WSOP MAIN EVENT

The night before it all begins again.....




Who's playing tomorrow?

from our house starting on Day 1A are:

me! (amazon blue table 20 seat 3,come say hi)
mig
TOM
twistedecho
blair
blake
p00ruser
bigred000000000000000000000000000

thanks for including me and steve Ket. fail

oh yeah am sleepy i figure ur gonna be allin pf blind first hand anyway. good job getting on same starting table sitting next to each other! plz swap seats with him.....

lets get some prop bets going. Ket i bet you that MIG will last longer than you for 300$.
If anyone think they can last longer than mig, i am willing to book a bet with them.

quote to book ket.

I will try to come and watch a little today.
I am starting on Saturday.

LURPED playing today

I'm playing on sunday day 1d

got a stack in the venetian 2.5k on day 2 so hopefully ill win that

day 1d, avoiding all the onliners

saturday 1c

On July 03 2008 12:59 RaiNKhAN wrote: day 1d, avoiding all the onliners

who the fuck is logged in on my account?

im playing saturday 1C also



peachy is playing today also

looolz we all suck

Mig, steve (pooruser) myself and blake all busted.

fail

LOL DOCUMENTS !

damn that sucks

Damn, that sucks. What is the structure like?

any updates on how peachy, ket, bigred, ect are doing?

On July 03 2008 19:11 TimDawg wrote: any updates on how peachy, ket, bigred, ect are doing?

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporti...f-poker/main-event/chip-counts/day1a/

Just came back from the Rio, I talked to Ket a little and he said he was the last one in from their house (not sure who exactly is that, but mig is one of them). Ket was doing quite ok, he had I think around 60k when I left the Rio.

can u list full names plz ket so i can track yall

peachy busted, Blair Hinkle is in good shape though (while in good shape in the ME includes not having busted yet)

On July 03 2008 23:26 NerO wrote: can u list full names plz ket so i can track yall

that would be nice

Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78?

Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!!

full names for us are.....

Ketul Nathwani (Ket obv.)

Patrick Stemper (me)

Blair Hinkle (blair...)

Dan Lu (Raidan)

Jonathon McGowan (Cosmo) sorry if i butchered that spelling jonny.

these are all the lper's i know of that played day 1a and survived. If I forgot about you im sorry and please let me kno.
ALSO IF KET BUSTOS I SHIP THE LAST LONGER!! aaaaaaand Raidan is still in with a healthy stack of 60 something k.

On July 04 2008 02:01 BigRed0000 wrote: Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78? Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!!

omfg sick starstruck!?


gl on day 2!!!

and gl nolan and joe plz make me proud and my wallet fat(ter)

So I played today too, and survived after some sick rollercoaster ride.

Got 17k going into Day 2. I'm pretty sure I've never had to fold so many big pairs preflop. (Tossed KK for a single raise vs a very obv AA, tossed JJ when I was down to 5100, tossed QQ vs a cold 4 bet from a nit, etc etc)

1d for me table 44 seat 1


BTW im so fucking sick. vegas air is killing me, have had bad fever for like 2 days.. better get better before ME

On July 04 2008 03:20 JonnyCosMo wrote: Tossed KK for a single raise vs a very obv AA

blasphemy

On July 03 2008 01:42 lostaccount wrote: lets get some prop bets going. Ket i bet you that MIG will last longer than you for 300$. If anyone think they can last longer than mig, i am willing to book a bet with them. quote to book ket.

wish i saw this earlier id have dominated it

What day is nolan playing? I wanna be able to follow my 10% action

GL everyone! Someone take it down with some awesome chairhatting skillz

EVERYONE FROM LP HOUSE GOT OWNED ME AND MYTH HAVENT PLAYEDD YET HE PLAYS TOMORROW(TODAY) I PLAY ON SUNDDAY DADY 1 D SHIPDPPDGDD

LIKE EVERYONEN BUSTED CEPT THOSE COUPLE PPL IT SSICKEST LIFE I HOPE I WIN

Dan Harrington 0 Busted

Dany no!

On July 04 2008 05:37 SakiSaki wrote: What day is nolan playing? I wanna be able to follow my 10% action GL everyone! Someone take it down with some awesome chairhatting skillz

Nolan starts on day D - Sunday.

On July 04 2008 02:01 BigRed0000 wrote: Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78? Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!!

you know you could of asked them to change you table, np, right?

On July 04 2008 13:05 careface_ wrote: Show nested quote + On July 04 2008 02:01 BigRed0000 wrote: Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78? Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!! you know you could of asked them to change you table, np, right?

yeah but i'm not a huge pussy -_-

Joe McGowan 115575 31575

Cosmo seems to be doing great

hes not joe mcgowan hes john mcgowan.

On July 04 2008 13:14 BigRed0000 wrote: Show nested quote + On July 04 2008 13:05 careface_ wrote:   On July 04 2008 02:01 BigRed0000 wrote: Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78? Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!! you know you could of asked them to change you table, np, right? yeah but i'm not a huge pussy -_-

yea but ur dumb for not doing it

sry but theres a diff between having a dick and stupidity

On July 04 2008 23:06 FrinkX wrote: Show nested quote + On July 04 2008 13:14 BigRed0000 wrote:   On July 04 2008 13:05 careface_ wrote:   On July 04 2008 02:01 BigRed0000 wrote: Me blair and Ket all survived day 1A. I have 72k, blair has 56, Ket has 78? Considering how soft main event is supposed to be I think I got kinda screwed with table draws. Steve was to my direct left for first two levels (pooruser). And we had a few online guys who weren't anything special but were far above average for this field. Also 1987 MAIN EVENT CHAMPION BARRY JOHNS(t?)ON!! you know you could of asked them to change you table, np, right? yeah but i'm not a huge pussy -_- yea but ur dumb for not doing it sry but theres a diff between having a dick and stupidity

Let me know what your stack is going into Day 2B =D

The thing that people can ask for table change is a joke, right?

well ur not supposed to know whos on your table but obviously pooruser and bigred knew cuz they know each other

so if u just unregister and re-register, or move days u can switch tables for sure

dunno if they allow table changes or not

Congrats Patrick, Ket, Blair, Dan, and Cosmo. gl in day 2. Also gl to Myth today and Frink & Nolan on Sunday and anyone else I missed.

My boy busted but may get a 6k+ pokerstars rebate for being on the second feature table to the right of Hoyt and Negreanu. I heckled DN for a bit after my friend took a pot off him - just to loosen the atmosphere up tbh. But DN was a total class act and after busting set under set signed autographs for railbirds for at least 15 minutes. He's most certainly great for the popularity of the game and tv ratings. My friend said Hoyt shot the shit with him all day and was one of the chillest guys. He also said he didn't think Hoyt had to show down once during the first 3 levels.

gl again to all.

On July 05 2008 15:02 Cray0ns wrote: Congrats Patrick, Ket, Blair, Dan, and Cosmo. gl in day 2. Also gl to Myth today and Frink & Nolan on Sunday and anyone else I missed. My boy busted but may get a 6k+ pokerstars rebate for being on the second feature table to the right of Hoyt and Negreanu. I heckled DN for a bit after my friend took a pot off him - just to loosen the atmosphere up tbh. But DN was a total class act and after busting set under set signed autographs for railbirds for at least 15 minutes. He's most certainly great for the popularity of the game and tv ratings. My friend said Hoyt shot the shit with him all day and was one of the chillest guys. He also said he didn't think Hoyt had to show down once during the first 3 levels. gl again to all.

Why does he get money for being on that table, profit sharing?

see blog for my Main Event update: http://thewh00sel.liquidpoker.net/

Elky took a big hit earlier, about half his chips, but he doubled back up to 30k+

I assume Rekrul plays tomorrow since I haven't seen his name on any chip list yet.

Is Khan playing?

i dayed two with 40k

what in the holy hell

whats the link for live stream?

From pokernews.com

"When the other player yelled out "There is a God!" after winning, someone from a nearby table cried "Excessive celebrating!" Seems most players are aware of the so-called "Hevad Khan" rule."

I lolled

new image ?

rofl....

He should change his name to Farmer Khan

it's just the hair

cut the hair hevad

in on dinner break.

got 17k at 150/300/25, lost a 20k pot with KJ vs Q6 on KJT flop to a whack ass noob.

below avg, but my table is pretty weak and i'm optimsitic.

GL nolan

finished day with 51k. i had 55k after the first level, had some ridiculous swings

content w/ my stack tho

That's still a good sized stack going into the next round, gL Frink.

finished w/~30k

table was sick tough, nobody busted for the first 12.75 hours. unreal.

Busto... will post my bust out hand since its interesting a little later. Im going to nap now

On July 08 2008 16:15 JonnyCosMo wrote: Busto... will post my bust out hand since its interesting a little later. Im going to nap now

Now you can go back to the beach

bah.... last level of day 2 i get kings and open utg to 3600 at 600/1200/200a. i get 3bet to 10k by some old european guy. i ship it in for my remaining meagre 50k. old guy silently eyeballs my chips for a good 30s trying to count how much more it is. then he gives up and gets the dealer to do it, after the dealer gives him the count he starts slowly counting up the exact number of chips to make the call. i tell him, "if youre calling why dont you just say call and u can count the chips later if i win". he ignores me and continues counting up enough chips to exactly call my pf shove. after he finally does he then goes back into the tank for a bit before saying "I HAVE TO CALL" and putting the chips in to call. I turn over kings and he waits yet another 10s for good measure before TURNING OVER ACES. theres a crowd of ppl from other tables and live update reporters gathered around the table at this point and ppl are gasping in shock and disapproval. the dealer quickly puts out a bunch of low cards on the board and as soon as the river bricks the silent slowroller suddenly goes nuts and starts yelling in celebration at the top of his lungs while i just shake my head and stand up to leave. the old guy reaches across the table to shake my hand right after. obviously i refuse. instead i shake the hand of every other player at the table before i leave. a fitting end to a trainwreck negative six fig series. ket is sad


insane GL evan, myth, rekrul and nolan

tough luck. what a retard

That sounds like something that would piss me off, sorry to hear that Ket.
Losing to aces when you have kings is one thing, but doing the whole counting thing then thinking about the call is dumb.
Shaking everyones hand except for his was a nice touch I think.

gL to Elky, Rekrul, and Giyom.

lol slowroll

damn that sounds horrible ket

what is up with the slowroll this year in the wsop?

that is so sick ket.

off to play now, run good one time plzzzzzzzzz.

how the hell actually act like that and survive long enough to look old?

On July 09 2008 11:49 DustySwedeDude wrote: how the hell actually act like that and survive long enough to look old?

I was wondering that myself.

Khan doubled up

Flop: 6s 4h Th

Khan: Qc Qs
Villain: Ac Tc

Turn: Kh
River: Qd

Busted .

Doubled up wtihout showdown within the first 10 hands of the day (once on a pretty big bluff, second time with the nuts when some rich moron put in 80% of his stack then folded to my river shove)

Then the big hand!

The guy who I doubled up off of (more or less) raise to 1.2k at 250/500 from utg. A really loose guy from London (who had a big stack but appeared to be rather good) flatted after some though in MP. I had KK on the cutoff and made it 6k total to go (I have a 60k stack at this point, UTG has ~27k). They both flat. Flop comes 246r, checks to me. I bet 10k and the UTG puts his remaining 12k in. The guy from London folds JJ face up (is that even legal) and I obviously call as I'm committed. 222 good. Pretty shitty way to get knocked down, but I still had 20k.

Unfortunately I had a bad run of cards and got re-stolen from twice and was eventually down to ~10k. The London guy I mentioned before made a cutoff raise and I "re-stole" with A4 suited to run into his TT and go unimproved. I think my resteal is pretty standard but I'm open to speculation (he raiesed 4xbb as his standard, so it seemed like a good spot assuming I have fold equity). I also hadn't shown down anything but KK, the nuts, or AK to this table so I thought that may help get some extra fold equity.

To my backers: Sorry I didn't bring home the big pay day. I really felt I played pretty close to my A-game throughout the entire tournament, and only made one real "mistake" early in Day 1 that I can think of. I know that sounds pretty arrogant but I think I'm fairly realistic about my play and feel confident and content in how I played. Thanks for having faith in me etc., I'll make sure to take it down next year.

Ket, Myth and others, you guys want to get a LP Bustout Failure home-game table running today or tomorrow at Caesars or something? Let me know.

Best of luck to everyone still in.

god Ket i probably would've flipped out pretty hard on that old guy, that's so horrible. kudos to you for having class though and not blowing up on him

sorry to hear you busted too nolan

On July 09 2008 05:10 Ket wrote: bah.... last level of day 2 i get kings and open utg to 3600 at 600/1200/200a. i get 3bet to 10k by some old european guy. i ship it in for my remaining meagre 50k. old guy silently eyeballs my chips for a good 30s trying to count how much more it is. then he gives up and gets the dealer to do it, after the dealer gives him the count he starts slowly counting up the exact number of chips to make the call. i tell him, "if youre calling why dont you just say call and u can count the chips later if i win". he ignores me and continues counting up enough chips to exactly call my pf shove. after he finally does he then goes back into the tank for a bit before saying "I HAVE TO CALL" and putting the chips in to call. I turn over kings and he waits yet another 10s for good measure before TURNING OVER ACES. theres a crowd of ppl from other tables and live update reporters gathered around the table at this point and ppl are gasping in shock and disapproval. the dealer quickly puts out a bunch of low cards on the board and as soon as the river bricks the silent slowroller suddenly goes nuts and starts yelling in celebration at the top of his lungs while i just shake my head and stand up to leave. the old guy reaches across the table to shake my hand right after. obviously i refuse. instead i shake the hand of every other player at the table before i leave. a fitting end to a trainwreck negative six fig series. ket is sad

!(**&£"%))!£&%£!)^£)!£!%!£@£"%& fkin retard


but i sooo love how u handled this. i hope they'll show it on tv

On July 09 2008 05:10 Ket wrote: bah.... last level of day 2 i get kings and open utg to 3600 at 600/1200/200a. i get 3bet to 10k by some old european guy. i ship it in for my remaining meagre 50k. old guy silently eyeballs my chips for a good 30s trying to count how much more it is. then he gives up and gets the dealer to do it, after the dealer gives him the count he starts slowly counting up the exact number of chips to make the call. i tell him, "if youre calling why dont you just say call and u can count the chips later if i win". he ignores me and continues counting up enough chips to exactly call my pf shove. after he finally does he then goes back into the tank for a bit before saying "I HAVE TO CALL" and putting the chips in to call. I turn over kings and he waits yet another 10s for good measure before TURNING OVER ACES. theres a crowd of ppl from other tables and live update reporters gathered around the table at this point and ppl are gasping in shock and disapproval. the dealer quickly puts out a bunch of low cards on the board and as soon as the river bricks the silent slowroller suddenly goes nuts and starts yelling in celebration at the top of his lungs while i just shake my head and stand up to leave. the old guy reaches across the table to shake my hand right after. obviously i refuse. instead i shake the hand of every other player at the table before i leave. a fitting end to a trainwreck negative six fig series. ket is sad insane GL evan, myth, rekrul and nolan

LP railbirds should track his progress and cheer extremly loudly when he busts and mock him. .

On July 09 2008 19:26 Bejamin1 wrote: LP railbirds should track his progress and cheer extremly loudly when he busts and mock him. .

great idea. would love to see this happen

on the first two levels i went from 39k to 150k then suddenly every bluff got called every call i made was wrong and i lost all three flips

Fuck My Life!!

LOL at dinner break elky had 5.6k going into 500/1k blinds and was on eternal life tilt now he has 170k LOL

raszi and elky doing good

bleh i finished 100k but i had 200k and lost 280k pot

so many slowrollers, i would go insane

Did Phil Ivey play in this?

wut's raszi's name? i see elky/khan on the pokernews i dont see evan but i hear hes still in who else is still making a run?

lex veldhuis IIRC

day 4 109500 chips bleh bad day. run goodd tomorrow

it sucks that not all the names are on the chipcouts.
so i think khan elky and evan are alive, correcT?

NMcNasty is still on the chipcount with 99k.

Justin St John
99,000

Evan McNiff
109,500


Bertrand Grospellier
181,500
0

Hevad Khan
338,500


Can see all but Raszi=P

i know it's waaaaay too early, but if Khan made a FT back to back years couldn't that be considered the greatest accomplishment in poker? just saw he was up well over 500k and doing well. goooooooo RAINKHAN

dont jinx it for GOD sakes jkpickett!!

Lets give some support to my roommate Mike Blocksidge (aka goatzilla on stars). He's at 520k~

The Same in Any Language

With the action folded to Mike Blocksidge in the small blind, he moved all in with {Q-Hearts} {4-Spades} on a steal and Comuelo Navamo snap-called in the big blind with {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds}.

The flop was {6-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {3-Spades}, but the {Q-Diamonds} fell on the turn, making Blocksidge two pair. The river was the {J-Hearts} and Navamo began muttering a trail of expletives in Spanish.

"Sorry," was all Blocksidge could offer as he dragged the pot.

He's also a nice guy :D

elky just eliminated with KK vs. AQ. still a few LPers out there to bring home the bracelet.

Pokernews chip count says FrinkX has busted

Mike Blocksidge Eliminated-- Kings, then Aces Cracked

Robert Ford and Mike Blocksidge got into a preflop raising war, Ford ending up all in with {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} vs. Blocksidge's {K-Hearts} {K-Clubs}. The flop was {9-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {3-Clubs}, the turn was the {3-Diamonds}, but the {A-Clubs} spiked on the river to snap off Blocksidge's kings. He was crippled to only 25,000 while Ford raked in the 980,000 pot.

On a subsequent hand, Blocksidge open-shoved for the rest of his chips and Brandon Becker called. Blocksidge held {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} to Becker's {J-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds}. It just wasn't Blocksidge's day, as the flop came down {K-Clubs} {J-Spades} {8-Hearts}, Becker hitting two pair. The turn was the {4-Diamonds}, the river was the {10-Spades} and Blocksidge was eliminated. Becker is now up to 390,000.

OMFG

On July 11 2008 17:00 JonnyCosMo wrote: Mike Blocksidge Eliminated-- Kings, then Aces Cracked Robert Ford and Mike Blocksidge got into a preflop raising war, Ford ending up all in with {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} vs. Blocksidge's {K-Hearts} {K-Clubs}. The flop was {9-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {3-Clubs}, the turn was the {3-Diamonds}, but the {A-Clubs} spiked on the river to snap off Blocksidge's kings. He was crippled to only 25,000 while Ford raked in the 980,000 pot. On a subsequent hand, Blocksidge open-shoved for the rest of his chips and Brandon Becker called. Blocksidge held {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} to Becker's {J-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds}. It just wasn't Blocksidge's day, as the flop came down {K-Clubs} {J-Spades} {8-Hearts}, Becker hitting two pair. The turn was the {4-Diamonds}, the river was the {10-Spades} and Blocksidge was eliminated. Becker is now up to 390,000. OMFG

lol donkaments

khan is out. it's all up to justin st john. glglglglgl

fml

mcnasty finished the day with 545k

St John just eliminated..... Looks to be 147th. Cool $41,816. Good work, man.

from: WSOP

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:05:22

Justin St. John Eliminated

There was already 130,000 in the pot prior to the flop and Justin St. John moved all in for his last 247,000 from the small blind. Chris Crilly called and it turned out that his still held the lead against Crilly's . The on the turn gave St. John a few more outs as a king on the river would've counterfeited Crilly's pair, but the fell on the river that brought an ended to Pittsburgher Justin St. John's Main Event run.

Jeff Masden, Hellmuth, Ramdin, Mark Vos, Tiffany Michelle, Sheikhan among some notables still in.

=[

damn, ul mcnasty, was rooting for u

and WOW the payouts are WAY more top-heavy than last year with WAY more money for final table. last year it was a smaller field and i came like 269th for 44k cash, mcnasty gets 147th in a bigger field and gets slightly less.

David "raptor" Benefield is still in! and pretty healthy top 10 in chips with 92 players left, gogogogo!!

On July 12 2008 20:57 Balzamon wrote: David "raptor" Benefield is still in! and pretty healthy top 10 in chips with 92 players left, gogogogo!!

whos that?

Tiffany Michelle fighting~

gogogo Mike Matusow !!

Congratulations to former starcraft player (orky)Soul aka Ivan Demidov who just made the final table of ME 2nd in chips!

On July 15 2008 03:45 PaleMan wrote: Congratulations to former starcraft player (orky)Soul aka Ivan Demidov who just made the final table of ME 2nd in chips!

zoomg

rofl i didn't know about it =]
thats just sick

starcraft and magic players seem to be prevalent in today's poker world. never would have thought it.