Event 17 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-10-2008 19:56 UTC-7

Playing the Bully

[user4144]

John Strzemp raises to 175,00 preflop, Jason Young deep reaches for a million in chips from the big blinds. Strzemp folds. "I had K-Q," he claims.

06-10-2008 19:58 UTC-7

On the final hand before the agreed dinner break, Mike Schwartz folds the button (after asking how long was left and decided to "wait till after dinner"), Jason Young makes up the small blind and John Strzemp checks.

{7-Hearts}

Check, check.

Turn = {2-Hearts}

Young bets 50,000, Strzemp folds.

We're now on the 60 minute dinner break.

06-10-2008 20:00 UTC-7

Tea-Time Chip Counts

[user4144]

Jason Young -- 4,800,000
Mike Schwartz -- 4,100,000
John Strzemp III -- 1,100,000

Level: 6

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 5,000

06-10-2008 20:54 UTC-7

We're Back

[user46392]

Our three remaining players have just returned from dinner, and their chip counts as yet remain at their pre-dinner break levels.

06-10-2008 20:59 UTC-7

Double Slowplay

[user4144]

No groundbreaking pots as of yet, just blind stealing and the odd walk. I did catch an interesting hand between Mike Schwartz and Jason Young though, both players slow-playing big hands. Somehow {A-Spades}

versus

on an

board was checked all the way down to the river where Schwartz's bet of 75,000 was smooth-called by Young's top pair.

"Boy, I could have gone bust on that hand, but just lost 75,000," commented Young after the hand.

06-10-2008 21:04 UTC-7

Young Fails to Get Paid for a Set

[user46392]

Jason Young raises to 200,000 from the button and John Strzemp calls in the small blind. Strzemp checks the {6-Hearts}

flop, and folds to Young's 200,000 bet. Young makes a face as he shows pocket sixes for a set.

06-10-2008 21:10 UTC-7

Fatigue Showing

[user46392]

Strzemp raises to 180,000 on the button, and small blind Schwartz calls. Schwartz checks the {J-Diamonds}

flop, and Strzemp tries to bet 350,000. He very slowly counts out 200,000. Jason Young protests this, and the dealer counts the chips out, mistaking the ten-high stacks of 5,000 chips for things equaling 100,000 in value. Young protests again, and a conglomerate of Strzemp, Schwartz and the dealer keep counting and recounting until everyone is satisfied. "I can't do math any more, I'm so tired," sighs Strzemp.

After all this though, Schwartz folds, showing the {J-Clubs}

.

06-10-2008 21:14 UTC-7

On the Comeback Trail

[user4144]

John Strzemp has been fighting back of late, winning three hands in quick succession.

Firstly, he raised Jason Young's button raise of 175,000 all in. Young folded.

The next hand he button raised himself to take the blinds, Schwartz and Young both folding the small and big respectively.

Then, a couple of hands later, he bet 100,000 on a {7-Diamonds}