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

Event 17 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Day 1 Completed

06-10-2008 08:26 UTC-7

Shootout's Final-table Lineup Complete

[user33020]

Kyle Bowker locked up the tenth and final seat in today's shootout championship

With Kyle Bowker's early-morning elimination of Travis Roseberry, the final ten players in Event #17, #1,500 No-Limit Showdown, have been determined. Here are the ten:

Seat 1: Casey Coleman
Seat 2: Matthew Giannetti
Seat 3: Thomas West
Seat 4: Rory Monahan
Seat 5: Kyle Bowker
Seat 6: John Strzemp III
Seat 7: Mike Schwartz
Seat 8: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 9: Jason Young
Seat 10: Alexander Triner

Each of the ten will begin with 300,000 in starting shifts, and for those who struggled through a second-round marathon to reach the final, it'll be a short night -- the final round gets underway at 2pm PDT. Check in here at PokerNews for the latest updates as this event is part of the first triple-bracelet day of 2008.

Each will begin play on

Tags: Kyle Bowker

06-10-2008 07:04 UTC-7

It's Over!!!...

[user4144]

... until later today that is.

Yes, from a 12pm start yesterday afternoon to 6:50am this morning (almost nineteen hours later), we have finally whittled down our initial field of 1,000 to a final table of ten.

After a see-saw battle that would give the 100 Year War a run for its money, Kyle Bowker finally defeated a fatigued and downtrodden Travis Roseberry to take that last spot in tomorrow's final.

At the time, Roseberry was struggling. Although he'd just doubled up with kings (he cheekily limped preflop) to Bowker's J-2 on a jack high board, he was still short and in desperate need of a double through. And when both players hit a minimum of top pair on a jack high board, the inevitable clash occurred and the chips flew in.

Roseberry = {A-Hearts}

Bowker =

Board =

The players, press and tournament staff held their breath as the river was dealt...

River = {8-Spades}

And that was all she wrote.

Bowker was sportsmanlike in victory and resisted a cheer or jump of joy that so many would have executed, instead shaking the hand of his defeated opponent and offering his sincerest consolations.

Whilst Roseberry looked understandably dejected, Bowker was equally bedraggled, barely able to raise a smile as his exhausted frame trundled out of the Amazon Room.

As for us, we'll be back here at 2pm for the final. See you there... with coffee in hand.

Tags: Kyle Bowker Travis Roseberry

06-10-2008 06:47 UTC-7

Michael Schwartz Advances to Final Table

[user46392]

And we are down to our last two heads up warriors.

Michael Schwartz limps on the button, and John McKinney pushes all in. Call.

McKinney: "I've got two live cards..." {K-Spades}

Schwartz: looks like McKinney is in trouble, as Schwartz has {A-Diamonds}

Board:

Some brief arguing over whether Schwartz has him covered (he has), some handshaking and expressing of, "Good game," and Schwartz advances, the unfortunate McKinney still gets 100th-place money for his 19-hour ordeal, and we are down to Kyle Bowker and Travis Roseberry.

06-10-2008 06:42 UTC-7

Heads Up Chip Counts

[user4144]

Bowker has his man on the ropes:

Kyle Bowker -- 250,000
Travis Roseberry -- 50,000

Tags: John McKinney Kyle Bowker

06-10-2008 06:38 UTC-7

Garrett Beckman Eliminated

[user4144]

And after all that, it just needed both players to find pocket pairs, Garrett Beckman getting the worst of it with sevens versus Rory Monahan's queens. A queen on the turn and Beckman was drawing dead. Monahan, meanwhile, celebrated with his girlfriend and headed straight home to get some sleep.

Tags: Garrett Beckman Rory Monahan

Level: 17

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

06-10-2008 06:17 UTC-7

We're Still Here

[user46392]

Still heads up on three tables, and players are about to go on their umpteenth break, just five minutes this time instead of 20. They don't really need any more than five minutes, as there's no opportunity to eat or anything, since the poker kitchen closed at 3am and doesn't open again until 10am. I think everyone is hoping that we're not still here come 10am.

06-10-2008 05:47 UTC-7

Young Advances, with Whooping and Dealer Embraces

[user46392]

After at one point sinking down to just 50,000 heads up, Jason Young has triumphed over David Orvis after four hours of heads up back and forth.

The final hand went like so. Young limped in and Orvis checked. The flop came down {K-Hearts}

and Orvis bet 6,000. Young called. Orivs bet 6,000 again on the {K-Spades}

turn, to which Young responded by raising him all in. Orvis called for 75,000 more, and they were on their proverbial backs.

Orvis: {J-?}

Young:

River:

-- meaning that Young's nine played, Orvis had been eliminated, and Young advances to the final table.

"WOOOOH!" howled Young when the river hit the felt. He shook hands with the disappointed but gentlemanly Orvis, and turned to Dudley the dealer. "Get up, get up, you know what we do. Hug it out, baby!" He embraced his favorite dealer of the day and tried to tip him $100 before being told that it would go into the dealer's tip pool instead of straight to Dudley, who looked understandably crestfallen to be denied it.

"That's it?" Young turned to the TD, "I get to go home now?"

Three tables left heads up.

06-10-2008 05:28 UTC-7

Wagner Eliminated

[user4144]

Another plucky performance goes unrewarded, this time in the form of poor John Wagner who brings to an end the last remaining three-handed table.

All in preflop for 31,500 with {6-Hearts}