World Series Of Poker Euro Update: Day 12Three Winners Emerge, Two Events Begin, And One Reaches Boiling Point On Day 12 Of The World Seriesby Rebecca McAdam | Published: Jun 10, 2008 | |
 
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There was a lot of action on day 12 of this years World Series with three winners, one final table, and two new events. The winners were announced of the $1,000 Ladies No-Limit World Championship, the $2,000 Omaha high-low split 8-or-better, and the $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout. The final seven headed into battle in the $5,000 two-seven lowball with rebuys, and two events began: the $1,500 pot-limit and $2,000 limit hold’em.
A field of 1,190 women came out for the $1,000 No-Limit Ladies World Championship making it the second largest women-only event ever. Europe was represented by only one player — German Michelle Lam — who cashed out $3,032 in 61st place. Sparsely scattered between a predominantly American field was Argentina, Gibraltar, and Canada. Americans won out however and excluded them from the final table, where they went on to fight it out for the championship bracelet, a limited-edition Corum watch, and the $244,702 cash prize. After a great tournament, Anh Le once again fell just short of her ultimate goal taking home second place prize of $144,567. She finished in second place to Jennifer Tilly in the same event in 2005. New Yorker Svetlana Gromenkova was crowned the winner earning her first WSOP bracelet.
There was no international presence among the final 18 of the $2,000 Omaha high-low split 8-or-better. Of those that cashed were German Thang Nguyen with $5,535 in 32nd place and Brit James Bord with $4,025.00 in 52nd. Jim Pechac was eliminated in third place earning $88,065 for his efforts, and Ted Forrest faced Andrew Brown heads-up for the top prize, the bracelet, and the glory.
Forrest was eliminated in second place, just short of winning his sixth gold bracelet. Brown took home $226,448 and his first gold bracelet for his strong final table performance. Brown sent six of his opponents to the rail during the course of the final table and did not panic against a high-profile opponent who held the chip lead when they got to the final battle.
With 10 players remaining in the $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout , Russian Sergey Rybachenko was knocked out in seventh Place and Kyle Bowker in sixth during the same hand.
Bowker raised 100,000. John Strzemp called from the cutoff and Mike Schwartz called from the button. Sergey Rybachenko moved all in from the small blind for a little over 250,000. When it got back to Kyle Bowker, he too moved all in (637,000), and so did Mike Schwartz. Strzemp folded and it was a three-way all-in pot. Schwartz had them both covered. The board came J
42
9A
Rybachenko: K
K
Bowker: Q9
Schwartz: AQ
Rybachenko led with a pair of kings. The turn gave Bowker a small piece of the board, but the ace on the river gave Schwartz what he needed and Sergey Rybachenko was eliminated in 7th place ($15,698), followed by Kyle Bowker in 6th pace ($23,888). Although Rybachenko and Bowker were both eliminated on the same hand, Bowker gets the better finish based on the fact that going into the hand, Bowker had more chips. Jason Young who had chip lead faced Mike Schwartz for the final dual. Young emerged victorious taking home $328,872
Europeans who cashed earlier in the event for $5,596 were: Jesper Hougard (Belgium), Alon Shahar, (Denmark), Patrick O’Connor (Ireland), Paul Ferner (England), Anthony Roux (England), Frank Blumlein (Germany), Andrey Zaichenko (Russia), Fabio Coppola (Italy), and Marco Liesy (Germany).
Although Carlos Mortensen (Spain), Dario Alioto (Italy) and Nikolay Evdakov (Russia) were knocked out during the final stages of the $5,000 two-seven lowball with rebuys, Lithuanian Antanas Guoga AKA Tony G was making good head-way.
After stealing a pot before the draw and showing trip deuces to Chad Brown, Tony G moved all in. Perhaps skeptical of Guoga's holdings given his play on the previous hand, Brown made the call. Both players drew one card. Brown showed J-8-7-4-2, leaving Guoga to sweat out his drawn card, showing 8-5-4-3. Guoga also flipped over a jack, completing a better jack low to win the pot and double up. He became one of the final seven fighting it out for the hefty cash prize of $537,857.
At level 2 of the $1,500 pot-limit Omaha tournament David "Devilfish" Ulliott took a beating. In the cut-off, Ulliott raised to
550. Another player moved all in which cost Ulliott just 375 more. Ulliott held AA109 and was up against 9883. His opponent spiked a set on the flop of Q85, and it held through the 4 on the turn and 6 on the river. The loss knocked Ulliott down to 4200 in chips.
On the last hand before the table was broken, Ulliott was in the small blind against the button and called a raise to 800. The flop came 933 and both players checked. The A hit the turn, Ulliott checked and then called a 1000 bet. After the 4 hit on the river, Ulliott bet out 2000 only to be raised to 6000. He made the call and showed 9-9-x-x for a flopped full house, but his opponent held A-A-Q-x for a better full house hit on the turn.
Things were looking up however when with about 84 players left, Ulliot moved all in on the river against Chau Giang and was called. He showed 5-6 in his hand, giving him a straight to the eight and earning himself a double up to around 9,000 in chips. His success was short-lived as after dinner break he was sent to the rail in 60th place with $3,522.
Italian pirate Max Pescatori was getting low on chips and with the blinds increasing, he was in need of a double up. Although he was not very successful, it was not for the lack of trying.
Before the flop, Pescatori called the big blind and the flop came Q63 and all players involved checked. On the turn, the A showed up and the action was checked to Pescatori, who bet the pot of 4,800. All the players folded and Pescatori improved to 13,000 at that point. A few hands later, Pescatori rased the pot preflop and received no callers. He was around 18,000 after that.
Dutchman Rob Hollink is among the chipleaders of the 48 players left.
Day one of the 20th event: $2,000 limit hold’em saw plenty of Europeans hoping to break good.
After a K94 flop, Dutchman Marcel Luske bet 50 and was called by two players. The turn was the 9 and seat 2 bet out. Both players called, and the turn was the 5. Again she bet, and again both players called. She flipped over J9 and took down the pot. Luske showed K-Q before mucking his hand.
Italy’s Marco Traniello was up and down throughout the day. A three way at level 4 saw Traniello’ pocket queens increase his stack to around 11,000, but after getting involved in two dead end hands he was soon back down to 2,000.
The field is still quite large after the first day with many Europeans still in the mix including Russian Alexander Kravchenko and Frenchman Nadim Shabou.
Day 13 will be lucky for some and unlucky for others as the fields of the the $1,500 pot-limit and $2,000 limit hold’em events narrow down. The $5,000 no-limit hold’em and $3,000 H.O.R.S.E events will also be thrown into the mix. In the meantime the final seven battle it out for the top prize of the $5,000 two-seven lowball with rebuys tournament.
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