2009 World Series of Poker
Event 39 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
So Do We All, Darus, So Do We All
One player at Darus Suharto's table stopped us
to let us know that Suharto was engaging in play as creative as playing from under the gun. It turned out that Suharto hit two pair on the flop and dragged a nice pot.
"Hey, are you complaining about me?" Suharto asked as his opponent re-told the tale. "I need to get lucky sometimes!"
Suharto has around 9,000 chips right now, just about average.
Chippies!
Tom Franklin - 10,500
Jen Mason - 8,000
Shawn "sprstoner" Glines - 27,000
Alex Jacob - 15,000
Dewey Tomko - 4,000
Gavin Smith - 3,500
"Make a note that they're check-raising me on this table," Smith told me as I watched him get check-raised out of a pot on a flop of . "I don't like it one bit."
Smith added that he had already figured out the title of his next book -- "How Can He Call?!"
An Unfortunate Turn
Showdown
Lee:
Opponent:
Lee had flopped the baby set to temporarily crack aces. To his disgust though, the spiked the turn to leave him dead to the case deuce. The on the river was not a decue, and Lee has been stripped of a big chunk of chips. He's back to 8,200.
Cards Flying
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Break Time!
Players are on their second break of the day, 20 minutes this time. It will give you time to check out some of the great videos that our video team has been producing, including Part 2 of the "40 Years of WSOP" series, embedded below.
Jacob Cracks Five Figures
The river fell . The big blind fired out a sizable bet, 1,600 chips. Jacob tanked for a minute and then called with .
"Good call," said Jacob's opponent. "King-high." He flashed and then mucked.
De Wolfe Turns the Ten
It came down . The small blind led out with a bet of 1,000, enough to fold the early-position player. De Wolfe came along though, seeing the turn card bring the . Both men checked, and the river was the . The small blind passed again, and de Wolfe put out a bet of 2,000. The small blind called, turning over . It was no good though; de Wolfe tabled the winning . His pair of tens takes down the pot, chipping him up to 11,200.
A Random Sampling of Chip Counts
Young Phan - 4,900
T.J. Cloutier - OUT
Adam "Snoopy" Goulding - 11,000
Kathy Liebert - 12,000
Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri - 45,000 (leading the charge, we reckon)