Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-29-2009 16:58 UTC-12

Recent Eliminations

[user75032]

Kathy Liebert is out. As a short stack, she lost a battle of the blinds when her {K-Spades}

could not out-run her opponent's {5-Clubs}

on a

board.

Praz Bansi is also out. He was on the other side of a king-queen battle, holding {J-Diamonds}

against Milan Andrejkovics' {K-Clubs}

. Neither player connected on a board of {4-Hearts}

.

06-29-2009 16:56 UTC-12

We have a feeling that Shane Schleger may have decided he was in a good spot to gamble. After James Taylor opened to 8,000 from early position, Schleger reraised to 25,000. That second raise folded all other players back to Taylor, who moved all in for about 104,000.

The raise of 79,000 represented about two-thirds of Schleger's remaining stack. He put it up for grabs and opened {A-Diamonds}

. Taylor showed {K-Hearts}

, a hand which held up on a jack-high board. Schleger slipped down to 49,000 while Taylor is robusto with 210,000.

Tags: James Taylor Shane Schleger

06-29-2009 16:47 UTC-12

Slowdown

[user75032]

We're not going to lie. The action since we came back from dinner hasn't been what soccer enthusiasts would call "end to end". Even though the tournament clock says the average stack has thirty big blinds (which should mean lots of stacks well below that average), the chips seems evenly spread. Most players seem comfortably deep, but not so deep that they're willing to splash around and see lots of flops. Right now it's difficult to find interesting hands to write about.

06-29-2009 16:37 UTC-12

First Round of Payouts

donpeters

Here's the list of places 73-81. All of these places paid $5,892.

73. Karlo Lopez
74. Tracy Scala
75. Lee Childs
76. Paul Testud
77. Dick Carson
78. Frank Guida
79. James Daly
80. J.J. Liu
81. John Conroy

06-29-2009 16:30 UTC-12

A Hand for Mike Caro!

[user75032]

Well, it took a while, but we finally got some semblance of a hand on Mike Caro. Action folded around to Peter Feldman in the small blind, who limped into the pot in front of Caro's big blind.

"I can't ever let anyone do that," said Caro. He raised to 10,000. Feldman called and checked the {4-Diamonds}

flop. Caro took down the pot with a single bet. At Feldman's request, Caro flashed his cards: {7-Clubs}

.

Caro is up to 90,000.

Tags: Mike Caro

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

06-29-2009 16:23 UTC-12

Holt Gets Caught

donpeters

Karga Holt fired a raise to 7,600. Two players made the call, including Michael Katz. The flop came down {A-Hearts}

. The first player checked, then Holt fired 11,000. Katz scurried off while the other player called.

The turn brought the {8-Clubs}

and the first player checked again to Holt. Holt fired a bet, but this time he was met with a check-raise all in by his opponent. Holt made the call with {A-Spades}

. His opponent held {A-Clubs}

. The river blanked off, allowing Holt's opponent to double up. Holt is now down to 150,000 chips.

Tags: Karga Holt Michael Katz

06-29-2009 16:18 UTC-12

Bornstein Eliminated

donpeters

Karga Holt raised and Michael Katz reraised before David Bornstein called and was all in. Holt also made the call. The flop came down {A-Clubs}

. and Holt checked. Katz checked behind.

The turn brought the {8-Diamonds}

with both Holt and Katz checking again. The river was the {7-Hearts}

and Holt check-folded to a bet of 16,000 from Katz. After Holt folded, Katz looked up and said "I have an ace."

Bornstein looked dejected and flung over his cracked pocket queens before exiting to the rail.

Tags: David Bornstein Karga Holt Michael Katz

06-29-2009 16:15 UTC-12

Lodden Thinks About Chips

[user75032]

No, it's not another episode of everyone's favorite game, Lodden Thinks. But it is a hand that involves Lodden. Isaac Baron opened for 7,500 in front of Lodden, who reraised all in for 45,000 from the cutoff. The big blind called all in for 27,000, folding Baron. It was a race, {A-Diamonds}

for Lodden against the big blind's pocket sevens. An ace on the flop held up for Lodden to increase his count to 85,000.

Tags: Johnny Lodden

06-29-2009 16:09 UTC-12

Fun Times at Orange 67

[user75032]

We've been sweating Mike Caro on and off throughout the day, trying to get a hand on the Mad Genius. His chip count has remained mostly the same throughout the day.

While sweating Caro we did overhear an interesting conversation between Kathy Liebert and Peter "Nordberg" Feldman. Feldman asked Liebert if she remembered when he called the clock on her at the Borgata.

"I knew I didn't like you," said Liebert, "but I couldn't remember why."

"Nice of you to remind her," added Joe McGowan.

A few hands later, Mike Caro and Praz Bansi got in a staring contest. Caro remarked that he would get a lot more out of the staring contest than Bansi would.

"Don't you know who he is?" Liebert asked Caro.

Caro did not.