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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Day 5: Chip up or chip out
By Sarah Polson
The secret password of today's game is rebuy, as Event 5 brought with it the opportunity to keep buying more chips to stay in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event.
Players from the other events continuing to play today were probably wishing they had that option as well. Players are falling left and right as Event 2 tries once again to get down to the final table and then finish today, while Events 3 and 4 play a second day and Event 6 will get under way at about 5 p.m. as well.
Event 2
Two Day 1's and a Day 2 just weren't enough to whittle the nearly 4,000-strong playing field of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event down to the final table. Play resumed today with 18 players still left, and players seemed to start falling pretty quickly.
Three players were out within the first hour of play, and after a couple more hours, play was down to 10. An hour later, still sans bustifications, it was decided to start the televised final table with 10 players after a two-hour dinner break.
Those player were James Akenhead, Aaron Coulthard, Theo Tran, Mike Ngo, Melvin Jones, Jeff Wiedenhoeft, Joe Rutledge, Grant Hinkle, David Bach and Chris Ferguson, who has brought himself back from the dead more than once in this tournament so far.
Two players have since hit the rail after final-table play began - Rutlege and Wiedenhoeft. Sometime tonight the event will find a winner, and PokerListings' top-notch reporting crew will be there to bring you all the details in the Live Tournaments section.
Event 3
Sixty-three players returned to the poker felt for Event 3, the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event, at 2 p.m. today. They will play down to the final nine, and it hasn't taken long for the casualties to start piling up. The field was already down into the 40s after about two hours of play, with Lou Esposito among the initial players sent off to collect their cash.
Esposito got caught all-in with A
8
against Robert Lipkin who was holding K
5. The board came Q2
JK8 to give Lipkin the win and Esposito the boot.
About seven hours from the start, play was down to the top 10, and Singer was the lone holdout for skipping the break to get to the final nine to just end things for the night. After 60 minutes for a little dinner, play resumed and a few hands later a player was at last eliminated to end the night.
The unlucky final-table bubbler was Ryan Fair. The players who will return Wednesday at 2 p.m. to finish the event are Joe Tehan, Jacobo Fernandez, Robert Lipkin, Al Barbieri, Russell Harriman, Zachary King, Singer and Gergory Alston.
Tehan will have a slight advantage as the chip leader, but Fernandez is close enough on his heels that they could almost be considered co-chip leaders.
Check out the Live Tournaments section to see who we swiped to interview from today's events and the best video updates from the 2008 WSOP.
Event 4
The $5,000 Mixed Hold'em Event started its second day at 3 p.m. today with 91 of 332 players returning. Early action saw Ralph Perry head to the rail along with Anna Wroblewski, Noah Boeken and more. On the other hand, David Williams took advantage early on and added at least $10,000 to his stack in the first hour. Some of his chips came from busting Boeken.
Williams raised under the gun and Boeken re-raised in the big blind. Williams called and the flop brought K-K-3. Boeken went all-in and Williams called, turning up QQ to Boeken's pocket fives. The turn brought a 6 and the river a nine to give Williams the hand.
Now that play is down to the low 20s, Williams is still in it, but he's squeezing all he can out of only about $10,000 in chips remaining.
The plan is for the event to play down to the top nine still tonight and some of the pros still in contention are Justin Bonomo, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Roland De Wolfe, Isaac Haxton, Chau Giang, Robert Williamson and Erick Lindgren.
Live updates will continue as our tournament reporters keep you updated on all the happenings from the Mixed Hold'em Event.
Event 5
Rebuy mania was the name of the game as today's poker action started at noon with the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Rebuy event. Players had the first couple levels to play as wildly as they wanted knowing they could just pony up another $1,000 for more chips to stay in the tournament.
No sooner had the first cards been dealt than calls for rebuys began coming from around the room as 766 players launched into battle. More than 500 players have already been eliminated today, and among the just barely more than 200 players left, there is still a large contingent of professional players.
Stars still in the mix include Daniel Negreanu, Michael Binger, John Juanda, Greg Raymer, Sorel Mizzi, Lee Watkinson, Phil Hellmuth, Clonie Gowan, Phil Ivey, Billy Baxter, Bill Edler, Victor Ramdin, Nam Le, Erica Schoenberg, J.J. Liu, Nenad Medic, Jamie Gold, Mike Matusow and more.
Event 6
The World Series broke the cycle of Hold'em this afternoon with the start of Event 6, $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better. More than 830 players came to play, and more than 200 have already found their way back to the rail.
Some players to watch include Shannon Elizabeth, who has managed to rake in quite a few chips already today, as well as Scott Clements, Robert Mizrachi, Bryan Devonshire, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Katja Thater, Todd Brunson, Allen Kessler, David Sklansky, David Levi, Jimmy Fricke and Amarillo Slim Preston.
Some of the pros who already busted out today are Miami John Cernuto, Jean-Robert Bellande, Chip Jett, Marcel Luske, Scotty Nguyen, Chad Brown, Kristy Gazes and Erik Seidel.
Ted Forrest was also among the busted after he got all his chips in on an board of AK62 while holding A677. He was looking good against his opponent's 2367, but a2 on the river left Forrest with no high and no low, and no chips.
See more action in the Live Tournaments section. PokerListings will continue to bring poker fans all the action from the Amazon Room at the Rio as the 2008 World Series continues its 39th season.
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