Level One Update
Feb 21, '09
Level: 1
Blinds/Antes: 25-50
Score Board
Players Left (Unofficial): 678 of 678
Notable Chip Counts
Chino Rheem: 6,500
Average: 20,000
Big Hands:
Will Failla Avoids a Flight Home
Will Failla and his opponent in seat 8 have each contributed 1,200 preflop with blinds at 25-50. The flop falls 10-9-5 rainbow and seat 8 raised 1,200 with pocket aces in the hole. Failla made the call with pocket kings in the hole and a 3 falls on the turn. Failla then starts up a dialogue with his opponent. "You are so beat on this hand. I think you should lay it down," goads Failla. "You check, I check," he conitnued, and his opponent obliged. She checked the river as well and Failla avoids an early plane flight home by feeling out his opponent with some table talk.
Featured Tables:
Table 21:
Seat 1: Phil Laak
Seat 2: Chau Giang
Seat 3: Shaun Deeb
Seat 4: Dustin Woolf
Seat 5: Anna Wroblewski
Seat 6: Robert Mizrachi
Seat 7: Dennis Phillips
Seat 9: Joe Sebok
Table 44:
Seat 2: Young Phan
Seat 3: Tont Cousineau
Seat 5: Gavin Smith
Seat 6: Alan Goehring
Seat 7: Jason Mercier
Seat 9: John Hennigan
Left in the Deck
Adam Weinraub Takes Another Bad Beat
Adam Weinraub took a pretty horrible beat to get knocked out of the $10,000 heads-up tournament the other day here at Commerce Casino, and it looks like his luck is not going to change in the main event. He is seated at a table with Carlos Mortensen, Haralabos Voulgaris, Steve-Paul Ambrose, and Andreas Krause. Early in play Voulgaris was seated on his left when Weinraub was dealt pocket kings and Voulgaris picked up aces. Voulgaris took 8,000 off of Weinraub in the hand, but it was later discovered that he was in the wrong seat and then moved. But not before receiving the 8,000 gift courtesy of Weinraub.
Weinraub's elimination hand from the heads-up event (one of the worst bad beat stories you'll come across):
On the first hand of the match against Alex Bolotin, Weinraub flopped a straight and Bolotin flopped a flush. On the very next hand, Weinraub flopped two pair only to see it lose to Bolotin's rivered straight. Then the bad beat of all bad beats went down when Weinraub flopped quad nines holding J-9. After a series of betting on the 10-10 turn and river, Weinraub was all in and seemingly expected to take the pot. Unfortunately, Bolotin showed pocket tens for higher quads and Weinraub was eliminated.
Player Tags: Adam Weinraub, Will Failla