Running World Series of Poker Thread

Well put.

 

Oh, don't get me wrong, I took chips from him. (Hell, there were four other fish at the table as well. Four of us kept stacking the whole night. The only reason I left was because I was dead tired.)

I guess the fact he was in his late 70s was getting to me. In fact, I know that's the reason.

 

Down to two tables now, and we'll have the final 9 by the end of the night.

Four players have between $10 and $11 million in chips. Kenny Tran has $7.28 million, Lee Watkinson has $4.36 and Scotty Nguyen has $4.15.

 

Scotty Nguyen just doubled up. He's up around $5.5 I think.

 

Lee Watkinson went on a rush and was chip leader last I looked.

UPDATE: He's second now, but with 14.2 million. Scotty's up to over 5 million, just trended up 2.5 or so.

 

Watkinson moved in for his tournament life with A-K against a pocket pair and caught a king on the river to double up and take the chip lead.

 

So I'm watching the ESPN showing of the circuit event that first ran on Tuesday night but I didn't see until watching the TiVo of it tonight. At the final table is a guy I was friends with in grade school until his family moved a suburb away back in about 1972 or 73. Then the coverage doesn't even show the hand that eliminates him. They go to commercial with five players and come back with three.

 

Looks like Scotty Nguyen is going to make the final table with enough chips to be a serious force.
Shortly after the last break of the night, Scotty spiked a king on the flop holding KQ in the big blind after he raised and got reraised by Ray Henson in the small blind. Opp checked and Scotty bet out, opp check-raised all in and Scotty called. His kings held up against Henson's 9-9. Scotty nearly doubles up on the hand and eliminates Henson in 12th place. Scotty now has 15.5 million in chips, well within striking distance of the chip leaders.

"If you reraise, it's gonna be all over, bay-bay!"

 

oops. Scotty was eliminated in 11th.

 

Took a big loss on two hands almost in a row. I believe that's it for players in the WSOP fantasy pool.

 

Too bad Scotty couldn't make it to the final table. Would have been good entertainment.

Here are the seat assignments and chip counts:

Seat 1 - Jon Kalmar - 20.32 million
Seat 2 - Lee Childs - 13.24 million
Seat 3 - Philip Hilm - 22.07 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 8.45 million
Seat 5 - Raymond Rahme - 16.32 million
Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 21.315 million
Seat 7 - Alex Kravchenko - 6.57 million
Seat 8 - Lee Watkinson - 9.925 million
Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 9.205 million

The relatively even chip distribution should make this a good final table. Everybody's got enough chips to play with since I believe they will start at $100,000-$200,000 blinds with a $30,000 ante. That's $570,000 into the pot every time they go around the table. Even Kravchenko, who will start with the short stack, won't necessarily have to commit to one hand early.

Watkinson would have to be the betting favorite based on his past performances, but much like Alan Cunningham last year, he probably won't win.

 

Shortly before he busted out, Scotty lost a hand where he reraised on a Q 8 x flop. Both players checked when a K hit the turn, and when an 8 hit the river, Scotty checked and the guy went all-in. Scotty thought for a long time and folded.

I wonder if he had a hand like AQ there, because he ended up losing most of his chips later with AQ on a similar board. Flop came down Q 5 x and he got smooth-called on the flop. The turn was a K and he went all-in. Unfortunately, he got called by a set of 5s. I was wondering if he was thinking about the other hand and had decided he wanted to put the pressure on the other guy instead of get pushed out when a couple of scary cards hit.