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  mussorgsky EnthusiastPosts: 7777 |
Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 03:39 AM. Post 1 |
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Everything in italics is cut and pasted from PN 1,250 players started the day. Bryan Colin Needs to Run Good Bryan Colin is a big online poker player. He tells us he has dropped $250,000 online this week alone, and needs to final table at the main event just to break even. Ouch! Good luck with that. The Smell of Things One table has a very strong odor of something familiar to many poker players, especially those that play in home games. We're not saying what it is, but it's pretty easy to guess. You Again Shane Warne and Tony Hachem are good friends, but if they had their choice they'd rather not be seated at the same poker table. That's the situation they found themselves in at the start of Day 2a, but their table was one of the first to be broken today. The seating cards were handed out, Warne and Hachem looked to see where they're going...and it turns out they're headed for the same table. Again. "Can you believe this?" Warne said to Tony. I Varkonyi You Robert Varkonyi raised to 1,600 from under the gun before Steve Mondry reraised to 4,600. There was a call behind Mondry before Varkoni moved all in. Mondry called as the other player folded. "I guess you got me," said Mondry, as he tabled {A-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}. He was indeed behind Varkonyi's {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs}. As the flop was coming out Mondry was shouting for ace. When he saw the {A-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} he shouted "Yes..... oh ****." The turn came {5-Spades} and river {A-Spades} to make a boat for Varkonyi and eliminate Mondry. Varkonyi up to 39,000 now. A Wrinkle in Time When we started play today, we noticed that Scotty Nguyen was not in his seat. Forty minutes into the day, he has finally arrived. It seems that Nguyen went to the Stars [site edited down by muss] party at Rain in the Palms last night, and someone there told him he didn't have to play until Wednesday. Fast forward to noon today, which found Scotty blissfully asleep at his home. His wife woke him up and asked him why he wasn't at the Rio. It was then that he determined that yes, he was scheduled to play today. He's in his seat now (and doesn't seem hung over). Hal Lubarsky and His Assistant Hal Lubarsky is legally blind and uses an assistant who relays him the action. He has an interesting totem on his table. It's a ceramic paw print. The dog is a German shepherd named Nexus, who actually belongs to Hal's assistant. Before every hand, Hal touches the paw print for good luck. On Hands and Knees It's surprising that this doesn't happen more often, but a player who was moving to another table just spilled two racks full of chips all over the floor. There are a quartet of floorpersons scouring the area helping him pick up chips and make sure that he didn't miss any. Fortunately for him brightly colored poker chips are easy to pick out against the Amazon Room's reddish-brown/beige/gold/whatever carpeting. Buy the Book After a recent hand completed in which Richard Burns won, Burns turned to tablemate Barry Greenstein and as he collected his chips asked "Barry, what do you do there?" "What?" asked Greenstein. "What do you do there, with that hand?" clarified Burns. Greenstein shrugged, politely declining to go too deep into a post-hand analysis at the table. Greenstein is still sitting on the short stack with a little over 10,000. A copy of his book, Ace on the River, sits under his chair, destined to be awarded to the player who busts him, if that happens. What a Read! Mark Garner opened the pot for 1,400 and was called by the cutoff and the big blind. Those three players took a highly coordinated flop of {Q-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {10-Diamonds}. The big blind checked to Garner, who bet 2,700. Only the cutoff called. Both remaining players checked the {7-Diamonds} turn. When the river fell {3-Diamonds}, Garner bet 3,200 and the cutoff raised to 6,400. "I know you don't have the ace of diamonds," said Garner. He reraised to 13,000. The cutoff mulled it over for a bit and then folded. As he raked in the pot, Garner opened his hand: {K-Clubs} {10-Hearts}, drawing gasps of surprise and raised eyebrows from almost everyone at the table. Garner is up to 182,000. Rule #1 of Fight Club... Justin Wallace is an imposing player on Blue 24 who hails from Paducah, Ky. In a former life, Justin was a bare-knuckle fighter in a Kentucky bar. They had a ring set up in the middle of the bar, people would tape their hands and punch each other in the face. The bar closed a couple years ago, and now Wallace plays poker. The Power of the Pink Goggles We found Greg Cox sitting in the blue section wearing a long blue robe. Also near his chair are a bright green straw hat and a pair of pink swim goggles. We learned that he lost a prop bet recently, and the garb is related to his payout. The conditions of the bet say that every time he is all in, he has to put on the hat and goggles while he sweats his fate. He's still with us, so something must be working with the wardrobe. At least if he busts, he'll go out in style. And if he doesn't bust and finds a way to win the whole thing, we might see a new rush of players showing up to their games in pink goggles. That's Dirty Just before the break, David Rheem got away with one. He raised to 1,800 preflop and was called by one player. Rheem checked the {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} flop to his opponent, who bet 3,000. Rheem check-raised to 9,000; his opponent called. On the {4-Spades} turn, Rheem checked in the dark. The cutoff bet 8,000 and again Rheem called. When the river fell {10-Spades}, Rheem bet 9,500, enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent did make the call with {A-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds}, then slammed the table in frustration when Rheem showed {J-Spades} {2-Spades}. Rheem is now up to 148,000.  Fricke Flushed Jimmy Fricke was battling with a short stack and looked set to double up with {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts} but instead found himself heading to the rail as his opponent rivered a flush holding {Q-Spades}{9-Spades}. The Big Three Dan Lu, Hogan Meyer and another player just fought it out preflop bringing along their weapons of choice. For Lu it was {A-Diamonds} {A-Spades}, for Meyer it was {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs}, and for their opponent it was {Q-Spades} {Q-Diamonds}. The board ran {6-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {5-Hearts}. The stopping power of the pocket rockets held up to nearly triple Lu up to 60,000. Meyer, on the other hand, is sitting in a pool of exit blood. You never see that live. Oh, wait... Time to Go Back to Bed, Baby Scotty Nguyen's chip stack slowly dwindled throughout the first two levels of play. He moved all in for his last 4,000 and was called by Alexandre Schwab. Nguyen's pocket nines were in bad shape against Schwab's pocket kings until the flop came {4-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts}. Schwab held the {K-Hearts} however, so Nguyen needed to fade a fourth heart. He couldn't do it when the turn and river came {5-Diamonds} {7-Hearts}. Nguyen showed up late and departs early. Varkonyi's Got a Big Pair Tom Parr raises under the gun to 2,200 and Robert Varkonyi, winner of the 2002 main event, reraises all in to 17,200. "Wake up with a hand, Mr. Varkonyi?" says Parr. "No shame in doubling me up," says Varkonyi. "Got a big pair?" says Parr. At that point, with the ESPN cameras watching, Varkonyi stands up and motions as if he's unzipping his pants. "Wanna see my big pair?" he says. Then, while Parr is still in the tank, the dealer starts chatting with Varkonyi, asking him where his bracelet came from, apparently never having noticed the massive photo of Varkonyi along the wall. Eventually, Parr folds and Varkonyi rakes in the pot. He has 20,975. Maybe Jacks Are Good. Maybe Not. Signs that you are probably beat: after one opponent raises to 12,000 and you reraise to 26,000 to put him all in, a different player in between the two of you raises all in to 56,000 AND the original raiser calls all in. That's probably a good spot to lay down {J-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}. Avi Cohen instead chose to call, and found out he was up against {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds} and {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts}. Nobody improved, so Jani Vilmunen's aces took both the main pot and the side pot, knocking out John Shipley in the process and denting Cohen's chip stack to 83,000. Hudson Shows a Bluff Preflop, Tino Lechich bet out 1,500 and Adam Hudson raised to 5,000. Lechich called. Flop: {J-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {3-Spades} Lechich checked to Hudson, who bet out 12,000. Lechich said the following as he was folding: "Queens are good." Hudson: "How about four-five off?" Lechich: "That would be no good." Hudson showed {4-Hearts} {5-Spades}. Antonius Ascends Five limpers saw a flop of {4-Spades}{4-Hearts}{J-Clubs}. Gaetano Buda bet 2,400, Patrik Antonius called, and the others got out of the way. The turn was the {9-Hearts}. This time Buda checked, Antonius bet 3,500, Buda check-raised to 10,500, and Antonius called. The river was the {7-Hearts}. Buda checked, and Antonius pushed all in for 16,500. "I told myself I wasn't going to get involved in a hand with you," said Buda as he contemplated his decision. Of course, this hasn't been the first hand today in which he's run up against the Flying Finn. Buda made the call. Antonius showed {4-Clubs}{7-Clubs} for the full house, and Buda mucked. Antonius doubled up to 64,000 on that one. Soon after, Antonius picked up another nice pot without a showdown, and after struggling for most of the day, Antonius is way up to 90,000. |
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  Jeremy-1986 Senior memberPosts: 1907 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 03:57 AM. Post 2 |
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 amh11 Senior memberPosts: 5343 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:07 AM. Post 3 |
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n1 muss  Love the J2 spades hand  |
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mussorgsky Enthusiast Posts: 7777 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:12 AM. Post 4 |
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Well That Didn't Work Brandon Adams recently made a curious move against his table that didn't work out in his favor. After an early-position player raised to 1,100, Erick Lindgren and a middle-position player both called. Action folded to Adams, who took a stack of 20 orange (T5,000) chips and slammed them down in the middle of the table. The initial raiser folded, bringing the action back to Lindgren. He tanked for three or four minutes before finally, reluctantly, folding his hand. Then the middle-position player surprised the whole table by calling all in for a total of 18,000 and opening {6-Spades} {7-Spades}! Adams showed {A-Diamonds} {9-Clubs}, infuriating Lindgren. The board ran out {10-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {3-Spades} to make two pair for the middle-position player. Adams still has plenty of chips. Prize Pool and Payouts The total prize pool generated by the 6,844 entrants was $64,333,600. That makes the prize pool break down as follows: 1: $9,119,517 2: $5,790,024 3: $4,503,352 4: $3,763,515 5: $3,088,012 6: $2,412,510 7: $1,769,174 8: $1,286,672 9: $900,670 10-12: $591,869 13-15: $463,201 16-18: $334,534 19-27: $257,334 28-36: $193,000 37-45: $154,400 46-54: $135,100 55-63: $115,800 64-72: $96,500 73-81: $77,200 82-90: $64,333 91-99: $51,466 100-162: $41,816 163-225: $38,600 226-288: $35,383 289-351: $32,166 352-414: $28,950 415-477: $27,020 478-540: $25,090 541-603: $23,160 604-666: $21,230 The top eight will get interest on top of these amounts, presumably, because of the delayed final table. Read This Voitto Rintala is a Finnish heavy metal guitarist for the band "Random Eyes" (get it?) He's got the most unusual contact lenses in the entire room, turning his entire eye white except the pupil. Quote of the Day We observed a player with the following quote written on his t-shirt: "The best substitute for a brain is silence." You Don't Bet That? On the turn, with the board showing {A-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {A-Clubs}, Chuck Thompson bet out 2,500 and Glen Willcock made the call. The river fell the {6-Clubs} and action was checked around. Willcock showed {A-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} and Thompson showed {9-Spades} {2-Hearts}. After the hand, Willcock moved up to 38,000 and Thompson moved down to 44,000. After the hand, Thompson said, "Why did you check on the river?" Willcock: "You can't have two nines?" Another player: "Ya. Never bet with second nuts." Unlucky Shoes Sverre Sundbo woke up this morning wondering what to wear today. He called his girlfriend and she gave him a few suggestions. One of his choices was to wear a new pair of white sneakers. Within the first level, he had seen his double-the-average stack reduced to less than 10,000. He called his girlfriend again and she told him to take off the sneakers as they might be bringing him bad luck. He duly did what he was told and, pot win after pot win, has seen his stack rise all the way up to 150,000. Sverre can now be seen walking around the Amazon room in white socks which may now be dirty, but the smile on his face is clean and wide. lol Queen High is Good! With the board reading {A-Hearts} {A-Clubs} {7-Spades} {4-Spades} {A-Diamonds} on the river, Tuan Nguyen checked, and Andrea Benelli bet 2,400. "I feel like my queen high is good here," said Benelli as he tossed out the bet. Nguyen made the call. Benelli indeed, turned over {Q-Diamonds} {5-Spades} for queen high, and it was the best hand. Nguyen claimed ten high as he mucked and Benelli raked in the pot. Warne Strikes Shane Warne has just doubled up against Andrew Li. All the chips were in the middle preflop with Warne's {A-Clubs}{A-Spades} in control against Li's {K-Spades}{K-Hearts}. The board landed {9-Hearts}{2-Diamond s}{J-Clubs}{9-Diamon ds}{8-Diamonds} and Warne claims a wicket to move to 109,000 Someone Call Peter Sellers The Pink Panther theme just randomly floated over the PA system of the Amazon Room for all of about ten seconds. Then, just as mysteriously, it stopped. Headphones Turn To Headaches A strange hand just went down between two unknown players. The first player announced "all in" without moving any of his 25,000 chips into the middle. The action passed to a player wearing headphones who announced "raise", not realizing that the earlier player had already moved all in. The mistake was pointed out and the floor was called. It was deemed that the verbal action was binding and the player would have to make a minimum raise. The other players folded and the cards were tabled. The first player held {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades} with the second player showing {K-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}. The board ran out {9-Clubs}{7-Diamonds }{6-Diamonds}{9-Hear ts}{2-Hearts} to give the first player a bizarre double up. Perhaps this acts as a handy lesson to headphone users to ensure that you always observe the action carefully! There Goes the Neighborhood Bit of a commotion over here at Table #1 in the Green section when Brian Schaedlich sat down in the empty seat, plopping down 300,000-plus chips in front of him. His tablemates were already murmuring when staff members arrived, along with the ESPN crew. "What's this?" thought those at the table. That's when they saw staff placing extra racks of chips on the table -- Schaedlich has so many he can't carry them all himself. About 760,000, to be precise. His tablemates have a little under a half an hour left today to deal with their menacing new neighbor. Final Words And our first Day 2 comes to an end. A refreshing day's play after the Groundhog Day feelings of all those Day 1's. The action was fast from the first moment and continued right through to the end of the day. Even though the average stack was very deep compared to the blinds, the fact that we had so many big stacks meant there was always going to be as many small stacks at the other end under continuous pressure. They kept falling and the big stacks just got bigger and bigger. One player in particular who couldn't miss a flop and seemed to outdraw anyone who stood in his way was Brian Shaedlich. Starting the day at just over 160,000, he manged to amass a mammoth stack nearing 750,000 by the end of play. Memories of Jamie Gold come to mind, let us see if he can hold on to the lead all the way as Jamie did back in 2006. As for tomorrow, let's hope it is more of the same. Join us from 12pm to see who will emerge from the masses to make a name for themselves. Good night from all at PokerNews in the Amazon Room. |
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Jeremy-1986 Senior member Posts: 1907 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:22 AM. Post 5 |
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amh11 Senior member Posts: 5343 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:26 AM. Post 6 |
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cheers muss Think headphones/music should be banned |
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amh11 Senior member Posts: 5343 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:27 AM. Post 7 |
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Not in a cultural,Talibanesque,cleansing way! Just at the table whilst playing |
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mussorgsky Enthusiast Posts: 7777 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:30 AM. Post 8 |
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lol, amh, thanks for the clarification |
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Jeremy-1986 Senior member Posts: 1907 |
RE: Some day 2a stuff from pokernewsJul 9, 2008 04:33 AM. Post 9 |
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