Newsblog: E4 D3 Mixed Hold'em $5000

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lpblog Vietnam. Jun 05 2008 07:42. Posts 17

The final table of this event, featuring a mix of Limit and No-Limit Hold’em, started with an interesting line-up. With Pat Pezzin and Andrew “Good2cu” Robl as underdogs (both have about $140.000 life time tournament winnings) they were up against a tough bunch of pokerpro’s. David Rheem started the day as chipleader, with the following chipcounts:

Isaac Haxton was the first to go out, on a classic coinflip in the second hand of the evening. AKo vs QQ, no help and he’s out in 9th. Also in No-Limit, Pet Pezzin gets all-in, with Andrew Robl going all-in as well. Pezin’s AQ isn’t good enough against the AK of Andrew Robl, and he’s out in 8th. Meanwhile we’re switching back to limit hold’em, the crowd recognizes it and some people evacuate the room, limit isn’t that interesting to them as no-limit. I think this comment in the crowd says it all: “I'm going to bring a Chia pet next time we have a limit event so I can watch it grow.”

In a more silent environment, David Williams wins the prize for first Limit-bustout of the evening, though he wouldn’t have thought so when he saw his A3s all-in against David Rheem’s KTo. The flop immediately brought a T and David Williams knows he won’t win his 2nd bracelet tonight, finishing 7th.

Also in limit, Howard Lederer gets into trouble after raising from the cutoff. Justin Bonomo (not to be confused with bonobo, the fucking-monkey ) 3bets, Lederer calls. Bonomo says he’ll bet in the dark before the flop, with Lederer responding he’d raise in the dark as well, going all-in. With a -flop, Lederer was up ahead with his pocket 4's, against Bonomo’s AQo, but the turn and river brought a and , thus counterfeiting Lederer’s pair and busting him out in 6th place.

With that hand, Bonomo took the chiplead, with 1.3 million chips, just ahead of Erick Lindgren. Both Andrew Robl, Roland de Wolfe and David Rheem were the shortstacks, with stacks ranging from 385k to 220k. David Rheem had the shortest of the shortstacks when he got into trouble during no-limit. He raises UTG to 50k, Roland de Wolfe calls from the big blind. The flop: brought no action. The turn, a made De Wolfe check-call Rheem and when the river brought a De Wolfe does the same, check-calling Rheem’s all-in. Roland shows his QJo for a straight, Rheem mucks and is out in 5th.

In the meanwhile Erick Lindgren achieves the chiplead. About one hour after he busted David Rheem, Roland De Wolfe gets all-in during no-limit. He first bets out preflop, Bonomo calls from the SB. With a flop of Bonomo checks and De Wolfe raises $85k. Bonomo moves all-in and De Wolfe calls, with Bonomo having him covered. De Wolfe shows , just having to dodge Bonomo’s outs with . With a on the turn being ok, the meant De Wolfe wont be howling no more, at least not on this table, being out in 4th place.

Now with Bonomo, Lindgren and Robl left, it seems like Lindgren is getting bullied for a while. Of course that’s not the way he likes it, so Lindgren switches gears and within no-time, he’s back on the chiplead. Andrew Robl, being cheered on by his friends, became the shortstack, and not much after that he was all-in, after a raise of Bonomo. His A2o were well ahead of Bonomo’s Q5o, but a Q on the flop meant Robl was out of there, “Good2CU go” was what Erick and Justin must have thought I guess.

Heads-up started with a small chiplead for Bonomo, 1,983 million to 1,340 million. With blinds being relatively low (both had over 100 big blinds) both players had plenty of time to play their opponent, instead of the blinds. Both players had already had their successes, but neither of them has a WSOP-bracelet yet. It seems like E-dog definitely has the upper hand in the heads-up, attacking Bonomo’s stack aggressively, soon achieving the chiplead. The final hand of the evening was when Lindgren opens to $80k (with 10k/20k blinds and 1k ante). Bonomo calls and both see a flop: . Both check and the turn brings a . ZeeJustin bets out $80.000, Lindgren flat-calls. The river is a and Bonomo bets again. Lindgren raises his opponent all-in and Bonomo calls, showing 2 pair: . Lindgren is more than happy to show his wheel straight: ! That means Erick Lindgren won Event #4 and his first bracelet and $374,505 that came with it.

World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8)
The World Championship Mixed Event started last night. It looks about the same, but it's actually far from it. Instead of featuring a mix of limit and no-limit hold'em, it features all sorts of poker, like razz, stud, omaha, 2-7 tripple draw, etc. It started last night, with a very nice line-up, featuring Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Dewey Tomko and James "Mig.com" Mackey. There are a lot (and I mean A LOT! like 95% of the players attending are quite well known) of well known players there, the line-up is one of the sickest we'll see this year. At the end of day 1 last years Player of the Year, Tom Schneider, is our chipleader with 140.000 chips. Mig is still in with 34.000. Full chipcounts can be found here. Tomorrow you'll find a report about it at this blog, when we see if Mig can make it to the final table and who will accompany him.

By: Pindarots