2008 World Series of Poker - Event #5 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys - Day 1
The table below contains the end of day chip counts from Day 1.|
| Phil | Ivey | 175,500 | 11 | 03 | | Amit | Makhija | 161,100 | 03 | 08 | | Jeff | Williams | 145,700 | 09 | 05 | | Marco | Johnson | 132,600 | 11 | 05 | | Jesse | Chinni | 129,000 | 12 | 07 | | John | Hoang | 125,400 | 10 | 08 | | Zachary | Clark | 122,000 | 03 | 04 | | Scott | Dorin | 117,300 | 04 | 03 | | Alan | Sass | 111,800 | 01 | 06 | | Anirudh | Seth | 103,400 | 08 | 03 | | Peter | Gould | 101,000 | 01 | 05 | | Michael | Banducci | 100,600 | 12 | 08 | | John | Esposito | 96,500 | 04 | 05 | | Luke | Staudenmaier | 93,300 | 06 | 09 | | Adam | Levy | 90,900 | 04 | 09 | | James | Kelly | 88,800 | 07 | 02 | | Robert | Cheung | 88,300 | 05 | 05 | | Max | Greenwood | 83,900 | 08 | 06 | | Corwin | Cole | 82,500 | 06 | 08 | | David | Baker | 82,000 | 08 | 04 | | Lee | Watkinson | 80,800 | 02 | 06 | | Alan | Jaffray | 80,600 | 01 | 08 | | Craig | Gray | 76,700 | 04 | 01 | | Vachagan | Zakarian | 76,100 | 05 | 07 | | Jeff | Madsen | 75,900 | 07 | 06 | | Reggie | Nelson | 75,800 | 12 | 05 | | Chris | Moore | 74,900 | 01 | 07 | | Jon | Van Fleet | 71,400 | 11 | 06 | | Steven | Merrifield | 71,100 | 10 | 02 | | Thomas | Gabriel | 71,000 | 01 | 04 | | Ray | Coburn | 68,900 | 10 | 03 | | Phi | Nguyen | 68,600 | 02 | 01 | | James | Rouse | 68,400 | 12 | 09 | | Lyric | Duveyoung | 67,700 | 06 | 05 | | Randy | Haddox | 67,500 | 04 | 08 | | Phil | Hellmuth | 67,300 | 05 | 01 | | Daniel | Negreanu | 64,500 | 03 | 03 | | Carl | Olson | 63,600 | 02 | 02 | | Kenneth | Shelton | 63,300 | 07 | 08 | | Alex | Jacob | 61,600 | 09 | 07 | | Tim | West | 61,000 | 12 | 03 | | John | Juanda | 60,600 | 08 | 02 | | David | Peters | 60,200 | 10 | 01 | | Jerry | Maestas | 59,500 | 06 | 04 | | Sorel | Mizzi | 57,200 | 07 | 03 | | Jan | Von Halle | 56,300 | 06 | 03 | | Gary | Haglund | 56,300 | 03 | 01 | | Ali | Eslami | 55,400 | 08 | 08 | | Romuald | Pycior | 54,800 | 11 | 07 | | Michael | Binger | 54,500 | 12 | 06 | | William | Soffin | 53,300 | 05 | 06 | | Vinh | Nguyen | 52,700 | 12 | 02 | | Chad | Brown | 50,300 | 01 | 02 | | Mark | Vos | 49,700 | 04 | 04 | | Randy | Cherkas | 48,300 | 09 | 04 | | Jamie | Rosen | 48,200 | 06 | 02 | | Steve | Gross | 47,500 | 05 | 03 | | Craig | Panzirer | 46,400 | 08 | 01 | | Chris | Simons | 45,300 | 03 | 06 | | Christopher | Andersson | 44,900 | 06 | 06 | | Joseph | Brooks | 44,500 | 02 | 04 | | William | Cole | 44,300 | 07 | 07 | | Jim | McCrink | 44,100 | 04 | 02 | | Nikolay | Evdakov | 44,100 | 07 | 01 | | Nenad | Medic | 44,100 | 09 | 08 | | Jonathon | Aguiar | 42,600 | 11 | 08 | | Roberto | Romanello | 40,600 | 04 | 06 | | Brian | Darmanin | 38,100 | 01 | 09 | | Ketul | Nathwani | 37,000 | 02 | 05 | | Justin | Rollo | 36,400 | 03 | 09 | | Sam | Simon | 35,600 | 05 | 09 | | Faraz | Jaka | 34,300 | 02 | 09 | | Pedro | Gonzalez Jr. | 34,000 | 08 | 05 | | Peter | Neff | 33,900 | 05 | 04 | | Mark | Dickstein | 33,800 | 03 | 07 | | Bill | Baxter | 33,100 | 10 | 04 | | Jason | Gray | 32,200 | 05 | 08 | | Adam | Richardson | 32,100 | 06 | 01 | | Michael | Chow | 31,500 | 10 | 05 | | Alex | Balandin | 31,500 | 05 | 02 | | Justin | St. John | 31,100 | 07 | 05 | | Pier Paolo | Ruscalla | 30,700 | 09 | 03 | | Mike | Burchfield | 29,200 | 12 | 01 | | Donald | Carlton | 27,800 | 10 | 06 | | Andrew | Ferguson | 27,100 | 02 | 07 | | Kelley | Slay | 27,100 | 04 | 07 | | Dan | Adams | 27,000 | 07 | 09 | | Will | Haydon | 26,500 | 01 | 03 | | Jon | Eaton | 26,000 | 09 | 06 | | Travis | Rice | 24,500 | 07 | 04 | | Daniel | Hirleman | 23,700 | 10 | 07 | | Clonie | Gowen | 22,300 | 12 | 04 | | Nam | Le | 20,800 | 06 | 07 | | Matthew | LaGarde | 20,200 | 11 | 04 | | Roy | Thung | 19,500 | 03 | 05 | | Brian | Cospolich | 18,300 | 09 | 01 | | Blake | Stepp | 17,600 | 09 | 02 | | Michael | Watson | 16,500 | 11 | 09 | | Ken | Golden | 14,900 | 03 | 02 | | Ut | Nguyen | 14,600 | 11 | 02 | | Pat | White | 14,500 | 01 | 01 | | Carl | Perazzola | 13,700 | 08 | 07 | | Frank | Hernandez | 11,700 | 11 | 01 | | Adam | Glassman | 8,500 | 02 | 08 | | Yarom | Limor | 7,300 | 10 | 09 |
Wednesday, 04th of June 2008 02:00 AM
Day 1 has come to a close and just over 100 players will be back for Day 2. But there were a few big names that won't get to participate in the bagging process.
Greg Raymer never could get it back together after running into Chris Moore's aces. Raymer saw would see run top two into bottom set and have his jacks cracked by sixes on his way to bustville. Steve Sung may want take-backs on his 23 rebuys, now that he won't be back when the money bubble bursts.
Day 2 is shaping up to be a wild one. Expect the rail birds to be out in full form, since names Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey still hold onto a lot of chips. Amit Makhija is turning heads with his play early in the WSOP. Makhija spent the entire evening on top of the leaderboard. Late in the day, Makhija rivered aces full to knock out Eric Lynch and his queens full, then busted Alexander Kostritsyn with pocket kings, padding his already deep stack.
Live coverage of Day 2 begins Wednesday at 2 pm PST.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 11:30 PM
Event 5 players are currently on a 20 minute break. Play will resume with blinds of 500-1000.
A multi-tabling Phil Ivey is still moving up. Before leaving on break, Ivey would double up through Cody Slaubaugh after his A-8 found two pair, besting Slaubaugh's A-K. During break, Ivey would toss his last few chips in over in the Omaha 8 tourney, only to run into a nut flush.
Kevin Saul, Toto Leonidas, Johnny Chan and Allen Cunningham. Chan and Cunningham were both eliminated at the hands of Lyric Duveyoung. Chan ran into aces and Cunningham's A-Q was dominated by A-K.
Amit Makhija was able to add to his chip lead after having his Q-Q survive a race with A-K. It wasn't without a sweat, as his opponent outflopped him on the A-J-10 board. The K on the turn gave Makhija broadway and the pot.
There are 154 players remaining.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 10:30 PM
The official numbers are out. Some 766 entrants showed up today. Add on to that 2,258 rebuys and you get a total prize pool of $2,894,094.
All but 72 players will leave here empty handed. Some might leave stuck $10-$20K after the rebuys. Cash and you're guaranteed an $8,103 payday. Take the whole thing down and pocket $636,736 to go along with a shiny new bracelet.
Players have returned from the dinner break without missing a step, as "all in" and "seat open" can still be heard quite often.
Jamie Gold was one of the latest to fall. Gold was all in and at risk against two opponents, an unknown and Billy Baxter. Gold was in bad shape, his 5-6 up not only against Baxter's 6 7 , but a pair of pocket 8's. Niether Gold nor Baxter would connect, giving the unkown player a story to tell and Gold a free pass to the rail.
He might be joined by Lil Hold'em soon. Once the owner of a healthy stack, Batista seemed to sense weakness after two players in late position called a raise to 1,825. It was Batista's turn to act in the BB and Lil Hold'em would shove, 30K more to call. The original raiser got out of the way, as did the guy on the button... but not before the cutoff called. Q-Q for the cutoff. Just a couple of ducks for Batista. No miracle on the 5-7-5-8-9 board, leaving Batista with about 10K.
Some more casualties; Erick Lindgren, the suddenly svelte Mike Matusow and WPT World Champion David Chui.
Amit Makhija has accumulated more than 140K in chips. Just two days removed from an appearance at the Event 1 final table, Makhija is holding onto a chip lead in a tournament field full of maniacs. Daniel Negreanu isn't far behind, pushing the 100K mark.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 08:00 PM
The mood was tense at Mike Matusow's table. Wynn Classic champ Chris Moore had shoved his last 30K in the middle, with 20K in the pot and Greg Raymer, at another new table, contemplating a call.
After a few minutes in the tank, Fossilman would make the call with A-K, in bad shape against Moore's two red aces.
Matusow grumbled as he paced around the table, "100,000 pot in the 200-400 level? I can't believe he made that call."
Fossilman sat quiet as a shaky Moore attempted to stack his giant pot. Everyone at the table was chiming in on the hand, saying how they knew he had aces, mostly because of some shaking.
"I'd be shaking if I didn't have aces there," said Moore.
Players are now on a much deserved dinner break. Action will resume in 90 mins.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 07:00 PM
Poker's an easy game... if you flop quads. That's what Phil Hellmuth did. Throw in a cooler full house for your opponent and you have a recipe for chip stack building.
Both Phil and his opponent checked the 8-J-J flop, while Hellmuth bet the 9 turn and was called. He then bet the A river, again he was met with the call. His opponent avoided disaster, losing a minimal ammount of chips, eventhough he held 8-8 for eights full. He would learn that held held the second best hand after Hellmuth showed J-J. Hellmuth is on the high side of 40K, which will come in handy now that Allen Cunningham and Lee Watkinson are both at his table.
Gavin Smith ran his queens into, ending Birdguts' rebuy run.
In a wave of online eliminations, Jonathan "FieryJustice" Little, Shane "Shaniac" Schleger and Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles have each gone broke.
Greg Raymer has chipped up to more than 50K and now shares a table with Daniel Negreanu and Sam Simon. The trio has more than 125K in chips, between them.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 06:00 PM
We witnessed a fairly quiet last hour in Event 5, seeing how half the time was spent on break.
Former Main Event winners Greg Raymer and Phil Hellmuth both took down big pots with trip 9's. Raymer was able to jump over the 20K, while Hellmuth looks to be over 30K.
Greg "FBT" Mueller, "Cowboy" Kenna James and Mike Sowers were all wishing the rebuy period didn't end, since each busted not long after rebuys closed. Brandon Cantu's flexing worked well in the early stages, but he to would fall after break time.
Robert Cheung is sitting behind a monsterous stack of more than 75K. Also creeping up the leaderboard; Phil Ivey, Blair Hinkle and Gavin Smith.
Gavin took a huge pot away from Eli Elezra, eliminating the high stakes fixture in the process. Elezra was all in with Q-10 on a 10-9-3 flop, hoping Smith's K-J wouldn't improve. The Q on the turn made two pair for Elezra, but a king high straight for Smith. Elezra couldn't fill up on 5th street and was sent to the rail.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 05:00 PM
Since the rebuy period closed, JC Tran, Freddy Deeb, Gabe Kaplan, Men "the Master" Nguyen and Dario Minieri have each bit the dust.
Kaplan ran top pair and a straight draw into his opponent's nut straight. Minieri, after a couple hours of wreckless rebuy action, got it in with top pair top kicker, only to watch his opponent turn their A-Q into a winner after pairing the Q on the river.
John Juanda has made a big push, topping 40K, pulling himself even with Mizzi and Vos, from the maniac table, Burt Boutin and others.
Daniel Negreanu isn't shy about his rebuys. Not sure how many he used up this year, be he's knocking on the door of the 30K club, along with table-mate Sam Simon.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 04:00 PM
So the rebuy period is over, but the overall aggression of the field isn't letting up. In just a couple of hours, there are quite a few stacks around the room that have ballooned from the 2,000 starting stack to 30,000 and up.
Among those sitting behind big stacks; Ryan Young, Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, Mark Vos, Sorel Mizzi and Chad "lilholdem954" Batista.
Both Mizzi and Vos are part of the debauchery that is table #23. Their table went through close to 60 rebuys, requiring at least one reload for the dealer. The main culprit was Steve Sung, who put contributed at least $20K in casino chips.
Batista came prepped with reloads, but just topped the 30K mark thanks to a double elimination. Batista had both Humberto Brenes and CK Hua at risk, Batista's A-A vs. the K-K of Brenes and Hua's Ac10c. Hua would pick up both straight and flush draws on the 8sJc7c flop, but after runner-runner 7's fell, it was Batista's sevens full of aces who would scoop the pot.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 02:00 PM Bracelet winner and 2008 WPT Bay 101 champ Brandon Cantu is showing some muscle. After his 7-4 cracked the pocket aces of EPT Copenhagen winner Tim Vance, Cantu would put those chips to good use, including five straight shoves, on his way to seven pots in a row and counting.
Cantu picked up a caller, on shove #4. In the end, Cantu's K-J outflopped his opponent's K-Q to take down another.
"I'm going to keep applying the pressure," said Cantu. "I'm too strong."
Event 1 winner Nenad Medic is going about a different route, playing blind. So far, this hasn't proved profitable, since he has been a return customer to the rebuy bin.
TJ Cloutier got it in good, A-8 vs. K-7, and even found an 8 on the flop. A king on the turn would change that and TJ was seen headed towards the rail. If he didn't rebuy, Cloutier will end up one of the few eliminations before the end of the rebuy period.
Rebuys will close at approx. 2:15, with the end of level 2. At that time, players will have an option to add on, before heading on a one hour lunch, providing time for the tournament staff to calculate the prize pool.
Play will resume at 3:20 pm.
Tuesday, 03rd of June 2008 01:00 PM
Cards are in the air for Event 5. The tournament got off to somewhat of a late start. Perhaps due to the long line at the cashier. Rebuys cannot be made with cash, only casino chips, thus, the long line at the cage.
Many pros have stacks of $1K casino chips next to their tournament stack, an advantage vs. those who don't have the bankroll the big dogs do. Vivek Rajkumar, Chad Batista and Gavin Smith are among those with a big stack of $1K casino chips by them, just in case.
Heck, sometimes rebuying is overrated. Just ask Michael Chu, who captured the 2007 $1K NLH Rebuy crown sans rebuys, pocketing a cool $585K in the process. Not bad for a $1K investment.
At the time I passed his table, Mike Matusow was busy putting in a text. -- Need more rebuy chips. Table #24, seat 2 -- Not sure who he was sending it to. He did say that he wouldn't feel right unless he rebought about 10 times.
On the other side of the tournament floor, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi has already built a massive stack. He is sitting behing about 35K, while it's hard to find anyone else in the room with more than 10 or 15K. Not sure how that many chips got on that table, but maybe it was the 10 rebuys of Steve Sung.
Also in the field today; Allen Cunningham, Freddy Deeb, David Chiu, Jennifer Tilly, Tony Cousineau, Dario Minieri, Brandon Cantu, Daniel Negreanu, Chad Brown, Greg Raymer and Michael Binger.
Level one is almost complete. Level two means 50-100 blinds.
Live coverage of Day 1 of Event #5, $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/ rebuys, begins Tuesday, June 3rd.
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