Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em Giorno 1 | 2011 World Series of Poker

2011-06-29 20:58 UTC

The Stars Are Out

Livello 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

Speaking of PokerStars...

Their Team Pros are out in full force today. Have a look at the roster we've accumulated so far, and remember there are still more than two hours left in late registration.

Tony Hachem (Australia)
Johnny Lodden (Norway)
Dag Palovic (Slovakia)
Martin Hruby (Czech Republic)
Jude Ainsworth (Ireland)
Liv Boeree (United Kingdom)
Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica)
Alex Gomes (Brazil)
Gualter Salles (Brazil)
Vanessa Rousso (USA)
Vanessa Selbst (USA)
Victor Ramdin (USA)
David Williams (USA)
Jonathan Duhamel (Canada)

We also have Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville of Belgium here, and Randy "nanonoko" Lew of Team Online stardom. There's also one more member of Team Online in the house, but we'll incriminate ourselves and tell you we've don't recognize him by sight. We'll get a name to go with the face shortly.

Tags: PokerStars

2011-06-29 21:00 UTC

One Pair is a Go For Ho

Livello 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

After a flop of {a-Clubs} {k-Spades} {4-Diamonds} , the player under the gun bet 475 and Maria Ho called from the button. Both women checked when the {9-Clubs} fell on the turn and the river brought the {8-Clubs} . The first player checked again and Ho bet 650. The other player called and Ho showed her {a-Diamonds} {j-Spades} which was good enough to take the pot.

Ho now has 9,400 in her stack with no rebuy chips behind. Her table will definitely be one to watch today as it also contains Kevin Saul and Melanie Weisner.

Tags: Maria Ho

2011-06-29 21:00 UTC

Not Andy Black's Day

Livello 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

During a four-way flop with a {j-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} board, there was a bet, call and fold to Andy Black. He jokingly said to Mark Schmid and McLean Karr, the two remaining players in the hand, "I'm going to let you ladies go at it," before mucking his cards. The hand was played out without anymore words exchanged between the players and Schmid ended up winning a pot worth about 2,200 chips.

Tim West, however, was not happy with Black's antics. He voiced his displeasure to Black about his comments and made it clear that he didn't want Black to act like that when he (West) was involved in a hand. Black seemed a little surprised and after West left for break, approached Karr to sort things out.

Tags: Andy Black Mark Schmid McLean Karr Tim West

2011-06-29 21:01 UTC

Break Time

Livello 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

Players are now on their first 20-minute break of the day.

Livello: 3

Bui: 75/150

Ante: 0

2011-06-29 21:44 UTC

Late Reg-aments

Livello 3 : 75/150, 0 ante

There are about a half-dozen late-registration tables in play, and they're pretty tough.

At one of the tables sits Antonio Esfandiari, Nenad Medic, Jason Young, Anthony Newman, Kevin Eyster, and Brent Hanks.

Adjacent to them is a table with Vanessa Peng, Jason Potter, Lex Veldhuis, and Brandon Cantu.

A couple tables over there's another tough one with Mohsin Charania, Kyle Bowker, Josh Arieh, and Vladimir Geshkenbein.

And finally, we see Jon Aguiar, Andrew Lichtenberger, and Ivan Demidov all together, too.

2011-06-29 21:46 UTC

Updated Chip Counts

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
	57,000
Lars Bonding	26,500 11,500	11,500
Michael Leah	20,000 5,000	5,000
Vitaly Lunkin	19,000 4,000	4,000

Mark Schmid	19,000 4,000	4,000

Allen Bari	19,000 4,000	4,000

Blair Hinkle	18,000 3,000	3,000

David Benyamine	15,500

Steve Watts	14,500 -500	-500
Dan Smith	12,500 -2,500	-2,500

Darryll Fish	12,300 -2,700	-2,700
Tony Dunst	8,600 -6,400	-6,400

	8,000 -7,000	-7,000
Ali Eslami	7,100 -7,900	-7,900

	5,000 -10,000	-10,000

2011-06-29 22:02 UTC

Duhamel Doing Work

A player in late position raised to 300 and Jonathan Duhamel re-raised to 800 from the hijack. Action folded back to the original raiser who opted to call. The flop came {k-Hearts} {k-Diamonds} {4-Spades} , and the first player check-called a bet of 925 from Duhamel. When the {j-Spades} came on the turn both players checked and they saw the {7-Spades} hit on the river. The first player checked a third time and Duhamel fired out a bet of 2,325. The other player tossed his cards into the muck and Duhamel took the pot.

On the very next hand action folded to Duhamel who raised to 400 and everyone folded giving him another small pot.

After the hands Duhamel had 11,600 in his stack.

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Jonathan Duhamel	11,600 -3,400	-3,400

Tags: Jonathan Duhamel

2011-06-29 22:04 UTC

More Chip Counts

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Filippo Candio	27,500 12,500	12,500
Justin Young	24,000
Dan Kelly	18,000
Andre Akkari	15,100 100	100

Andy Frankenberger	12,500 -2,500	-2,500

Sam Stein	10,000 -5,000	-5,000
Martins Adeniya	9,800 -5,200	-5,200
	8,800
	3,700 -1,300	-1,300
Faraz Jaka	Eliminato

2011-06-29 22:07 UTC

Bowker Bows Out

Kyle Bowker was down around 3,000 chips when he three-bet shoved into Mohsin Charania's opening raise. (Word on the street is that Bowker ran pocket aces into pocket kings earlier in the day.) Charania quickly made the call with {Q-} {Q-} , and Bowker's {K-} {Q-} was in a world of trouble.

The board ran out {2-} {8-} {q-} {j-} {7-} , and Bowker was already drawing dead with one to come. He's gone, and Charania needed that pot as it boosts his stack back to about 11,200.

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Mohsin Charania	11,200 -3,800	-3,800

Kyle Bowker	Eliminato

Tags: Mohsin Charania Kyle Bowker