Day Two Over
Jun 20, '07
The long and grueling heads up match between Vanessa Selbst and Paul Wasicka has come to an end. Selbst had a clear chip advantage over Wasicka heading into what would be the final hand of the evening. After a flop of K-5-3 Wasicka checked. Selbst bet out. Wasicka check raised to $30,000 and Selbst didn't hesitate to reraise to $85,000. Wasicka thought for a moment before coming back over the top all in for has last $200,000. Selbst made the call and was holding 5-3 for the flopped two pair. Wasicka had K-Q for only top pair. The turn was a six and the river was a nine, giving no help to Wasicka. Vanessa Selbst advanced to day three and effectively ended play for the night.
Play will resume tomorrow at 2 p.m. with these final four match ups.
Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas vs. Daniel Schrieber
Jared Davis vs. Mark Muchnik
Shannon Shorr vs. Vanessa Selbst
Steve Sarrafzadeh vs. Keith Black
The levels will be 60 minutes long tomorrow and each player will start with $640,000 in chips. Come back tomorrow to
CardPlayer.com to check out all the action and see who will be crowned champion in this first
World Series of Poker Heads Up event.
Player Tags: Toto Leonidas, Mark Muchnik, Paul Wasicka, Shannon Shorr, Vanessa Selbst, Steve Sarrafzadeh
Heads Up Recap
Jun 20, '07
The field has narrowed to two final heads up matches. Vanessa Selbst and Paul Wasicka are still locked in a grueling battle, as well as Jason Glass and Keith Block. Toto Leonidas, Jared Davis, Shannon Shorr, Daniel Schrieber, Mark Muchnik and Steve Sarrafzadeh are all advancing to day three of this Heads Up tournament.
Thomas Wahlroos was eliminated in 14th place after being short stacked to Steve Sarrafzadeh. Wahlroos pushed all in preflop for his last $40,000 with A-10. Sarrafzadeh called and showed A-6. The board came 6-4-2-8-7, Sarrafzadeh paired his six and finally eliminated Thomas Wahlroos.
Paul Wasicka and Vanessa Selbst have been trading chips all level and it would be foolish to count either one of them out. Wasicka was down to just over $100,000 before doubling up to stay alive. Following a flop of 10-7-2 Wasicka bet out. Selbst raised and Wasicka reraised all in. Selbst made the call and showed A
2
. Wasicka showed Q
10
and was in the lead. The turn was a two and Selbst took the lead away from Wasicka with a set of twos. Wasicka got up to leave the table when the dealer put out the miracle ten on the river to fill Wasicka's boat. Wasicka doubled up to over $200,000 and sat back down ready to play some more heads up poker.
Carmel Petresco was all in preflop with pocket aces against Shannon Shorr's pocket kings, one of which was the K
. Four straight hearts peeled off the deck for Shorr and Petresco wasn't holding the A
. Shorr had Petresco covered and advanced to the final day of heads up play.
Player Tags: Toto Leonidas, Mark Muchnik, Paul Wasicka, Shannon Shorr, Thomas Wahlroos, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Glass, Steve Sarrafzadeh
One Match Remains
Jun 20, '07
The fourth round of heads up play is still going on, with only one heads up match in play. Scotty Nguyen and Mark Muchnik are at a stand still and have gotten into the habit of trading blinds. Muchnik has a slight chip advantage over Nguyen, who has been frustrated for much of the round over how card dead he is. Nguyen has repeatedly folded to any raise and when doing so angrily folds his cards. "I've only gotten one pair this whole time. Pocket nines." said Nguyen.
Either Muchnik or Nguyen will complete the 16 player bracket and there is one more round scheduled for tonight. Eight more heads up matches will begin at 10 p.m. and when the dust settles there will be only eight players left in the field. The final eight match ups are as follows:
Jason Glass vs. Keith Block
Steve Sarrafzadeh vs. Thomas Wahlroos
Jared Davis vs. Curt Kohlberg
Steve Song vs. Scotty Nguyen/Mark Muchnik
Vanessa Selbst vs. Paul Wasicka
Shannon Shorr vs. Carmel Petresco
Daniel Schrieber vs. Jonah Rogers
Toto Leonidas vs. Michael Pickett
Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Toto Leonidas, Jared Davis, Curt Kohlberg, Mark Muchnik, Paul Wasicka, Jonah Rogers, Keith Block, Shannon Shorr, Thomas Wahlroos, Vanessa Selbst, Steve Song, Jason Glass, Steve Sarrafzadeh
