Running 2006 World Series Of Poker Thread

End of Day 6 Chipcounts (courtesy of PokerWire):
1 Jamie Gold 13M
2 Erik Friberg 7.735M
3 David Einhorn 6.905M
4 Rhett Butler 6.4M
5 Dan Nassif 5.43M
6 Richard Lee 5.275M
6 Michael Binger 5.275M
8 William Thorsson 3.765M
9 Jeffrey Lisandro 3.75M
10 Kevin Aaronson 3.67M
11 Doug Kim 3.595M
12 John Magill 3.275M
13 Allen Cunningham 2.65M
14 Leif Force 2.265M
15 Kevin O'Donnell 2.13M
16 Prahlad Friedman 1.85M
17 Eric Lynch 1.785M
18 Lee Kort 1.7M
19 Rob Roseman 1.685M
20 Fred Goldberg 1.611M
21 Dustin Holmes 1.21M
22 Sirious Jamshidi 1.19M
23 Luke Chung 1.1M
24 Paul Wasicka 700K
25 Siddharth Jain 675K
26 Mark Garner 635K
27 Richard Wyrick 570K

 

About the A-3 calls lately:

Notice that online play carries over to the table. I've never seen so many weak Aces get played and get paid off.

 

That one of those A-3s was Annabelle Duke is unspeakable.

I also think TV does it. A-3 is a solid hand HEADS UP. Any ace is playable with four or less at a table, gets more playable as they dwindle and is just plain good heads up. Not at a standard nine-seat.

 

I haven't been following it as closely as some of you, but do we know the situation? Was Duke shortstacked?

 

No. She was trying to push somebody out and got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. A bad read. A bad time to bluff.

 

Think he curses his parents for that?

 

Frankly, I don't give a damn.

 

Exactly.

Heads-up, an ace is a 54 and change% favorite against any random (i.e. non-paired) hand. Any king is a 52 and change % favorite.

 

Oh yes ... we're back ... and the boy genius is making moves ...trip 5s again

Allen Cunningham Doubles Up
Kevin Aaronson raises to $170,000. Erik Friberg, Richard Lee and Allen Cunningham make the call. The flop comes K52. Lee and Cunningham check. Aaronson bets $400,000 and Friberg calls. Cunningham check raises all-in for $2,255,000 more. Aaronson debates a call and eventually folds. After three minutes, Friberg makes the call. Friberg shows 99. Cunningham shows a flopped set with 55. The turn and river come QQ, and Cunningham doubles up to $6,000,000. After the hand, Friberg is down to $4,200,000.

 

I love that the antes are up to $10,000. Everytime they ante they're basically playing with somebody's entry fee.

 

I think it's the new $25,000 chip that tournament directors have called "mint colored with chocolate chips" ... so I'm figuring a light green with brown. They might be soon getting into the $100,000 chips, though.

By the way, I think chip leader Jamie Gold looks like Stephen Colbert. Only me?