Sugar Bear Finds Some Honey
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"What happened?" he asked Barbieri.
"What happened?" Barbieri parroted back. "I just knocked out three players, that's what happened! I'm up to 30,000."
That could be a tournament-leading stack.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
770
Level
27
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
"What happened?" he asked Barbieri.
"What happened?" Barbieri parroted back. "I just knocked out three players, that's what happened! I'm up to 30,000."
That could be a tournament-leading stack.
Phil Ivey's Stack Eliminated
Phil Ivey's stack has been eliminated from the tournament. On Ivey's stack's final hand, it made fives full of aces. That's not the object in razz, of course. The object is to make a low hand. Ivey's stack's opponent made a king-queen, also not ordinarily a winning razz hand -- but good enough in this instance.
Phil Ivey's stack is still alive in Event 30, $2,500 PLO, where it has about 36,000 chips. Perhaps Phil Ivey's stack will win an eighth bracelet in that event. It certainly won't be this one.
One Pair Enough for the Mighty Thor
Opponent: x-x /
FOLDLuske: x-x /
/ xHanson: x-x /
/ xWho says Seven-Card Stud is a race to two pair? After one player completed the
, Marcel Luske and Thor Hansen both called. Hansen checked fourth street to the third player, who bet and was raised by Luske. Hansen called through the raise as did the third player.On fifth street, action checked to Luske. He bet and was called only by Hansen. It was the same action on sixth street, with both players checking the river. Luske turned up
in the hole for a pair of nines; Hansen managed to produce a king as one of his hole cards for a pair of kings. A sizable pot was pushed to Hansen, allowing him to climb to 19,500 in the counts.
Selected Chip Counts
Andy Black - 17,000
Annie Duke - 24,000
Justin Bonomo - 4,500
Archie Karas - 22,000
Marcel Luske - 7,000
Thor Hansen - 16,000
Howard Lederer - 4,500
Al Barbieri - 27,000
Lana Maier - 28,000
Mickey Appleman - 2,000
Chad Brown - 3,000
Barry Greenstein - 26,000
Jason Mercier - 3,500
Vanessa Rousso - 15,000
Ylon Schwartz - 9,000
Al Boston - 9,500
Daniel Negreanu - 5,700
Justin Smith - 5,600
Cyndy Violette - 3,700
Erick Lindgren - 9,100
Bryan Micon - 19,800
Mike Sexton - 6,400
Perry Friedman - 13,100
Matt Savage - 23,000
Mike Wattel - 8,200
Level: 8
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
The Home Stretch
Every Chip Matters...
It's a small (very small) double-up for Paul Darden in the hold'em round. He was all in preflop with pocket sixes and called by a player with Big Slick. The flop was gave Darden a sweat,
, but there was no further harm as the rest of the board ran out . The small double-up pushed Darden's count up to 3,200.
Hanging On... or Not
on a board of 
, the nut low and the second-nut high. Lindgren managed to scoop the very next pot to climb to 1,200 but was eliminated shortly thereafter. At least he left the Brasilia Room smiling and laughing.Meanwhile, Paul Darden was also in the Omaha Hi/Lo round in a three-way pot against Al Barbieri and one other player. "Sugar Bear" Barbieri led the betting all the way to the river, where he folded to Darden's all-in bet on a board of
. Darden is up to 7,900.
Haley Hintze Eliminated
Negreanu Crippled
Negreanu: x-x /
FOLDOpponent: x-x /
Opponent2: x-x /
It's not looking like Daniel Negreanu's day. He was crippled in a recent hand after leading the betting all the way to sixth street in a three-way pot, where he check-folded to preserve his last few hundred chips. Negreanu managed to double up the next hand by making aces up, then caught another double in Stud Hi/Lo. But even despite those pots, he's only on about 3,200 chips right now.