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Archive for the ‘$1,000 No Limit Hold'em’ Category




WSOP Event #4: Negreanu is all-a-Twitter

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

wsop2009_thn.gifIf there's one person you can count on to talk the hind legs off a donkey at the poker table (and that's just an expression, folks, not a dig at the players in this event), it's Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. He's rarely quiet, except when he's having an at-seat massage like he is right now.

Thanks to new technology, however, we can all keep up with Kid Poker's latest musings on his Twitter page, where he's updating his latest ups and downs in the colossal $1,000 no limit event. In all, 6,012 have entered this bloodfest, that's the highest ever WSOP field outside of the main event, and money is paying all the way down to 621st, who will get $1,894. The winner, who will have to play out of his or her skin to get there, will get a deserving $771,106.

Negreanu has some work to do, therefore. And it doesn't help when hands like your pocket queens get cracked by K-10. But little blips do not phase him, he's still on 3,000 - back where he started.

negreanu1k1b.jpgDaniel Negreanu

STOP PRESS: The blogger's curse strikes yet again. Just as we hit publish, Negreanu is out - his A-K no good against. K-K. He's now revealed he'll be playing the PLO and stud events tomorrow.


Posted in $1,000 No Limit Hold'em, 2009, 2009worldseries, Pokerstars, World Series of Poker, danielnegreanu | Comments Off


WSOP Event #4: Honey, I shrunk the bankroll

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

wsop2009_thn.gifWhile we wait for the beginning of the final table of the $40K, featuring PokerStars players Greg Raymer, Lex Veldhuis and Isaac Haxton, day 1B of the mammoth-like $1,000 no limit event is in full-blooded swing. With such a huge field - 6,008 over two starting days and rising - bust outs are seemingly happening every few seconds. And that generally means countless loved ones dotted around the world are being told in excrutiating detail about bad beats.

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Walking down the corridor in the Rio, you can't help but hear players detailing their exit in painful detail, mostly saying "but I was ahead" to explain away a deduction of $1,000 from the family budget. Here's one guy I heard talking to his wife as they stood crestfallen outside the Amazon Room:

"But I had two kings, so I had to raise."

"Why?"

"To get rid of anyone with an ace."

"Oh, so what happened?"

"Someone called with an ace and hit it. So I'm out."

"So you did not play it very well then?"

"You just.... you just.... oh, forget it."

This $1,000 tournament, especially introduced as a low-cost "stimulous" event by the WSOP (though to be fair $1,000 is still quite a lot of money to most people) has attracted record crowds, To have the Rio jumping like this so early in the Series is a great credit to organisers. It's no Mickey Mouse crapshoot, though. The Pros continue to take it seriously - a bracelet is a bracelet, no matter how you get it.

So today you'll find Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Dario Minieri, Chad Brown and Humberto Brenes among the thousands of hobbyist players, many of whom may well be playing their first ever live event.

Negreanu is off to a decent start, up to over 5,000 from his 3,000 starting stack, and chirping away to his tablemates, who will now have a great WSOP story to tell no matter how their day goes.

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Congratulations to Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari, from Brazil, who managed to cash in event #3, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Low 8 or Better. He finished in 48th place for a $4,925 payout.

Posted in $1,000 No Limit Hold'em, 2009, 2009worldseriesofpoker, Pokerstars, World Series of Poker, danielnegreanu | Comments Off


WSOP Event #4: Ivan, the terrible hair

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

wsop2009_thn.gifAs bad hair days go, this one is a bit of a shocker. Now I'm no expert on the male hairstyle, but I'm told Ivan Demidov has quite a nice head of hair - long and flowing, the ladies call it. But today he has pitched up for the $1,000 No Limit sporting something that can only be described as, well, odd.

Gone are the free-flowing locks, replaced by a curious bead effect that makes the Russian Team PokerStars Pro, who final tabled last year's main event, look like a cross between a tyre tread and a corn dolly. The reason for this monstrous makeover? A prop bet gone bad. That's his excuse anyway.

demidov1k.jpgIvan Demidov

Someone with a bit more style, and well known to PokerStars, is rap star Nelly. Having gotten the bug for playing poker when he joined us at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo earlier this month - initially for the Ante Up for Africa tournament, but then he stayed on to play the main event - he's back for more in Vegas.

I think it would be fair to say Mr Nelly is normally quite "full-on", but as he takes his place among the heaving masses of players in the $1,000 jamboree he's gone for the covered-up look, complete with shades and hoody. Having met him a few weeks back, I recognised the tell-tale mega diamond earrings, and the blingy diamond-encrusted watch peeking out from the hoodie sleeve.

nelly1k.jpgNelly

He might be famous for singing "It's getting hot in here", but today he's been putting on all his clothes.

Gone from the $1,000 are Barry Greenstein - shoving from the small blind with K-8 but being looked up in the big blind with 3-3 - and Vanessa Rousso, who's pocket tens were overtaken by A-2.

We'll bring more news of the $1,000 in later days of the tournament - for now we'll be concentrating on Team PokerStars Pros Greg Raymer and Lex Veldhuis, who are down to the last two tables in the $40,000 No Limit event.

And we'll be keeping an eye on Chad Brown and Andre Akkari, both still slugging it out at the Omaha Hi/Low 8 or Better.

Posted in $1,000 No Limit Hold'em, 2009, 2009worldseriesofpoker, Pokerstars, World Series of Poker, ivandemidov, nelly | Comments Off


WSOP Event #4: Madness and carnage… it can only be the $1K

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

wsop2009_thn.gifAfter the casino staff played event #1, the high rollers coughed up $40,000 for event #2, and folk who play tricky games like Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better played event #3, the seething masses today got what they wanted to kick off their WSOP - the $1,000 no limit hold'em "Stimulous" event, so called because tournament staff wanted something big to help the first weekend go with a bang.

Well, let me tell you, it's not so much a bang as an explosion... an incredible 6,000 have registered, with half of them sitting down today for 1A, and the other half coming tomorrow for their shot at World Series glory.

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With the relatively small buy-in attracting such huge numbers, some have cruelly called this a donkfest. That's a little unkind, and a quick walk around the rooms (yes, the throng means the players are spread around four rooms, from the main Amazon all the way up to the Rio casino area) shows big names are taking this as seriously as they would any event. And why not? There's a bracelet to be won, after all.

So joining the 6,000 or so "Joe Publics" are some of the game's stars. There's Team PokerStars Pros Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso (fresh from her $78,000 cash in the $40,000 event), Ivan Demidov and there was Maridu Mayrinck, but word reaches us of her early demise.

And while all this blood-letting is going on, day three of the $40,000 event is due to start soon, with Team PokerStars Pros Greg Raymer and Lex Veldhuis in the hunt for big money, as well as day two of the Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better, where Chad Brown and Andre Akkari are still going strong.

It's going to be a busy day!

Posted in $1,000 No Limit Hold'em, 2009, 2009worldseriesofpoker, Pokerstars, World Series of Poker | Comments Off