Just a couple of days ago Kristy Arnett spoke to Jason Mercier, Matt Glantz and Allen Bari about their new t-shirts. The shirts said 'Just Bad Luck!', and if you haven't watched it, here's the story behind it.
Today in the Eight-Game Mix we have a serious #justbadluck situation over at Table 364, where Matt Glantz and Allen Bari are seated right next to each other.
To make things worse we've also spotted Nikolai Yakovenko, who finished fourth in the $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo tournament for $79,831 earlier this series, and Ryan Tepen who's coming off a sixth place finish in the $1,500 2-7 No Limit Single Draw event.
Both John Monnette and Andy Frankenberger are in contention for 2012 World Series of Poker Player of the Year honors, a title earned in past years by a number of today's participants.
We've already spotted four former WSOP POY in the field including Daniel Negreanu, Jeff Madsen, Tom Schneider, and Frank Kassela. We also know all the rest have been playing events in recent weeks, so we would be surprised if all eight end up participating, though reigning POY Ben Lamb has been quite selective in the tournaments he's played this year.
As we were strolling around the tournament floor we saw an all in and a call on the turn in No Limit Hold'em. Andy Frankenberger was involved, and the board read when the money went in.
Andy Frankenberger
Opponent
Frankenberger was looking for the board to pair in order to stay alive, but the river was the .
"Unbelievable!" Frankenberger cried as he realized his tournament lasted just under an hour. The $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em winner and World Series of Poker Player of the Year contender will probably be back at it tomorrow when another $1,500 No Limit Hold'em tournament starts.
It seems the players are quite pleased with the order of games here in the eight-game mix, as evidenced by the following tweets:
JeffMadsenobv Jeff Madsen@WSOPTD the way you guys arranged the mixed games for this 8-game tournament is great.. So much more fun.. This should be the standardJune 19 2012
chipjett Chip Jett@WSOPTD liking the new order of the games in the 8game mix.June 19 2012
We just noticed Andrew Robl sitting over in the Orange section, and he had the floor called over.
"About 15 minutes ago I gave a waiter $100 and asked him for change, but I haven't seen him since," Robl said to the floor who went out to do some research right away.
Players at the table were joking that the waiter had quit his job after getting such a big tip, but moments later the floor staff came back.
The waiter was on his way, but had a hard time finding change for a $100 bill. Right as we sat down at our desk the waiter came up to us, and asked if we could maybe break his $100 bill. We had to decline, and his search went on.
Times are tough in the poker world, but not for Andrew Robl who's only carrying $100 bills.
John Monnette winning his first WSOP bracelet in this event in 2011.
If you don’t know who John Monette is by now, you obviously haven’t been paying close enough attention to the 2012 World Series of Poker. Through 36 events the man has racked up 524.25 Player of the Year points, thanks to five cashes and three top-three finishes:
Here's a look at Monnette’s 2012 WSOP thus far:
Event
Place
Prize
Event #32 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E.
2nd
$279,206
Event #27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
94th
$2,676
Event #15 $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
3rd
$109,444
Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud
1st
$190,826
Event #4 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo
12th
$10,051
Not too shabby for less than three week’s worth of work. As you can see, Monnette captured his second gold bracelet in Event #10, the other coming last year in this very event when he defeated 488 other players to capture the $278,144 first-place prize.
The non-hold’em cash-game specialist from Palmdale, California has 25 WSOP cashes for $1,224,734, but what’s really impressive is only eight of them come in no-limit hold’em related events. What does that mean? Simple, Monnette is one of the best-mixed game players in the world.
Given his skill level, combined with how well he’s run this summer, we wouldn’t be surprised if Monnette puts up a long and hardy fight in defending his title.
when the money went in.
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