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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Day 8: Let the action continue
By Sarah Polson
Two final tables are underway as the 2008 World Series of Poker continues on with Events 7-12 today.
Event 7
The final table of the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event is underway and after not quite two hours of play two players are out and Theo Tran is continuing his dominating play.
Tran is up to more than $2 million in chips now, which is almost double what his nearest opponent has.
Alex Botin and Mike Lisanti are out, leaving Matt keikoan, Carter Gill, Shannon Shorr, J.C. Tran and Chris Bjorin.
On one hand Bolotin and J.C. Tran clashed with a resulting double-up for Tran. Tran moved all-in from middle position for roughly $110,000, and Bolotin reraised all-in for more than $200,000.
Tran showed Q
9 to Bolotin's A
J. The flop came 7
#5C3, missing both players. The turn brought a 9 and the river a 3 to give Tran the hand.
Check out the live updates of the event here
Event 8
The $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event just got underway at about 4 p.m. The final table of eight will play down to a winner today.
Stay tuned to the Live Tournaments section to see who of the following players hits the road and who ends up with a gold bracelet:
- Matt Glantz $1.1 million
- James "mig.com" Mackey: $742,000
- Tom "durrrr" Dwan: $642,000
- Michael DeMichelle: $434,000
- Sammy Farha: $374,000
- Anthony Rivera: $274,000
- Jeff Madsen: $149,000
- Eli Elezra: $76,000
Event 9
The second day of play for the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em got underway at 2 p.m. today with 71 players returning from the 1,236 entrants that started the event.
Matt Matros started the day as the chip leader, but he fell fast in status as his chip stack took some heavy hits. He was taken out of the tournament on a hand with Avery Cardoza.
Cardoza raised $5,500 from late position and was called by Matros. Both players checked the flop, and the turn, but when the river paired nines on the board, Cardoza bet $13,000 and Matros raised to $35,000. Cardoza went all-in and Matros called.
Matros had trip nines, but Cardoza had filled in a full house to knock Matros out.
Other casualties early on include Jared Hamby, Neil Channing and Brandon Lee.
Find out live updates for the event here.
Event 10
Perhaps play in the second day of the $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better will go a little faster. Day 1 started with 388 players and it was only cut down to 108 to start Day 2.
However, the first busts came pretty quickly after play started at 3 p.m. Doug Carli, Bryan Devonshire and Chris Reslock have already been knocked out.
One player who is faring well early on is Todd Brunson. He's picked up trips twice in the Seven-Card Stud Eight-or-Better round. The second time they fell his way, he was up against an opponent showing XX#2C34
#5dX.
A pretty threatening board in a Hi-Lo game, Todd called the players bet with his trips sixes and his opponent showed T-T-K in the whole.
For more action from Event 10, visit the Live Tournaments section.
Event 11
At noon, 360 players put up $5,000 to play in the No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event of the WSOP. In this event, a player must defeat his entire table of opponents before moving on to the next table.
There were plenty of poker pros to keep an eye on when the event started, and many have fallen out now.
Some of the players with the rest of the day to contemplate their bust outs are Nenad Medic, Jonathan Little, Justin Bonomo, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Ivey, Josh Arieh, Mike Sexton, David Williams, Jerry Yang, Jennifer Tilly, Mike Matusow, Jean-Robert Bellande, Clonie Gowen, Daniel Negreanu and more.
Jordan Morgan was recently busted in a hand with Bill Blanda. Blanda raised to $1,500, and Morgan reraised all-in for $7,800.
Blanda made the call and turned over pocket rockets to Morgan's K-J. The board ran K-8-4-A-3, and Morgan was eliminated. That leaves just Bill Blanda and Jacques Zaicik at that table.
Check out the Event 11 action here.
Event 12
The first Limit Hold'em event of the 2008 WSOP will get underway at 5 p.m. with a $1,500 buy-in.
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