World Series of Poker Main Event.

[MtrCtyPimp]

Did anyone hear some guy got busted out with quad aces against a royal flush? That has to be brutal....anyone have any updates post them in here if you like.

PEACE

[longnex]

July 4, 2008 WSOP Day 1 In day 1a of the World Series of Poker main event, 636 players survived from a starting group of 1,297. The chip leader is Mark Garner, with 194,900. Several big names were eliminated, including Josh Arieh, Dan Harrington, Freddy Deeb, David Benyamine, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Eli Elezra, Lyle Berman, "Miami" John Cernuto, Gavin Smith, and Tuan Lam. Notable near the top of the leader board is Mark Vos (113,200), who contributed the cash-games chapter to our great poker-tournament book Kill Everyone. Day 1b goes today, with our Kill Phil author, Blair Rodman, in the field.


July 5, 2008 WSOP Day 1B Yesterday's starting group of 1,158 was cut to 615 by day's end. The chip leader was Ben Sarnoff with 177,500. Eliminated players include Daniel Negreanu, Ted Forrest, Jamie Gold, Kenny Tran, Dewey Tomko, Scott Fischman, Tuan Lee, Humberto Brenes, Tom McEvoy, Alan Boston, and Blair Rodman.

[MtrCtyPimp]

Lots of the top pros are already eliminated.....I really think the pros go into this thinking they dont have much of a shot so they just try and put some chips together early and if they dont they just bust out and move on.....its seems they take the amateur approach for this tourney while the amateurs protect their chips early on in an effort to make any kind of a name for themselves deep in this tourney.

PEACE

[meaiken]

Did anyone hear some guy got busted out with quad aces against a royal flush? That has to be brutal....anyone have any updates post them in here if you like.

PEACE

I seen in a game someone kid Quad Kings on the river to get beat by Royal. That was brutal.

[longnex]

July 6, 2008 WSOP Day 1C The field was bigger on the third day of the first round of the World Series of Poker's main event, with 1,928 starting and "over a thousand" moving on. With an even bigger field expected today, it looks like the total field will top 6,000 players. The day 1c chip leader was Henning Granstad, whose 242,950 gives him the overall tournament lead. Big-name players who were eliminated include Huck Seed, Tony G, Mike Sexton, TJ Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Sammy Farha, Jim Bechtel, and JC Tran.

[DDP713]

Did anyone hear some guy got busted out with quad aces against a royal flush? That has to be brutal....anyone have any updates post them in here if you like.

PEACE

I wouldnt mind losing with quad aces against a royal flush if I was playing cash game at the commerce. thats a nice 6 figure jackpot if it happens

[longnex]

July 7, 2008 WSOP Day 1D Nearly 3,000 players crowded the Rio yesterday for the last of four first-round sessions in the World Series of Poker main event. Dylan Linde emerged the chip leader with 146,000. Lots of big names resulted in lots of high-profile eliminations, including Andy Bloch, John Phan, Phil "the Unabomber" Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Layne Flack, Cindy Violette, Noel Furlong, Annie Duke, Mike Mizrachi, and Todd Brunson, plus pre-tournamement favorites Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and Phil Ivey. There is no play today; round two begins tomorrow.

[insidethe8thpol]

Professional Poker Player

They should be called Bluffers & Hopers

Either you bluff others to fold or you hope the flipped over cards match yours

Next thing they will tell us are these 'PROS" are the best fine tuned athletes in sports today

[longnex]

Buy In: $10,000
Top Prize: $9,119,517
Entrants: 6844
Pos. Paid: 666
Players Remain: 3663


Top Notables left:

Victor Ramdin 124,600

David Oppenheim 114,400

Carlos Mortensen 109,825

Gus Hansen 102,900

Aaron Kanter 99,700

Nikolay Evdakov 93,850

Antonio Esfandiari 93,775

Thomas Keller 80,175

Phil Hellmuth 78,900

Johnny Chan 77,500

[Chado1]

Professional Poker Player

They should be called Bluffers & Hopers

Either you bluff others to fold or you hope the flipped over cards match yours

Next thing they will tell us are these 'PROS" are the best fine tuned athletes in sports today

No kidding...poker is the luckiest shit I ever seen..

These so called "pros" lose all their money late at night in online poker rooms when nobody is watching I wouldnt doubt it...

[ogarza]

Id like to see a pro win it again...either hansen or Esfandiari...i like watching those two dudes play...another one I like cause he cracks me up is that one asian that always says BABY...Scotty i think it is...

[xstac2169]

Scotty Nguyen is the guy your thinking of.

They are all good players when it comes down to it. Luck sometimes wins in the end over skill though. I'd take having skill and losing than having luck and winning because luck will run out way before skill does(Doyal Brunson as an example). The guys that win these things are bums(Chris Moneymaker, Jamie Gold, Robert Varkoni) nowadays and could not win at a regular game to save their lives thats why they only play the big tournies to show their faces.

[ogarza]

Scotty Nguyen is the guy your thinking of.

They are all good players when it comes down to it. Luck sometimes wins in the end over skill though. I'd take having skill and losing than having luck and winning because luck will run out way before skill does(Doyal Brunson as an example). The guys that win these things are bums(Chris Moneymaker, Jamie Gold, Robert Varkoni) nowadays and could not win at a regular game to save their lives thats why they only play the big tournies to show their faces.

I agree with the skill and luck comment...i play regularly at home, but dont seem to win tournaments anymore...usually do well at cash against the same fools (my friends and family)...not 100 percent of the time but most of it, i go in with the top hand or in great position but get ousted by a lucky river card...luck has tons to do with Tournament play

[xstac2169]

Tournament is all about luck... more tournament people play draws because it is not real money in front of them. When you throw $50, $100 at someone they are not playing a draw all the way to the end for that much money. But for 100 or 500 chips they definately will and thats how good hands get cracked more so in tournaments. Just from the limited view I have on ESPN anyways.

[ogarza]

It sure is the truth...they dont look at the odds of thier draw hitting being so little in a tournament...but in the cash game they understand that they are betting real MONEY waiting on a card that has a 10 percent or sometimes less chance of coming out...thinking its only chips, they make the damn call and usually against me it seems to hit....

Just two weeks ago I make this big raise with pocket 8s...i get one caller...flop comes 8, J, 2...i go all in with a set...dude calls me he has A, 10...really no chance in other words...what do you know Q on turn and K on river...hits his straight and I gotta hit the sidelines, he knocked me out...BASTARD brother in law...he has to be the worst...poor dude folded a straight flush...thinking someone had a higher flush out there...not realizing his straight flush was unbeatable with the cards out there...he actually didnt even know he had a straight flush...we been giving him shit bout that ever since...