Go There Now: WSOP 2010 Day 5 Highlights

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Our daily WSOP news and entertainment show. This episode features cameos by Phil Hellmuth, Andy Bloch, Sam Stein, JP Kelly, Jay Rosenkrantz, Boris Becker, Erick Lindgren, Eli Elezra, John Duthie, Chris Moorman, Gavin Smith, Kathy Liebert, Phil Gordon, Robert and Michael Mizrachi, Chino Rheem and James Akenhead. If you like pros we’ve got ‘em.

Extra! Extra! WSOP News Right Here

Michael Mizrachi won the first and most prestigious event of the summer, taking down the $50,000 Players Championship. Our very own Rod Stirzaker sat down with the Grinder to see how he liked it in the spotlight.

Click here to hear what Michael Mizrachi had to say.

We’ve got a wrap-up of all the ongoing events, headlined by the biggest story of the night. Click here for that.

$25k + 90 Minutes = $25,000 Freeroll

Andy Bloch had a chance at winning $25,000. All he had to do was eat 24 cupcakes in 90 minutes. Click here for the full Andy Bloch $25k cupcake story.

For the Love of Live Updates

The $5k Shootout is playing to a final table today and we’ve got full live coverage. Check out chip counts, live updates and photos of the $5k WSOP Shootout right here.

The $1k final table is playing out as we speak and we’ve got all the action. Click here for coverage of the $1k final table.

Tomorrow we’ve got coverage starting in the $10k Seven-Stud Championship right here.

Robert and Michael Mizrachi WSOP 2010 Video Interview

We caught the Mizrachi brothers as they were getting ready for the $50,000 Players Championship final table. Check the video.

 

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Across The Amazon: WSOP 2010 Snapshot

Event #5 – $1.5k No-Limit Hold’em

The players have played down to a final table already – multiple WSOP casher Yuval Bronshtein just missing out on a final table spot.

U.K. player Praz Bansi, who like November Niner James Akenhead is a member of the Hit Squad, has made the final table and is gunning for his second bracelet to add to the one he picked up in 2006 for winning the $1k No-Limit Hold’em tournament.

Event #7 – $2.5k 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

The niche events are always a big draw for the big poker pros. They’re smart enough to know the fields will be smaller and they have a great shot at nailing a bracelet.

With all the bracelet bets floating around, it’s no surprise to see guys like Ted Forrest, Eli Elezra and Hoyt Corkins at the top of the leaderboard right now with 54 players left.

Event #8 – $1.5k No-Limit Hold’em

Another donkament is just 6 hours old but already the donkalicious 2.3k field has been streamlined to a more manageable 1.2k, with names like Phil Gordon and Brock Parker joining the reams of relative unknowns pouring out of the Rio exit.

Usually these tournaments throw up a new champion so expect us to be crowning a brand new WSOP bracelet holder in just a few days.

 

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Across The Amazon: WSOP 2010 Snapshot

Event #5 – $1.5k No-Limit Hold’em

The players have played down to a final table already – multiple WSOP casher Yuval Bronshtein just missing out on a final table spot.

U.K. player Praz Bansi, who like November Niner James Akenhead is a member of the Hit Squad, has made the final table and is gunning for his second bracelet to add to the one he picked up in 2006 for winning the $1k No-Limit Hold’em tournament.

Event #7 – $2.5k 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

The niche events are always a big draw for the big poker pros. They’re smart enough to know the fields will be smaller and they have a great shot at nailing a bracelet.

With all the bracelet bets floating around, it’s no surprise to see guys like Ted Forrest, Eli Elezra and Hoyt Corkins at the top of the leaderboard right now with 54 players left.

Event #8 – $1.5k No-Limit Hold’em

Another donkament is just 6 hours old but already the donkalicious 2.3k field has been streamlined to a more manageable 1.2k, with names like Phil Gordon and Brock Parker joining the reams of relative unknowns pouring out of the Rio exit.

Usually these tournaments throw up a new champion so expect us to be crowning a brand new WSOP bracelet holder in just a few days.

 

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WSOP: The two brothers Mizrachi at the final table of the Event # 2 – Poker 777

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Go There Now: WSOP Day 4 Highlights

WSOP Live!

You Can’t Handle the News!

The biggest story at the WSOP so far is how both Michael and Robert Mizrachi both made the final table of the $50k Players Championship.

We spoke with Mike about it to find out what it’s like.

Click here to read about the Mizrachi brothers at the final table of the WSOP $50k.

Durrrr-Watch 2010

We’ve got a pair of installments in our ongoing blog series durrrr-Watch 2010. Read about how durrrr got the boot from a players-only area for not having his tournament receipt and how he had a little joke played on him by Jay Rosenkrantz.

Live Coverage Up the Ying Yang

The $50,000 Players Championship final table is ongoing as we speak and with some big, big names this should be a real test of skill for the eventual winner. Click here to follow along live on our WSOP $50k Players Championship live update page.

The first $1,000 event of the summer is playing down to a final table and we’re shipping full coverage. Click here to check out the WSOP $1,000 event live updates.

One of our favorite events, the $5,000 Shootout, began today. There were some really cool table draws and we’re updating the whole thing. Click here for the $5,000 No-Limit Shootout live updates.

Jason Mercier Pro Blogger Update

Jason Mercier busted out of the $1,500 No-Limit event and took some time to kick it by the pool. Naturally we joined him.

 

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Randy Couture Lasts Three Rounds at WSOP 2010

His original table broke in level two and he got some railbirds at his next table, but not as many as I was expecting. He took few pictures with fans and continued to show just what an amateur he was. Several times while trying to toss his chips in the pot they would roll in all different directions across the table. He also turned his cards over at the end of every hand to allow the dealer to explain what he had made.

When the first break was announced he immediately put his hat and sunglasses on and then proceeded to use the oldest trick in the book to avoid contact with anyone: pretend to be on the phone and jet out the door.

His return from the 20-minute break didn’t last long. He was knocked out early in round three.

On the bright side, at least it was one more round than his last bout with Chuck Liddell.

 

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WSOP Europe: A wonderful program not to miss – Poker 777

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Stout’s $25k WPT Championship Wrap-Up

Day 4 of the Bellagio $25k got off to an extremely slow start for me, which was in no way indicative of how the rest of the day would go.  However, I’ll kick things off with one of the greatest quotes I’ve ever heard at a poker table.

After Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Nikolay Evdakov had been chatting back and forth in Russian a bit at the table (which is not allowed, but we let it go for a few minutes because we were sure it wasn’t malicious/shady), the dealer finally asked them to stop.  

Yevgeniy replied, “It’s OK, we’re just talking about pierogies and snow and shit.”  (NOTE: I have decided that it’s been long enough since “Rounders” jokes were being overused, and are now funny again.  Proceed with caution, though.)

Oh yeah, the poker.  That wasn’t going so well, which is why the comic relief was so crucial.  I lost every pot I played for a few hours.  It got so absurd that my friend Cliff Josephy re-raised me and I decided that I was going to knock down his entire chip stack before folding. =)  He chuckled and showed me the Ace and the King.

I had spread about a third of the chips I’d started the day with around the felt at my first table.  Then I got to a new one with Nikolay Evdakov, Billy Baxter, Brian Lemke, Faraz Jaka, and J.J. Liu.
This presented an opportunity I’d been waiting a long time for.  

For those of you who don’t know, Billy Baxter is an olllllllllllld school poker pro and was the man who convinced the Supreme Court of the United States that poker winnings should qualify as income, not just a gambling win.

What this means is that poker pros are taxed at a much lower (still brutal, but much lower) rate and that they are able to write off buy ins and expenses.  Without Billy’s help I doubt I’d be able to truthfully file my taxes without going broke.  

I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to thank him for this huge favor he’s done for poker pros, and I took it and got the story of fighting with the Supreme Court straight from the horse’s mouth.

Oh yea, the Bellagio tournament, right.  So anyway, I was down to 630k at 6/12k when I got to that table with 27 players remaining and 18 spots paid.  

Suddenly I decided it was time to go on a superheater.  I coolered and stacked my buddy Brian Lemke with Aces against his Kings for a ~900k pot.  

Then I took a couple pots from my buddy Faraz “thet0ilet” Jaka, one with a flush draw that rivered top pair and one when he tried to bluff the river and I hero called.

Suddenly I went from having a boring day where I was slowly siphoning off chips to having over 2 million and the chip lead with 21 players left and 19.5 million in play.  The blinds were only 8/16k, and I was LOVING my chances at making another WPT final table…

…Then it happened.  Disaster struck.  The toilet flushed.  Well, not really…he made a straight and a boat.  No flushes.

I lost one pot to Faraz when he tried to semi-bluff me on the turn with an open-ended straight draw.  I called with second pair and decided I would also pay him off when he rivered the straight.

Then he was back up to about 2 million and the chip lead, but I wasn’t far behind with a little over 1.5 million.  He raised the cutoff to 40k @ 8/16k, and I called from the small blind with K♣ Q♣.  He led 54k on a T♣ 9♠ 3♦ flop, and I called.  The turn was the J♦, and I check-raised his 150k bet to 380k.  He called, and the river was the J♥.  I checked and called an 800k bet, and he showed me the bad news: J♣ 9♦.

It really sucked going from chip leader with 21 left to being crippled with 20 left, I’ll be honest.  I refused to give up and kept shoving in good spots, which fortunately never got called.  

I managed to squeeze into the money with 18 left and onto Day 5 with a meager ~250k stack at 10/20k.  I got it in with A♦ J♠ against Faraz’s A♥ 5♥ for a ~600k pot, but a Q-9-9-Q-x board chopped that one right up.

A few hands later I shoved the cutoff and got it in with A♣ 7♦ against David Williams’ 6♥ 6♦.  The board by the turn was K-Q-9-9, but David managed to fade everything and bust me for a ~700k pot.

I think it’s pretty clear that this wasn’t how I planned on wrapping up the tournament.  Being 1/21 and finishing 17th sucks.  I’m not losing any sleep over it, though, because I feel that I played my best game and got extremely unlucky.  

I’d be pretty pissed at myself if I’d punted it, but I definitely didn’t feel that I’d punted this stack.  

Once again, “The game is the game.  I’m at peace with my play.”

Matt Stout

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