 With a very sick line-up at this event, we were happy to see our own James “Mig.com” Mackey in the field. Along with 88 other of the 192 players starting this event, he started the day with a slightly above average stack. Tom Schneider was the chipleader starting this day. Almost everybody worthy of a name in live tournament poker seemed to be there, like Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Gus Hansen, Erick Seidel, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, David Sklansky and many others. This $10.000 buy-in Mixed event consisted of a total of 8 variants of the game, amongst those also 2-7 Tripple Draw, Razz, Stud 8 and a few others, including No Limit Hold’em. The game changes after every 8 hands.
Greg Raymer, Erik Seidel and Alex Kravchenkowere out of there pretty quickly, as was Barry Greenstein. While Doyle Brunson was more concerned with watching the Lakers play the Celtics in the NBA (which request was denied, because the tournament clock being shown at the big screen where Doyle preferred the Lakers, so he had to run back and forth to a television at the other end of the room), his son Todd was busted out as well. Meanwhile James “Mig” Mackey was doing pretty well, getting in preflop with Mark Vos. Mig showed aces to Vos’s kings and doubles up.
We were getting closer and closer to the bubble, with Marcel Luske, Mike Sexton and Vanessa Rousso just falling short, with Jeff Madsen and “Downtown” Chad Brown becoming very short in chips. Fortunately for them, they made it, because Minh Ly went out in Stud-8. His a strong starting hand:    he didn’t manage to get more than a pair of aces at the end (no low either). Eli Elezra’s trip 5’s did the trick and he won the pot, leaving Minh Ly being the last elimination before the money.
Not much after that, Doyle Brunson went out as 21st, unfortunately for him, the NBA match was already finished when he busted out, losing his chips to William McMahan during pot-limit Omaha. Mig is doing ok, he was amongst the shorter-stacks, but won a few pots getting an average stack, before doubling through Tom Dwan. When durrrr raises to 15k in NLH, Mig reraises to 45k. Dwan moves allin and Mig calls, being well ahead with his   agains the   of Dwan. With no help for durrrr from the dealer, Mig doubles up to 550k, leaving Dwan just 175k. We’re getting closer to the final table of 8, when Johnny Chan busts out 13th. Chipleader at that moment is Matt Glantz, just ahead of James Mackey, with Tom Schneider as shortstack, not much after that he went out. Also Ali Eslami goes out at 11th, and Gus Hansen get’s allin during limit hold’em with   against Sam Farha’s  . No help and we’re almost done for today, just one more needs to go.
The last one going out today was David Oppenheim, when he got all-in in stud-8 on 3rd street he showed 2 pair, kings and aces, against Jeff Madsen's aces and fives, and David Oppenheim was out! Eli Elezra noticed that as well and had to fold his hand in Razz, because he'd win a $100.000 bet if he'd make the final table. Sammy Farha knew that, saying, "I know you can't call Eli, but you made it."
That means we'll see Mig tomorrow at the final table, with a decent stack, 2nd at the moment.
 The chipcount for the final table tomorrow is:
Seat 1: James "mig.com" Mackey 742,000
Seat 2: Matt Glantz 1,115,000
Seat 3: Sam Farha 374,000
Seat 4: Michael DeMichele 434,000
Seat 5: Tom "durrrr" Dwan 642,000
Seat 6: Eli Elezra 76,000
Seat 7: Anthony Rivera 274,000
Seat 8: Jeff Madsen 149,000
Tonight/tomorrow we'll see if James "Mig.com" Mackey can win his second bracelet and ship the World Championship Mixed Event and the $483,688 first prize!
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), Mig is actually in 2nd chip position atm =)
Sweden. Jun 06 2008 07:40. Posts 7243
