And they're off.... WSOP 2008 Event No: 1 Pot-Limit Holdem

coillcam

Just kicked off this evening, as expected a compact and star studded field is inattendance, covered thoroughly as usual by cardplayer and pokernews.

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/event-1-10000-plhe-world-championship/blog/day1/

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/live_updates/14399

Bandara

wow......


"No Royal Treatment Here

Kathy Liebert and Jan Von Halle to her right were just involved in a hand in which Liebert checked the river and Von Halle checked behind. Sure, this isn't too big of a deal, but Von Halle checked behind with a royal flush.

As soon as the hands were turned over, Andy Black, Joe Seebok, and Amnon Filippi all jumped from their seats and yelled for the floor to come over. Von Halle was given a warning for collusion as he checked the absolute nuts last to act on the river.

The other players at the table chuckled, but all understand the seriousness that can ensue. The tournament directors that came to the table didn't find this a laughing matter at all."

cuterob

there's only a couple of names i haven't heard of before in that field.. all the unknowns will be playing the 1500 tomorrow.. all these 10k events should be good..cant wait to see the mixed event though

coillcam

Hammertime wrote: »

wow......


"No Royal Treatment Here

Kathy Liebert and Jan Von Halle to her right were just involved in a hand in which Liebert checked the river and Von Halle checked behind. Sure, this isn't too big of a deal, but Von Halle checked behind with a royal flush.

As soon as the hands were turned over, Andy Black, Joe Seebok, and Amnon Filippi all jumped from their seats and yelled for the floor to come over. Von Halle was given a warning for collusion as he checked the absolute nuts last to act on the river.

The other players at the table chuckled, but all understand the seriousness that can ensue. The tournament directors that came to the table didn't find this a laughing matter at all."

Jan Von Halle = Katja Thater's other half BTW, apparantly a proker pro too. Never heard of him before this evening when I saw his name in her wikipedia entry.

coillcam

Common sense my arse...........


From pokernews.com upsates:

" A Min-Raise or a Max-Raise? "

After several players had limped in, including Jamie Gold, a middle-position player announced "raise" and tossed in a single 5,000 denomination orange chip into the pot without making a verbal declaration of the amount of the raise. As the players at the table as well as the dealer disagreed whether his action should be ruled a min-raise or a max-raise (in this case the max would be 4,800 as it's pot-limit) the floor was called over.

The player's action was declared to be a minimum raise, though the majority of the table disagreed with the ruling, as typically when a player bets with an oversized chip without declaring the amount of the raise, the bet stands at the amount of that chip.

Jamie Gold called the minimum raise and the two players went to the flop, where Gold check-folded to a bet.

"You just cost me 1,200. You'd better not do that again" seethed Gold, who was left with only 3,100 after the hand.

jimmii

Pretty bad form to play like that even against your other half. Just bet and then give her a wink which you have already agreed on being a fold. That way its perfectly legit.....

Also according to the text Juanda had a Royal as well but it wasn't mentioned that he had it only that all five royals were diamonds two royals already would be a bit much!

NickyOD

coillcam wrote: »

Jan Von Halle = Katja Thater's other half BTW, apparantly a proker pro too. Never heard of him before this evening when I saw his name in her wikipedia entry.

Yeah he does a lot of blogging/writing for the German media. I have no idea how the man pulled a bird like Katja. It wasn't for his looks OR his personality.

eagle eye

I'd be doing hand stands if I got to kick out that ugly horrible creature. Wtf was he doing checking behind

coillcam

jimmii wrote: »

Pretty bad form to play like that even against your other half. Just bet and then give her a wink which you have already agreed on being a fold. That way its perfectly legit.....
!

FYI.

Kathy Liebert was in the hand vs Jan Von Halle

Katja Thater is Jan Von Halle's other half, re-read the original post.



Kathy Liebert:



Katja Thater:

jimmii

coillcam wrote: »

FYI.

Kathy Liebert was in the hand vs Jan Von Halle

Katja Thater is Jan Von Halle's other half, re-read the original post.

Oh dear god thats not a mistake you would want to be making. Now the whole thing is even more wrong.

Scouser in Dub

eagle eye wrote: »

I'd be doing hand stands if I got to kick out that ugly horrible creature. Wtf was he doing checking behind

wtf has Kathy Liebert done to offend you

Bandara

wtf has her looks got to do with anything?

She's a f**king good pro, 60 cashes and multiple wsop final tables.

She a poker player, shes not claiming to be a model

pokerkingsni

Hammertime wrote: »

The other players at the table chuckled, but all understand the seriousness that can ensue. The tournament directors that came to the table didn't find this a laughing matter at all."

Did i read somewhere that in the WSOP if you check the nuts on the river it's a 20 minute penalty? Anyone know what the TD did here?

A royal flush is the nuts, right??:rolleyes:

coillcam

Pokerkingsni, I'd say your not too far off the mark there with the time penalty.

In other news, Harrah's in their esteemed wisdom only outdone by their swollen coffers and stupidity have spent a fortune on high spec electronics such as plasmas, projectors, etc for the tournament. Only for the clock that they are using to be running faster than it should resulting in 64 minutes of Harrah's time for each blind level in the tournament as opposed to 60 minutes of real time. Apparantly some innocent on-looking spectator type bloke spotted the error when he timed the levels against his watch.

NickyOD

Hammertime wrote: »

wtf has her looks got to do with anything?

She's a f**king good pro, 60 cashes and multiple wsop final tables.

She a poker player, shes not claiming to be a model

To be fair, she really is belted.

cooker3

coillcam wrote: »

Pokerkingsni, I'd say your not too far off the mark there with the time penalty.

In other news, Harrah's in their esteemed wisdom only outdone by their swollen coffers and stupidity have spent a fortune on high spec electronics such as plasmas, projectors, etc for the tournament. Only for the clock that they are using to be running faster than it should resulting in 64 minutes of Harrah's time for each blind level in the tournament as opposed to 60 minutes of real time. Apparantly some innocent on-looking spectator type bloke spotted the error when he timed the levels against his watch.

Haha, quality. Still more play!

ArmaniJeanss

coillcam wrote: »

Only for the clock that they are using to be running faster than it should resulting in 64 minutes of Harrah's time for each blind level in the tournament as opposed to 60 minutes of real time.

The cast of Lost should play in the next event.

opr

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

The cast of Lost should play in the next event.

Opr

mdwexford

Raptor pwning PA, revenge for the 25k HU debacle imo.

Will win easy.

phantom_lord

first some gossip then the hand: ivey is taking bets at 1.8:1 that he wins a bracelet this year. Andy Bloch has 180k on it, ted forrest has 500, eli elezra (who was sitting next to me and told me this directly) has 500k on it too. i heard Greg Raymer took action but im not sure of the amount.

i keep raising the full potsize preflop (important because we are playing pot limit) and when i do it vs negreanu's blind, before folding he tells me im raising too big and that i should make it smaller.

he asks "is that what you would do in no limit?"
gabe: "i dont play no limit"
dn: "well what do you play?"
gabe:" i dont really play poker, my parents just paid for me to play this"
dn:"oooh you got rich parents?"
gabe:"yea they are well off"
dn: "real estate??"
gabe:"yup"

then he leaned to guy next to him and whispers something right after this conversation, which im sure was about me but not sure what he said.

a few hands later he minraises, i call with ATo on button, old nit in blind calls. i have been splashing around alot and they have both been pretty tight.

flop T45, checked to me i bet 2/3 of the pot, old guy check raises me, i call.

turn K, he bets a little more than half, i call. i thought about folding because this was over an hour in and hadnt seen the guy raise anything.

river 4, he checks which makes me pretty sure i have the best hand, although he could have jacks. i bet the pot (remember i almost folded the turn, now im making a huge value bet), old guy calls and shows QT.

hand doesnt seem like too much ownage but getting value from an OLD GUY when i have 2nd pair is pretty sick imo.

BUT main point is while im collecting chips, negreanu makes eye contact and gives me a little head nod type of thing because he was watching the hand closely. i also talked to him some about the canadian football league and even got him to say 'atta boy!!' the first time i didnt raise full pot on his big blind

HoLLLLLaments

whos that shane?

phantom_lord

gp

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/wsop-thread-and-stuff-t71518.html

Lazare

cooker3 wrote: »

Haha, quality. Still more play!

No, before it was spotted the clock was running fast, ie, less play.

Lurker1977

Counts for Nine

Here are the counts we have at the moment. Official ones will be along soon.

Andy Bloch $2,115,000
Nenad Medic $1,200,000
Mike Sexton $1,130,000
Mike Sowers $675,000
Amit Makhija $525,000
Chris Bell $455,000
Phil Laak $425,000
Kathy Liebert $285,000
Patrik Antonius $230,000




Level: 21
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Average Stack: $782,222
Players Left: 9
Tables Left: 1

LuckyLloyd

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Tar.Aldarion

'I don't want to live vicariously through your failures. plz succeed more in the future.'
He he he

The Al Lad

Andy B tearing up the Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooo

Andy Bloch 4,930,000
Mike Sexton 895,000
Nenad Medic 810,000
Kathy Liebert 570,000

Ollieboy

The Al Lad wrote: »

Andy B tearing up the Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooo

Andy Bloch 4,930,000
Mike Sexton 895,000
Nenad Medic 810,000
Kathy Liebert 570,000

Yeh really fancy Block on this final table and with 4 left and the amount of walks he's getting in the blinds.

The Al Lad

Ollieboy wrote: »

Yeh really fancy Block on this final table and with 4 left and the amount of walks he's getting in the blinds.

Andy Bloch 3605000
Nenad Medic 1910000
Mike Sexton 1400000
Kathy Liebert 465000

Now he's doubling every one up lol

The Al Lad

The Al Lad wrote: »

Andy Bloch 3605000
Nenad Medic 1910000
Mike Sexton 1400000
Kathy Liebert 465000

Now he's doubling every one up lol

Seems to be donating chips to everyone, 2 Milloin gone in an hour

Andy Bloch 2980000
Nenad Medic 2335000
Mike Sexton 1180000
Kathy Liebert 905000

hotspur

Medic is a hell of a player.

ianmc38

yeha Medic is phenomenal.

aidankk

dam wish he held his run until the ME ive got him at 250-1 to final table....

Looks like value tough..:D

aidankk

:eek::eek:he is still available at 250-1 to FT the Main Event same price as Robert Varkonyi:o

This is value get on before PP wake up..

Simplicity

aidankk wrote: »

:eek::eek:he is still available at 250-1 to FT the Main Event same price as Robert Varkonyi:o

This is value get on before PP wake up..

Took a small piece. Still at 250/1

Marq

aidankk wrote: »

This is value

lol. it's relative value. but it's far from value.

Daithio

aidankk wrote: »

:eek::eek:he is still available at 250-1 to FT the Main Event same price as Robert Varkonyi:o

This is value get on before PP wake up..

That's an awful bet.

ianmc38

Pretty sick lineup left in the mixed holdem:

Event 4 - Mixed Hold 'Em - Levels 15 and 16

Blinds/Antes: 500/1000 limit, 200/400 no-limit

Players Remaining: 91 of 332

Average Stack: 36,500

Chip Counts:
Ariel Schneller - 105,000
Jimmy Fricke - 88,000
Jon Turner - 87,000
Adam Westell - 86,000
Gavin Griffin - 82,800
Jay Rosenkrantz - 75,500
Justin Bonomo - 73,900
David Williams - 67,000
Nick Mao - 61,000
Maria Ho - 55,000

Heisenberg.

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BigCityBanker

Its pretty obvious to me that Nenad Medic gained so much confidence from knocking me out of the FTOPS event that he is now on a sick heater inspired by the confidence he gained by knocking out such a high profile player as me. gg Medic

BigCityBanker

ianmc38 wrote: »

Pretty sick lineup left in the mixed holdem:

Event 4 - Mixed Hold 'Em - Levels 15 and 16

Blinds/Antes: 500/1000 limit, 200/400 no-limit

Players Remaining: 91 of 332

Average Stack: 36,500

Chip Counts:
Ariel Schneller - 105,000
Jimmy Fricke - 88,000
Jon Turner - 87,000
Adam Westell - 86,000
Gavin Griffin - 82,800
Jay Rosenkrantz - 75,500
Justin Bonomo - 73,900
David Williams - 67,000
Nick Mao - 61,000
Maria Ho - 55,000

Full list here, seriously tough field

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/event-4-5000-mixed-holdem/chip-counts/day2/

5starpool

Jimmy Fricke isn't doing bad for "a weird dude and a bit of a freak"......

BigCityBanker

5starpool wrote: »

Jimmy Fricke isn't doing bad for "a weird dude and a bit of a freak"......

Hey Dom it may be worth stickying this as a WSOP discussion thread?

eagle eye

And on that BCB, I have one for you. My good friend Anthony Young is over there for the entire wsop. He played in event no.2 and finished 62nd for a nice payout of $ 11,262. He was telling me this morning that he is probably going to enter the omaha hi/lo today.

Norwich Fan Rob

nice result for mr young, a good player.
i saw they got almost 4k runners in that event no 2, if thats the fields they are gonna get for all the $1500 nlh, then wowzers.
i also see londoner james akenhead who knocked me out of newcastle 4 tables out is 2nd in chips in this with 18 left........