Event 4 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2009 World Series of Poker

05-31-2009 13:31 UTC-12

Counts In The Amazon Room

Tom Snyder -- 6,500
Eric Mizrachi -- 4,500
Mark Dickstein -- 6,500
Bryan Micon -- 7,500
Alex Jacob -- 5,000
Francois Safieddine -- 5,500
Jimmy Fricke -- 20,500
Rob Perelman -- 8,000
Andrew Scott -- 11,500
Mike Wattel -- 12,000
Jesse Rios -- 7,500
Rep Porter -- 15,000
Tony Ma -- 3,500

05-31-2009 13:31 UTC-12

Can't Choose When to Use Your Luck

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You only hit a set roughly one in seven times. It's pretty bad to find yourself up against an over pair to yours. It's a really frustrating when you lose up some of your luck hitting your set only for your opponent to hit a set too. You may as well not hit you set and save the luck for another time.

Nick Binger got it all in preflop with pocket threes and was isolated by his neighbor with pocket kings. A sweet looking three appeared on the flop but so did a nasty looking king. One Binger down.

05-31-2009 13:17 UTC-12

Variance...

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Jesse Rios - Photograph taken before set over set action presumably.

Jesse Rios may have been the early chip leader but now he's back to Earth with a bump. First losing a big pot on a {4-?}

X board with {3-?}

to

and then he lost {Q-?}

to

.

Clearly he had overdrawn on his flip tokens early on with the consistent Aces-cracking and this was poker gods' way of restoring the balance.

Rios has been left with 7,500.

05-31-2009 13:13 UTC-12

Miranda Room Chip Counts

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Bill Edler 2,600
Lee Markholt 1,600
Liv Boeree 5,600
Jon Friedberg 4,500
Nikolay Evdakov 4,500

05-31-2009 13:08 UTC-12

Would You Lay This Down?

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This hand went down just before the break...

A player UTG makes it 700, gets a caller from Nick Binger on the button before the small blind three bets to 2,000. UTG calls but Binger folds.

The flop came {Q-Hearts}

before SB moved all-in for just over 2,500. UTG dwells for a good two minutes before folding pocket kings face-up!

Level: 6

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

05-31-2009 12:50 UTC-12

Small Part Of England

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Despite the vastness of the field, the table draws throw a few curveballs. One such is that Andrew 'Tufat' Teng and Sunny Chattha, both of whom have won GUKPTs in the past year have managed to end up sitting next to each other. Both have chips and Sean Sheikhan is also present on the table.

Sheikhan -- 6,000
Chattha -- 7,200
Teng -- 8,800

05-31-2009 12:45 UTC-12

John's Phanished!

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Looking around for John Phan is fairly tough as he seems to have disappeared from the tournament area.

Meanwhile Daniel Negreanu has just Twittered that he is out. {A-?}

against

.

05-31-2009 12:41 UTC-12

Get it in Good

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All you can do in poker is get it in good and hope variance is leaning your way. Eric Brewstein came along to tell me he did just that but was eliminated anyway.

It was a four way raised pot before the flop came down {J-Diamonds}