The final table bubble has burst and there are only nine players remaining. Erick Lindgren was the unfortunate player to finish in 10th place, just missing what would have been his second final table of the 2007 World Series of Poker.
Qushqar Morad raised preflop and Lindgren called from the big blind. The flop came 6 4 2 and Lindgren bet out. Morad raised enough to put Lindgren all in and Lindgren made the call. Lindgren showed 10-10-7-5 and Morad was in the lead with Q-Q-7-5. The turn brought an ace and the river was a two, eliminating Lindgren and squandering his ongoing quest for his first World Series of Poker bracelet.
The following nine players will return tomorrow at 3 p.m. to battle down to a winner.
Qushqar Morad
Chris Bjorn
Brandon Adams
Chau Giang
Hilbert Shirey
Robert Fellner
Van Marcus
Birinder Nijran
Alan Smurfit
Come back tomorrow to CardPlayer.com to follow all the action and see which lucky player will secure a spot in history.
There are 51 players remaining in today's $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/ rebuys event and play has ended for the day. Play will resume tomorrow at 3 p.m. and will continue until there is a winner.
Play ended relatively early tonight, as tournament officials elected to end the night at the end of the level as opposed to the scheduled 2 a.m. During the final level of play there were six tables consisting of 56 players. The most dangerous table included Josh Arieh, Jeff Madsen, Ram Vaswani, Allen Cunningham, and David "Devilfish" Ulliot.
Notable eliminations include Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, John D'Agostino and Josh Arieh. On what would be the last hand of the night, Arieh raised preflop to $5,600 and was called by only Ram Vaswani. The flop came K 9 7 and Arieh pushed his last $10,000 into the middle. Vaswani instantly made the call. Arieh quickly turned over A A 4 2 and was looking to stop the bleeding he'd been experiencing since earlier in the day when his stack was almost $187,000. Vaswani showed Q J 10 3. The dealer put out the J on the turn and Arieh's frustrations continued. Arieh couldn't get out of the Amazon Room faster after seeing Vaswani complete his straight on the turn. The river was the 10 and Vaswani collected his chips as the last few seconds of the level ticked away.
Come back to CardPlayer.com tomorrow at 2 p.m. to follow the remaining 51 players and to see who takes home the World Series of Poker gold bracelet and $464,867.
There are currently 57 players remaining in today's $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys event. Still in the field are Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen, Josh Arieh, Chau Giang, David Williams, Humberto Brenes, Joe Hachem, Ralph Perry, Johnny Chan, Erick Lindgre, Michael Mizrachi, David Ulliot and Robert Williamson III.
Walking amongst the six remaining tables it is hard not to see at least three or four big name players that have an legitimate chance of taking this tournament down. At a table including Allen Cunningham, Ram Vaswani and Josh Arieh, young poker phenom Jeff Madsen is more than holding his own. With a board showing 9 7 5 Madsen made a pot sized bet of $29,200, pushing all in. Arieh was the only other player left in the hand and visibly frustrated with the decision in front of him. Arieh counted out $29,200 from his stack several times before eventually making the call. Madsen quickly turned over K K Q 10 and didn't wait to see what Arieh was holding before getting out of his chair. Arieh showed 5 4 2 2 and had some work to do. The turn brought the 9 and the river was the 10, doubling Madsen up to over $95,000 and giving him enough chips to make his presence felt at a table full of savvy veterans.
Seventy-two players remain in today’s Pot-Limit Omaha event, slightly less than a quarter of the original 293 entrants. As players continue to drop and the room is consolidated, some new heavily stacked tables are starting to emerge.
Table # 24 now plays host to Josh Arieh, Barry Greenstein, Allen Cunningham, and Captain Tom Franklin. Josh Arieh is stacked with chips and high on the leader board, with Barry Greenstein following not too far behind him. Captain Tom Franklin on the other hand is fatally short-stacked even after tripling up through the player on the button. Arieh limps in a pot from the cutoff followed by the player on the button. Franklin raises all-in for a total of $2,000 from the small blind. Both players call and the flop comes A Q 2. Arieh checks to the button who bets $6,400. Arieh folds out of the side pot and the button shows A Q 7 5. Franklin turns over Q 10 7 7 and the turn and river bring the K and the J, giving Franklin a straight for the win. Franklin triples up this hand and lives to see another flop.
Table # 22 is also in contention for the stacked table award with Dewey Tomko, David Williams, Gioi Luong, and Robert Williamson III. On a flop of J 6 4, Williamson, Luong, Tomko, and the big blind all check around. The 4 hits the turn and once again, all of the players check around. The river brings the 8 and David Williamson fires $1,600 at the pot. Everyone folds to Dewey Tomko who re-raises to $4,000. Williamson looks over at Tomko’s stack and shakes his head, saying, “Wow, that’s eights full right there betting.” Williamson goes into the tank and makes the call a few minutes later. Tomko turns over Q 9 8 8 for eights full, and Williamson gets a good laugh at himself.
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The players in today's $3,000 Limit Hold 'Em event have returned following a short, but much needed dinner break. Level five will begin with blinds of $100-$200 and limits of $200-$400. Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for a level five recap coming shortly.
Wed Jun 20 22:03:00 -0700 2007
Players Return
The players have returned from dinner and picked up exactly where they left off. Two tables in particular attracted the most attention because the plentiful amount of talent at each.
Table 25 1. David "Devilfish" Ulliot
2. Juha Helppi
3. Dave Colclough
4. Mike Wattel
6. Greg Raymer
7. Padraig Parkinson
9. Scott Clements
There were officially 293 players in today's event, with a prize pool of $1,684,305. There were 880 rebuys and 27 spots will get paid. Each player will make at least $16,001 and first place will take home $464,867 and a World Series of Poker bracelet.
Josh Arieh was able to pick up a nice pot early in the level and eliminate a player at the same time. With the board showing J 8 3 6 Arieh made a pot size bet of $26,000. His opponent in seat four came back over the top and raised all in for about $10,000 more. Arieh made the call and turned over 10 7 5 4 for a straight and a flush draw with one card to come. The player in the four seat showed K K 6 3 and was in the lead with his pocket kings. The turn brought the 2, completing Arieh's straight and sending his opponent to the rail. After his defeated opponent was out of earshot, Arieh jokingly said to the table, "I knew I was gonna hit."
Mike Wattel was able to hold onto a short stack and double up this level through Juha Helppi. All in preflop, both players waited to show their cards until the dealer put out the board. The board came 7 4 2 10 10 and Wattel smiled and turned over A J 10 5 for a set of tens. Helppi mucked his hand and Wattel was able to double up to over $22,000.
John Phan, Greg Raymer and Phil Ivey were all eliminated in the first level after the dinner break.
Players in today's Pot-Limit Omaha event have just returned from dinner and have now enetered Level 6 where the blinds have increased to $300-$600. Be sure to check back with CardPlayer.com for more updates.
Wed Jun 20 19:30:00 -0700 2007
Dinner Break
Players in today's Pot-Limit Omaha event have just gone on dinner break. Play will resume at 9 p.m., so be sure to check back with CardPlayer.com for more updates and your favorite Pro Blogs.
Notable Chip Counts
Eli Elezra
80,000
Humberto Brenes
78,000
Josh Arieh
58,000
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
49,000
David Williams
48,000
Chau Giang
47,000
Erick Lindgren
46,000
Joseph Hachem
43,000
Michael Binger
42,500
Lee Watkinson
41,500
Sherkhan Farnood
38,000
Eric Froehlich
36,500
Allen Cunningham
36,000
Ram Vaswani
36,000
Phil Ivey
35,000
Andrew Black
34,000
John D'Agostino
33,000
Johnny Chan
32,500
Robert Williamson III
29,000
Mike Sexton
25,500
Captain Tom Franklin
22,000
Daniel Alaei
22,000
Gavin Smith
22,000
Dewey Tomko
21,400
Barry Greenstein
21,000
Mike Wattel
21,000
John "The Razor" Phan
20,000
Greg Raymer
19,000
John Juanda
19,000
Tony G
14,000
David "Devilfish" Ulliott
11,200
David Grey
11,000
Andy Bloch
10,000
Jeff Madsen
9,500
Berry Johnston
9,000
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
9,000
Surinder Sunar
7,400
Hasan Habib
5,000
Wed Jun 20 19:01:00 -0700 2007
PLO Gaining Momentum
As we approach the dinner break, these pot-limit Omaha players show no signs of slowing down.
Mike Matusow tangled with Chris Ferguson on one hand in particular, folding to an Ace high board that contained three clubs and a pair of sixes. Ferguson didn't miss the chance to needle Matusow just a bit, as he showed him his holecards, two at a time. First Ferguson showed the J8, to which Matusow replied, "I could beat that." Then Ferguson revealed the A6. Matusow announced that he couldn't beat that, but his flush was Queen high.
Johnny Chan shipped quite a few chips to Phil Ivey when they tangled in a pot. Ivey led out on the flop of K K 5 for $1,000, Chan raised to $4,500, and Ivey called. The Q hit on the river, Ivey fired out $8,000 and Chan called. The river was the 3, Ivey bet $20,000 and Chan folded. Ivey now has over $50,000 in chips.
The Europeans are largely holding their own in this tournament. Dave Colclough has joined Dave Ulliott and Padraig Parkinson’s table. Dave, the German/Iranian player at the table behind them is still talking to anyone that’ll listen and often to no-one at all.
‘I don’t ever want to speak to you again,’ he shouts over to Ulliott. ‘We’re not friends anymore. You make me sick.’
‘Can I get that in writing please,’ said a deadpan Ulliott.
Dave then went on to tell Devilfish he looked much better in glasses. ‘Here, you can try mine, they’re Chanel,’ he offered. Ulliott didn’t look too impressed.
Dave was also asking Mike Sexton if he ever watched himself on TV. ‘I don’t own a TV myself,’ said Dave. ‘They say it makes you stupid.’ Parkinson shouted over his shoulder ‘You must have watched a lot when you were a kid then?’
Chris Bjorin took a big hit when he re-raised all in for $23,700 with AA79 and got called by Erik Lindgren and the original raiser. On a board of 6610KJ he could only win the side pot and is down to $7,000 in chips.
Eoghan O’Dea doubled up to around $8,500 in chips when he pushed with 2KK4 and the board came 1075810
Other chip counts include:
Barny Boatman $28,000
Padraig Parkinson $33,000
Juha Helppi $17,000
Dave Ulliott $20,100
Surindar Sunar $11,000
Dave Colcough $21,000
Rolf Slotboom $36,000
Andy Black $38,000
Adrian Walsh $5,000
Julian Gardiner $26,000
Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for more updates on the hour and check Padraig Parkinson's Pro Blog.
The tables have begun breaking as these players are no longer protected by the option to rebuy.A total of 293 entered today’s tournament, but the number of total rebuys is still being tabulated.If Rick Fuller’s table is representative of the rest of the field then that calculation may take a while.There are currently 180 players left on 20 tables.
David Grey and John Phan doubled up early in the 4th level.Grey doubled through Erick Lindgren with a set, and Phan had Kings full of tens paid off by a player with trip tens.David Williams doubled through Andy Bloch on a very high action flop.Bloch moved Williams in on a flop of A J 8.Bloch held the nut flush draw with A972, but Williams held AAK6 for top set with second-nut flush draw.The turn J ended the suspense as Williams filled up.
Michael Mizrachi has also stayed busy.Just as his all-star table was breaking, Mizrachi moved Minh Ly all in on a A-3-2 flop. Minh held middle set, but Mizrachi had flopped the wheel.The turn and river bricked out, and Ly was eliminated.Mizrachi was then reseated directly next to a favorite verbal sparring partner Mike Matusow; also seated at this table are Main Event winners Joe Hachem and Chris Ferguson, as well as Sherkhan Farnood and Eli Elezra.
Phil Ivey recently took a nice pot off Rick Fuller with a flopped wheel.Fuller led the betting till the river with the nut flush draw, and paid Ivey off when he spiked a set on the river.
The Europeans are largely holding their own and mostly having fun. Dave Colclough called over a floor manager and asked him to 'please break this table - this guy (motioning to his right) is driving me insane.'
Padraig Parkinson, on $31,000 chips, is interjecting in a conversation at a table behind him which holds Mike Sexton. A German/Iranian player called Dave who Padraig knows from his days playing in Paris in the late 1990s is bragging about how great a player he is to Sexton. Padraig is having none of it of course.
Mike Matusow is at a table with Joe Hachem, Chris Ferguson and Eli Elezra and is discussing Andy Black with Hachem. 'I told Andy Black not to mix it up (referring to 2005 WSOP main event final table) and he'd glide into the final two but nooooooo....he want's to coin flip for $10 million. He's a nice guy but that's crazy.'
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