifth and sixth street while we were standing there, with Baxter calling both times. On seventh, the bet came again, but Baxter raised it to two bets. Not to be outdone, his opponent raised it back, and Baxter made the crying call.

The other player revealed for the wheel, and Baxter flashed as he tucked and mucked his way down to 16,500 or so.

Tags/etiquetas: Billy Baxter.

Nivel 8 empezado

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:04 GMT

Double-Dip

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:04 GMT por EricRamsey

Chip counts/puntos
Jimmy Fricke			39,400	8,400
			29,500	600
John Monnette			28,000	6,400
Frank Kassela			23,000	7,000
Shawn Buchanan			23,000	4,000
Erik Seidel			19,000	3,000
Chau Giang			18,500	6,000
			18,000	7,500
Michael Binger			17,000	13,000
Jason Mercier	PokerStars Team Pro (USA)		17,000	3,500
Bryan Micon			17,000	5,000
Cyndy Violette			16,300	1,300
David Sklansky			15,300	-700
Berry Johnston			14,700	1,700
Jerry Buss			14,100	2,600
Julie Schneider			14,000	-5,500
Shawn Sheikhan			13,000	-4,000
Jean Gaspard			5,100	-6,400
Darus Suharto			2,200	-6,200

Checking on Chips

Escrito 2011-06-26 09:00 GMT por EricRamsey

Chip counts/puntos
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro (USA)		26,000	11,000
Hoyt Corkins			21,000	8,000
Victor Ramdin	PokerStars Team Pro (USA)		21,000	14,800
			20,000	-5,000
Scott Bohlman			19,000
David Benyamine			19,000	7,000
John Cernuto			19,000	500
Alexander Kostritsyn			18,800	-1,200
Robert Williamson III			18,300	7,300
Max Stern			17,000	2,000
			16,700
Justin Smith			16,500	1,300
Daniel Alaei			14,500	4,000
Lacey Jones			14,500	-1,500
Hasan Habib			14,000	3,400
			13,800	3,600
Perry Friedman			13,000	4,300
			12,000	4,000
			12,000	-3,000
Phil Laak			12,000	600
			11,000	1,500
Brandon Cantu			11,000	1,000
			11,000
			10,300	3,800
			10,000	-800

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