2010 World Series of Poker Main Event

[longhornbaseball]

Winning the 50k then winning the ME would be the greatest tournament poker accomplishment ever. He seems like a good guy too.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

16/27 now

They play to the FT tomorrow.

[cardsfansince82]

He seems like a good guy too.

I played with him for about an hour and he seemed pretty cool. One of the strip casinos paid him to come play their nightly $100 or whatever tournament for a month a few summers ago to draw people in. He ended up at my table and I eventually busted him out. Not that it counts for much since I'm sure that's the last place he wanted to be but I won a bounty and those chips helped me make the money in the tourney too. He was very friendly to everyone and even took pictures and signed autos for anyone that wanted them.

[longhornbaseball]

He's the only "famous" player left. I've heard of Johnny Lodden, William Thorson, Matt Affleck, and Adam Levy. Levy was the victim of a Hellmuth [expletive] fest a couple years ago when he made a straight against Phil's set with QT. It was pretty funny.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

I think we've found our luckbox.

Filippi Candio raised and Joseph Cheong reraised to 1.125 million. Candio made the call.

The flop came down {6-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{5-Clubs} and Cheong fired 1.55 million. Candio thought and then announced a raise. He made it 4.425 million. Cheong now had the pressure back on him and tanked. He then moved all in, putting Candio at risk if he would make the call. Candio had 12.1 million and made the call, creating a massive pot of over 25 million!

Candio turned up the {7-Spades}{5-Spades} for sixes and fives. He was in a world of hurt to Cheong's {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}.

The fans rose and inched closer as Candio left his seat and took refuge behind the media desk. Cheong sat in his chair and waited patiently for the turn and river.

The turn brought the {8-Spades} and Cheong dodged one card, but Candio did pick up outs. He now had a straight draw.

The river completed the board with the {4-Clubs} and Candio spiked his straight. He began running and jumping around off the final table set before embracing with a friend in celebration. Cheong just sat in his seat and counted out the chips to be sent over to Candio. He was knocked down to about 13 million while Candio jumped to a whopping 27 million and is the new leader.

[GeddyWrox]

Wow. [expletive] runner runner.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

He's the only "famous" player left. I've heard of Johnny Lodden, William Thorson, Matt Affleck, and Adam Levy. Levy was the victim of a Hellmuth [expletive] fest a couple years ago when he made a straight against Phil's set with QT. It was pretty funny.

Affleck just took a sick beat and was eliminated.

There are monsterpotten and then there are MONSTERpotten. It's a silly game, sometimes, poker is. Matt Affleck's chance at fortune and glory just slipped through his fingers after a stunning beat for a monsterpotten at the hand of Jonathan Duhamel.

Duhamel started things with a raise to 550,000 from the cutoff position. Affleck had the button and three-bet to 1.55 million. His re-raise folded the blinds and brought the action back to Duhamel. Duhamel four-bet to 3,925,000 and was called by Affleck, creating a pot with 8.0 million chips in it before the flop!

Duhamel seemed to sense he was in trouble. He checked a ten-high flop, {10-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{7-Hearts}, and soon faced a 5.0-million-chip bet from Affleck. Duhamel called that bet to see the {q-Diamonds} hit the turn. Again he checked. Affleck did the only thing he could do -- he moved all in for 11.6 million chips.

Duhamel had Affleck covered, but it was still a huge decision. He asked for a count, which due to the size of Affleck's stack took about a minute to determine. Then Duhamel went into the tank. The leading speculation in the media tower was that he had pocket jacks and was stuck with a horrible decision.

A minute and a half after he got Affleck's count, Duhamel peeked at his cards and puffed his cheeks out in a big sigh. Thirty seconds later he stole a glance at Affleck. Another minute. Duhamel shook his head. Then thirty seconds later, almost five minutes after Affleck pushed all in, Duhamel called!

Duhamel: {j-Hearts}{j-Clubs}
Affleck: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}

Affleck immediately stood up. The pot was huge, a total of 42 million chips. If his aces could hold, he'd be almost assured a berth in the November Nine. The entire rail leaned forward in anticipation...

River: {8-Diamonds}

[longhornbaseball]

I guess he called because Affleck looked like a man beaten by jacks.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

I guess he called because Affleck looked like a man beaten by jacks.

nicely done

[cardsfansince82]

Ouch. I was playing poker last night with a couple friends of Brandon Steven. Apparently he's a regular at the 5-10 and higher cash games at Harrah's in KC. Wake up today and find out he was the bubble boy.

Grinder is 7th in chips heading to November but I think he's in much better position to make a run at it than Ivey last year.