Event 31 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

Event 31 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed

Day 1 Completed

06-17-2008 07:27 UTC-7

Day 1 Official Chip Counts Released

[user33020]

Overnight, the WSOP has released the official chip counts for the 73 players who bagged up chips at the end of Day 1 play. The 73 who will return on Tuesday for Day 2 action are led by Alon Shahar with 264,100 in chips, with the top ten as follows:

Alon Shahar 264,100
Dario Minieri 191,600
Justin Filtz 180,200
Randall Brueckner 131,100
Frank Rusnak 127,800
Michael Skomac 123,700
Ed Fernandez 121,800
Andrew Emory 121,400
Cory Albertson 120,500
Brendan Keenan 119,100

Tags: Alon Shahar Dario Minieri

06-17-2008 01:03 UTC-7

End of Day One

[user4144]

Play recommences tomorrow at 2pm.

Chip counts should be updated at some point during the night.

06-17-2008 00:57 UTC-7

Marshak Takes One Down at the Death

[user4144]

On the very last hand of the night, Stuart Marshak won a circa 30,000 pot, his 7,000 bet on the river of a {9-Clubs}

board being called down by his opponent after extensive deliberation that ran down the last couple of minutes of the clock.

Marshak showed {J-Clubs}

, which was good enough to take the pot.

06-17-2008 00:53 UTC-7

Ups and Down for Foltyn

[user4144]

Paul Foltyn, who has finished the day with around 20,000, claims to have "folded the last level". However, he will be relieved to have made the cash, surviving the bubble in dramatic circumstances when his pocket jacks held up against A-Q, a queen on the turn being followed by a jack on the river.

Whilst that pot gave him around 50,000 in chips, he was unable to build on his newly acquired stack, a later A-Q versus eights encounter seeing his stack once again bisected in half.

Still, he returns tomorrow, and is more than capable of running deep, as he proved when he made the final in this very event a couple years back.

Tags: Paul Foltyn

06-17-2008 00:47 UTC-7

Play Has Now Ended

[user46392]

Play has now finished for the day. Our remaining players are bagging up their chips and most likely dreaming hungrily of the bar or their respective beds.

06-17-2008 00:38 UTC-7

Skomac Running Well

[user4144]

Michael Skomac just raised to 3,300 preflop from the button, but folded to an all in push by a short-stacked Sebastian Ruthenberg in the big blind.

Skomac is still running well though, his head well above water with 101,000.

Tags: Michael Skomac

06-17-2008 00:32 UTC-7

Michael Schwartz Eliminated

[user4144]

Michael Schwartz has been eliminated from today's event. He exits in 81st place for $4,189.

Tags: Michael Schwartz

06-17-2008 00:27 UTC-7

Just in Time for Filtz

[user4144]

As his stack was beginning to dwindle, Justin Filtz has found a crucial double up at just the right time, his stack now boasting 178,000 and looking good for day two.

The action began with Filtz himself, his raise of 3,600 being repopped by Dario Minieri who made it 11,000 to play.

Steve Gross then sprung into action a couple of seats down, pushing all in for 58,000.

Although Minieri passed, Filtz made the call, his {A-Spades}

comfortably ahead of Gross' {A-Hearts}

.

A

board later and Gross was done, a casher here today, but a day one exit nonetheless.

Tags: Dario Minieri Justin Filtz Steve Gross

06-17-2008 00:25 UTC-7

Beer Makes a Difference

[user46392]

Since Scotty Nguyen bought a round for his table, the sound of raucous laughter, raised voices and all-round hilarity and thorough enjoyment of this tournament from his table is deafening -- it's actually managing to drown out the continuous chatter-and-chip-riffle buzz of the Amazon Room. No mean feat.

Tags: Scotty Nguyen