2008 WSOP Main Event Day 1b in the books, notable bustouts

Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Ted Forrest, Tom McEvoy, Tuan Le, Andy Black, Kenny Tran, Dewey Tomko, Jamie Gold, Humberto Brenes and Kenna James to name a few have all found their way to the rail in Day 1B of the 2008 WSOP Main Event.

Here are the final chip counts for Day 1B. 1158 players started the day. Almost a 150 players less than Day 1A.

Going thru all the hands reported on Pokernews.com, i saw mostly overpairs running into bigger overpairs and sets running into bigger sets. there was the occasional flushfish missing and some bluffs were picked off but, nothing like yesterday's Quad Aces going down to a Royal Flush.

Patrik Antonius rode one of the biggest stacks throughout the day but, took a big hit on one of the last hands with J-6sOOted vs A-Jo. JackAce was goot!

Lucko, LJ and Loretta8 play for millions tomorrow in the WSOP Main Event while i play for thousands at Ocean's 11 20k guarantee ($225 buy-in).

Who needs all that media attn anyway :P

You can follow their progress at PokerNews.com

JJ is worth 200bbs? / Quad Aces should be good right?

Official chip counts from Day 1a (as reported by PokerNews)

Final overnight tallies from the WSOP show that 636 players (of 1297) survived
Day 1a action in the Main Event. Complete chip counts for all but a handful of non-reporting
players have now been posted.

The overnight Day 1a leader is Mark Garner
at 194,900 in chips.

The official top ten players are:
Mark Garner
194,900
Brandon Adams 176,450
Kellen Hunter 155,200
Stefan Mattsson
154,275
Patrick Fortin 145,275
Jeff Frerichs 138,025
Soren Peterson
135,475
Adam Hudson 127,750
Wayne Brown 124,575
Todd Rebello 123,925

There were plenty of coolers and bad beats to go around but, these two hands stood out.

How do you get all your chips in with J-J 20 minutes into the Main Event? Apparently, this guy couldn't fold J-J for his entire stack.

Posted by loganmark

That Was Quick
Less than 20 minutes into the first level and we've already had an elimination. The name of the busted player is currently unknown, despite tournament director Jack Effel's best attempts to track him or her down.He or she didn't leave without a story however. The player in question got their money in good holding A-A against the J-J of Rocco Lazazzaro on a flop of 6x-6x-2x. It was looking good through the turn, but Lazazzaro spiked a J on the river for the win. The busted player quickly vacated the tournament area and while Lazazzaro stacked his chips, which now total approximately 42,000. We originally reported that the chips went in before the flop on this hand, but that information was from a player at the table and has since been deemed inaccurate. The table consensus is that the all-in play occurred post-flop.

Surprisingly (or not), Lazazzaro didn't make it through day 1a.

...and this poor guy got frostbitten. sick

Posted by shorton

Moto-Rolled Quad Aces are Good, Right? ... RIGHT?
Motoyuki "Moto" Mabuchi raises to 850 in middle position and the button calls.The flop is Ax-Qd-9x and both check. The turn is Td and Moto bets 1,600. The button calls. The river is Ad and Moto bets 2,500. The button raises to 8,500 and Moto reraises all in.The button calls. Moto shows A-A for quad aces, but the button has Kd-Jd (the SuperDonkey!) for the Royal Flush. Moto is eliminated in stunning fashion.

Honestly, i think today would've been the best day to start the main event since it's a holiday. Many well known pros played yesterday and A lot of veterans would probably choose to spend time with friends and family instead. Day 1b would've been my absolute 1st choice.

the fish fry continues today

So it begins....

the most anticipated day in tournament poker is finally here, the 2008 WSOP Main Event kicks off today.

"I raise.....One Million"

those words were heard over and over as last year's winner steamrolled the Final Table to take down the bracelet and over 8 million bucks.



An unknown So Cal amateur who won a $225 live satellite at Pechanga Casino, Jerry Yang came into the 2007 WSOP Main Event final table sitting 8th in chips and finished the day with a mountain of chips and bundles of cash.

Jerry turned that $225 satellite win into one of the most coveted prizes in tournament poker.

Best of luck to everyone who's at the big dance this year. I'll be following all the action with envy.

"I'm so glad you're back to playing cash games"

I guess my tournament frustrations were visibly apparent last month.

It's a new month and i'm back to the nightly cash game grind. I don't play much during the day cuz the tables are usually full of nit/regs. I hold out until the donkeys with disposable incomes get home and put the kids to bed.

no offense meant toward my readers who may have spawned future poker bloggers. i'm just sayin'.

There's a real good chance i'll be playing in a live tournament this weekend at my old donkey punching stomping ground. They're running three $225 buy-in tournaments with $20k guaranteed.

I haven't played there in at least a year. When i was playing cash games at Caesar's a couple weeks ago, one of the dealers asked if i was from the SD area. Apparently, he recognized me from playing at Ocean's 11. He was a weekend warrior there at the time.

Small world

ps- i'm setting up another site dedicated to the best NFL team to never win a super bowl. they're kinda like the JC Tran, Erik Lindgren or David Benyamine of the NFL, overdue.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming..

I played a bunch of satellite's into PokerStars $650 WSOP Main Event qualifier over the last few days and got close several times but, couldn't close the deal. I thought i could save some $$. in hindsight, i should've just bought in direct.

Tina just told me to go ahead and buy in. But, I've spent the last three days getting beat down in satellites so, i'm giving up on it. I'd probably just end up getting coolered or taking it in the nuts in the $650 anyway.

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility"
-Yogi Berra

I'm taking the rest of the day off to spend with Tina.

Back to grinding away next week. Best of luck to all playing in this year's WSOP Main Event.

I'm halfway there

the glass is half full and all that.

I've had a few offers but no where close to where i need to be if I'm gonna get there this year. There was a small glimmer of hope one of the online sites would pick up 50% of me.

that didn't come thru

At this point, it looks like the last ditch effort qualifiers running on PokerStars this weekend are my only real hope of getting there. Which really isn't a bad thing cuz i'd rather save myself (me and the little missus) $5k outta pocket.

So if i'm lucky enuf to get there, i'll be sporting PokerStars swag at the tables.

Like these guys did last yr.



visualizing myself with PokerStars swag.
one time PStars, one time!