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Posted by Dave McCarthy | Filed under Bloggers Corner, WSOP
Congratulations to our caption contest winners! There were a lot of good submissions; it was tough to pick just one for each.
Stay tuned for another caption contest this week…
Photo A:
While the dealer is looking away, Schoenberg uses her secret Jedi-Forces to switch cards.
– H311f14m3
Photo B:
“Hey Phil, go ahead and bust out so we can hit the Waffle House.”
– rgreen5150
Photo C:
Andy Bloch plays a peaceful game of Scrabble, most likely for a $100k prop bet.
– Ezyrider77
Tags: Andy Bloch, caption contest, Erica Schoenberg, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
We were treated with two of the slower days of the 2010 WSOP but things are definitely ramping back up today. Starting right off the bat will be the fast-and-furious insanity that is a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament followed by some of the best players hitting the Amazon Room for the restart of the $10,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven World Championship and the $1,500 Seven Card Stud tournament. Throw in a single table WSOP Tournament of Champions Qualifier tournament taking place off-site and we have plenty to keep us hopping throughout the day.
Last year the Pot Limit Omaha events were an aberration compared to the rest of the tournaments. Even the $1,000 NLHE tournament were no match for the speed in which players were sent to the rail showing up with a bucket full of gamble. Due to the size of the fields and depth of the stacks it was rare for an event last year to play down to it’s final table on Day 2 yet the PLO fields managed to get there (with the exception of Event #35 which stopped play at 11). There is just something about hearing “Pot, repot, all-in” constantly that builds the pots and ships players off the table at an incredible pace. Those who can manage their situation and squish the soft players will find themselves sitting very comfortably. Last year this event made the money at the end of Day 1 and was eventually conquered by Jason Mercier.
Less than a third of the $10,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven field was eliminated on the first day giving us 72 players returning today in the Amazon Room. As expected, this field was a spectrum players from all generations. From Billy Baxter to Chris Ferguson to Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Big money and reputations are again on the line as only the best players were willing to put up the 10 large for a single draw lowball game. Full Tilt’s Nick Schulman won his first WSOP last year in this event and is still alive coming into Day 2 with a chance to defend his crown.
There was some interesting side action in this game as the night wore on. It seems Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Tony G had some bizarre last longer bet that somehow required a certain number of pushups. To give himself a little edge, Dwan put a $500 bounty on “The G” for good measure. A small percentage of the event buyin but Howard Lederer missed the announcement but not Andy Bloch. Shortly after having a chance knock him out Lederer realized his “mistake” but Bloch picked up the small bounty shortly after. Dwan won the prop and comes into Day 2 sitting 6th in chips. You can find the complete chip counts here.
$10,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball top ten chip counts:
1 – Homan Houshiar – 116,100
2 – Tommy Vedes – 112,600
3 – David “Bakes” Baker – 104,000
4 – Eric Cloutier – 83,500
5 – Anton Allemann – 80,600
6 – Tom “durrrr” Dwan – 64,100
7 – Brandon Cantu – 63,000
8 – Billy Baxter – 61,200
9 – Joe Cassidy – 60,300
10 – Doug Booth – 59,600
The $5,000 NLHE tournament will award the only bracelet of the day and it may be a long one. There are 18 players returning today including Full Tilt’s “pizza hat” wearing Perry Friedman and David Benefield. Others with a shot include Jason DeWitt (chip leader), Antonio Esfandiari, Amit Makhija, and Manny Minaya. When this event hit the money late yesterday it marked the first 2010 WSOP cash for Annette Obrestad.
Day 13 pictures after the jump:
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erica Schoenberg, Perry Friedman, Phil Ivey, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
The crutch of a weak writer is a post with nothing but photos. Luckily we have access to some of the best in the room and I make no claim to be anything other than a hack. The first week of the WSOP is in the books so we thought we would share some of our favorite pics from the the last 7 days worth of tournaments.
The picture to the right is easily my favorite of the summer. New Full Tilt pro Annette Obrestad was making her long awaited debut mid-week and instantly found herself an entertaining table. EPT San Remo champion Liv Boeree was sitting a few seats to her left with poker multi-tasker and twitter phenom Joe Sebok to her immediate right. As the attention was focused on Obrestad, Sebok couldn’t help but photobomb (I believe that is what the kids are calling it) one of the shots. It didn’t take long for this image to get blasted all over the internet.
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Perry Friedman is also one to never disappoint. Last year he spent the WSOP wearing a “grill” and cornrows in his hair. This year he said he was keeping it a little easier since it became an issue getting the Full Tilt logo reshaved in his head on a regular basis. For this series he bought himself a boatload of silly hats which would change with each event. If a player busts him from the event, the hat is used as a bounty to memorialize the knockout. When asked how many hats he brought along he said, “Probably around fifteen but I only want to give away two.” You heard it hear first, Perry Friedman would like to win 13 bracelets this year. Jester hat, chicken hat, dreadlock hat, and a putting green. Unfortunately he has already gone over his allotted budget of two bounties.
Finally, Andy Black does not seem amused but it probably had more to do with the $10,000 Stud Championship.
You can find the rest of WSOP Week 1 in pictures after the jump:
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Amanda Baker, Andrew Lichtenberger, Annette Obrestad, Bloggers on the Rail, Eli Elezra, Erica Schoenberg, Erick Lindgren, Gavin Smith, Huck Seed, James Akenhead, John Juanda, Perry Friedman, Praz Bansi, Steve Zolotow, Tom Dwan, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
After getting an expected “day off” last Sunday due to certain technical difficulties, this Sunday provided extra fun making up for my forced laziness. Yesterday brought the first of 4 events dubbed “The Big Little Tournament”. A $250,000 guarantee tournament for just a $5.50 buyin drew over 46,000 players and some of the most insane action ever. 46,000 players were whittled down to a winner in 9 hours of play which works out to over 5,000 eliminated each hour, 85 players every 60 seconds. Consider the play slowed down near the end and you get an idea of just how quickly things moved along in the early hours.
Full Tilt pro Karina Jett was the big name hanging in there near the end, coming up short in 28th but she did outlast 99.94% of the field. 7,500 players cashed in this event so you will forgive me for not going over the entire list. It was a great turnout for another promotion aimed at the lower bankrolled players and continue again next week at the same time. 13:45ET next time will make this event seem sane as that will bring us the Turbo version of “The Big Little Tournament”.
Another tournament which hit my radar yesterday was the $200,000 guarantee rebuy event. I may have to keep this one in my permanent rotation of tournament railbirding along with the Big Money Sunday events and $200k Double Deuce. With the $150 rebuy format it seems to attract a very pro-heavy field and some great action. This week we had Erica Schoenberg collect a cool $30,000 for her third place finish, Ryan “ryanghall” Hall was also at the final table and Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd finshed 10th as the final table bubble boy. Jon “Pearljammer” Turner was just another big name on the list out in 12th. Railbirds delight, we’ll see how it looks next week.
Mystery player “Str8Foward” continues his hot play over the last month with his 3rd place finish in the $750,000 Guarantee which is also his third 5-digit cash in less than a month. He even turned a $11 satellite into the $100,000 Guarantee into a $2,000 cash. If anyone has any information on this player, feel free to pass it along. I think I would like to have a conversation for the blog.
You can find the final table results after the jump. Don’t forget to sign up for next week’s “The Big Little Tournament” or hit up the super cheap satellites.
Tags: AlCantHang, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, Erica Schoenberg, Jon Turner, Karina Jett
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
With all the excitement of the Day 1d sell out, massive amounts of Ante Up for Africa pictures, and trying to track down our players scattered amongst a sea of over 2,800 players I just never had the time to share with you the pictures from Day 1c. I will quickly remedy that as well as bring you some of the best photos from yesterday.
Enjoy.
More pics after the jump:
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Craig Marquis, David Oppenheim, Erica Schoenberg, Erick Lindgren, Jeff Madsen, Kelly Kim, Lynette Chan, Maya Antonius, Mike Stout, Phil Ivey, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
We’ve put another week of the 2009 World Series of Poker in the books with more craziness. The crowds continue to storm the hallways of the Amazon Room looking for a table and a chance. The crazies are starting to make their way onto the scene, pros and amateurs are mingling together with a common goal, chip runners stay busy 24 hours a day.
While all this is going on, the good folks at Image Masters continue to provide us with some great action shots during the tournaments. Every morning I receive pictures from the day before that I use to enhance the stories I try to bring the readers. I hope they’ve added to the experience.
Today I bring you some photos from Week 2 of the 2009 World Series of Poker without my ramblings. A small taste of what we have available, look for a full gallery coming in the next few days. All pictures courtesy of Image Masters.
Pictures after the jump, click to enlarge:
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Black, Beth Shak, Bloggers on the Rail, David Chiu, Erica Schoenberg, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, Huck Seed, Jennifer Harman, John Cernuto, John Juanda, Katrina Jett, Perry Friedman, Phil Ivey, Pictures of the Week, Svetlana Gromenkova, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
In my other life as a completely unprofessional blogger (I am semi-pro at best in this space), I always take the stand that posting nothing but pictures on your site is just the crutch of a weak blogger. Words are hard, pretty picture keep the masses coming back. However, pictures can have the great effect of enhancing a story and I’ve been getting some top shelf images sent my way via Images Masters. Each Friday I’ll share with you some of the best images available.
All images credited to IMDPI.
Pictures after the jump, click to enlarge.
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Allen Cunningham, Amanda Baker, Bloggers on the Rail, Chris Ferguson, Eli Elezra, Erica Schoenberg, Erick Lindgren, Jeff Madsen, Jerry Yang, Michael Craig, Phil Ivey, Pictures of the Week, Vitaly Lunkin, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
With the 2009 WPT World Championship going on at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, queen of the WPT Amanda Leatherman sits down with the top players during breaks for short, informal video interviews. I’ll be posting some of them over the next few days so you can get some inside info on your favorite players. They have a bunch from the Full Tilt pros and I’ll start with two of my favorites.
After the jump you can find interviews with Erica Schoenberg talking about beer pong and Kristy Gazes discussing many things.
Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erica Schoenberg, Kristy Gazes, WPT
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Nenad Medic playing in the 2008 Festa al Lago tournament at the Bellagio
Poker legend Doyle Brunson in the foreground
Photo credit: WorldPokerTour.com
Full Tilt pros continue to make during WPT Main Events. This time up it’s Nenad Medic making the final table of Festa al Lago held at the Bellagio this weekend. The $15,000 buyin tournament brought out a small but very tough field of 368 players with first place taking away $1,411,015.
Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erica Schoenberg, Nenad Medic
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Well folks, today is a very sad day for all of here at The Rail, as Big Donkey is officially no longer with us. And today is especially sad for me, because now I have to (at least temporarily) take over The Week at FTP. Fear not faithful readers (there have to be at least two or three of you at this point, right?), for I will do my best to fill Big Donkey’s rather large and donktastic shoes. So without further ado, let’s get this weekly wrap-up under way:
Tags: Erica Schoenberg, FTOPS
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