2011 World Series of Poker

Tag 2 beendet

gepostet 2011-06-15 10:26 GMT von 123md

Day 3 Table and Seat Draw

gepostet 2011-06-15 10:21 GMT von 123md • Level 18

Racener Looking for Checkered Flag

gepostet 2011-06-15 10:10 GMT von SantanaBandana • Level 18

What they're all chasing - the WSOP Gold Bracelet

Day 2 of Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix is in the books, and after ten levels of play, John Racener is our chip leader with 363,600 chips. After the dinner break, Racener swiftly ascended the ranks, becoming one of the first players to break the 100,000-chip mark.

Racener isn't the only player with a big stack though, Mayu Roca Uribe (327,100), Adam Geyer (278,800), and Adam Kornuth (241,200) are all over 200,000 chips and biting at Racener's heels.

We entered the day with 210 players, and en route to making the money at 48, we lost a ton of great players including Scott Clements, Greg Mueller, Allen Bari, Frank Kassela, Josh Arieh, Bryn Kenney, Victor Ramdin, Noah Boeken and last year's champion in this event; Sigurd Eskeland.

Eleven-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth also fell short of the money. He busted in 75th place after getting the remainder of his short stack in the middle with during a no limit hold'em rotation. Shaun Deeb looked him up with , and held when the board ran .

Deeb barely creeped into the money himself with a 47th place finish. He lost consecutive pots at his table near the bubble, and after it burst he was quickly out the door. Deeb actually helped burst the bubble, eliminating Bruno Benveniste in a four-way Omaha eight or better hand.

Joining Deeb on the rail after the money bubble were Gabriel Nassif, Jimmy Fricke, Eric Baldwin, Dan Kelly, and 2011 bracelet winners Brian Rast and Eugene Katchalov.

John Juanda, another 2011 bracelet winner, is in contention for his second bracelet of the series. He has 187,000 chips, and is a few tables away from his 28th WSOP final table.

The action resumes tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST, right here in the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites and Casino Resort. We will play down to a champion - unless ten levels passes before that time. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for up-to-the-minute updates from this and every bracelet event at the 2011 WSOP.

Good night from Las Vegas!

Tags: John Racener.

Three Hands Left

gepostet 2011-06-15 10:01 GMT von EricRamsey • Level 18

The clock has been paused with ten minutes left, and we'll play three more hands at each table, then call it a night. The cocktail server was just coming through the tables, and it's a time when a lot of players like to order a celebratory drink or three. It was surprisingly quiet around the tables, except for Michele Limongi who ordered, "Another espresso, just like the last one." To each his own.

We'll skip the coffee for tonight -- it is 3:00 in the morning, dear lord -- but those cocktails do sound pretty good right about now.

Table 370 Chip Counts

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:43 GMT von 123md

Chipcounts
Adam Geyer			230,000	-10,000
John Juanda			195,000	15,000
Ben Yu			173,000	-68,000
Sirous Baghchehsaraie			118,000	-43,000
Rami Boukai			109,000	58,000
Gregory Dyer			90,000	20,000
Sanjay Pandya			31,000	-61,000

Table 369 Chip Counts

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:37 GMT von 123md

Chipcounts
John Monnette			216,000	89,000
Ylon Schwartz			205,000	30,000
Hooman Nikzad			179,000	79,000
Eric Buchman			140,000	50,000
Marco Traniello			80,000	-9,000
Robert Rosengarten			45,000	-61,000

Less For Mourshaki

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:35 GMT von EricRamsey • Level 18

Omaha 8/b

Mikko Pispala, John Racener, and Ebrahim Mourshaki were mixed up in a three-way pot when we joined just after the flop action was complete. It read , and everyone put in two small bets to go to the turn. Pispala checked first to act, and Racener put out the big bet of 10,000. Mourshaki made the call, getting short on chips now, and Pispala tanked and folded out of the way.

The river came the , and Racener bet again. This time, Mourshaki's call put him all in for less, and the cards were shown down. Well, Racener's cards were. He tabled for deuces full, and it was good. Mourshaki sent his cards into the muck, and he'll wander to the payout desk to pick up a check for his efforts over the past two days.

Tags: Ebrahim Mourshaki, John Racener, Mikko Pispala.

Table 372 Chip Counts

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:29 GMT von 123md

Chipcounts
John Racener			335,000	150,000
Brent Hanks			130,000	30,000
Shawn Buchanan			123,000	26,000
Mikko Pispala			118,000	-78,000
Owais Ahmed			67,000	22,000
Desmond Portano			56,000	-39,000
Ebrahim Mourshaki			30,000	-5,000

MmmmmmmmYeah

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:28 GMT von SantanaBandana

When we reached the table, Brent Hanks and Ebrahim Mourshaki were heads up with the board reading . Hanks checked, Mourshaki bet, Hanks made it two bets, Mourshaki made it three, and Hanks made it four. Mourshaki tank-called.

The river was the , and Hanks led out. Mourshaki called, and Hanks opened for a pair of eights. Mourshaki mucked, and Hanks pulled in the pot.

Chipcounts
Brent Hanks			120,000	45,000
Ebrahim Mourshaki			35,000	-70,000

Tags: Brent Hanks, Ebrahim Mourshaki.

Table 373 Chip Counts

gepostet 2011-06-15 09:23 GMT von 123md

Chipcounts
Mayu Roca Uribe			265,000	177,000
Adam Kornuth			244,000	24,000
Michele Limongi			122,000	-13,000
Max Pescatori			82,000	-26,000
Nikolay Evdakov			75,000	41,000
David Stroj			40,000	10,000
Konstantin Puchkov			30,000	-37,000