Championship Day 5 | 2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5

02-28-2007 22:41 UTC-8

Who's Got the Biggest One

As the player's arrange their ever growing stacks of orange 5K chips (they did not color up on the dinner break) the various configuratoins of monster stacks are being used by players to intimidate. [Hey, is there a Poker Shrink in the house?]

At or approaching 3 million chips: JC Tran, Eric Hershler and Jacobo Fernandez.

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02-28-2007 22:47 UTC-8

Estimates and Approximations

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As always chip counts during the action should be considered best estimates and close approximations. The dead money is 110K each hand (40/20/5) and the players are firing at that money.

02-28-2007 22:53 UTC-8

Jay Chang Out in 10th

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JC Tran limps from middle position and Jay Chang pushes all-in for 210K more. Tran calls.

Chang turns over {K-Hearts}

Tran shows {4-Diamonds}

The flop is {4-Spades}

giving Tran the set and Chang few outs.
The remaining {3-Hearts}

don't deliver for Chang.

Jay Chang 10th place $91,125

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02-28-2007 22:56 UTC-8

A Chip and a Ben

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With pocket Queens Ben Johnson is all-in and David Bach calls with the nut flush drawn. David get there on the river and when the smoke has cleared and the chips are counted, Ben Johnson as exactly ONE CHIP. He will be all in on the ante next hand and no chip and a chair here. He is gone in 9th place. See the next post for the semi-heart warming details.

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02-28-2007 23:06 UTC-8

Shared Pain: Ben Johnson Finishes 9th

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Perhaps every player at the table had felt Ben Johnson's pain. Johnson was left with only the ante on this hand and easy pickings for a group attack. But Vinnie Procopio (UTG) started the ball rolling by stepping away from the table saying, 'I'm out. Good luck.' Out of turn and without looking at his cards, Chau Giang said, 'I will fold for you.' And the cards flew into the muck, player by player. The blinds, Bill Edler (SB) called an JC Tran checked.

Both blinds checked down the board of {Q-Hearts}

.

Edler's {A-Spades}

was good enough to take it.

Ben Johnson 9th place $121,500

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Level: 25

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 10,000

02-28-2007 23:15 UTC-8

Does Chip Stack Matter?

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Today we will follow the 18 remaining players and see just how much size matters. Here is the list of players in order by chip stack at the start of today's play. We will update this list as we play down today to the six player final table and pay attention to the bustout out order.

1 JC TRAN 3,461,000
2 Jacobo FERNANDEZ 1,334,000
3 Jason STRASSER 1,196,000 [12th place]
4 Bill EDLER 1,160,000
5 Tad JURGENS 1,059,000 [11th place]
6 Ben JOHNSON 1,055,000 [9th place]
7 David BACH 985,000
8 Chau GIANG 813,000
9 Paul WASICKA 806,000
10 Eric HERSHLER 745,000
11 Chris BELL 636,000 [13th place]
12 Joseph CORDI 512,000 [14th place]
13 Vincent Propocio [8th place]
14 Richard MUNRO 371,000 [18th place]
15 Jay CHANG 333,000 [10th place]
16 Kristy GAZES 307,000 [16th place]
17 Juan ALVARADO 282,000 [15th place]
18 Shan JING 266,000 [17th place]

Tags: bill edler chau giang chris bell jason strasser jc tran kristy gazes paul wasicka

02-28-2007 23:27 UTC-8