Bayou Poker Challenge Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans
Bayou Poker Challenge Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$1,196,650
Entries
249
Level
17
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000
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Today began at noon with 69 players, and it took until just before midnight to whittle the field down to the lucky nine who will play for the championship. These players will get to sleep in a couple extra hours tomorrow, and will have fancy new seats up on stage in the Harrah's Theatre when they return to start play at 2:00 p.m. CDT.
Of note is the fact that Lou Esposito, who won the $5,000 circuit championship event a year ago here at Harrah's New Orleans (May 2007), and final tabled the one after that (December 2007), has made it to Day 3. Additionally, Jeff Tims, winner of Event #12 here at the Bayou Poker Challenge, will have a shot at his second title in this series of events. In that recent win, he pocketed just over $58,000 and can improve on that by a big margin if he can manage to outlast the field in this championship event.
Thanks for joining us here today, and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. local time, as we crown the last WSOP Circuit Champion of the 2008 season.
Seat 1: Floyd Vanderford - 65,000
Seat 2: Chuck Kelley - 142,000
Seat 3: Lou Esposito - 116,000
Seat 4: Timothy "TK" Miles - 687,000
Seat 5: Jeff Tims - 345,000
Seat 6: Ed Jatho - 406,000
Seat 7: Marc Fratter - 321,000
Seat 8: Gabe Costner - 166,000
Seat 9: Nick Ceci - 256,000
Shahen:
Miles:
The flop hit both players with
. Shahen would need to hit runner-runner for a flush, straight, or big full house in order to avoid elimination. Unfortunately for Shahen, the necessary cards did not come and Shahen is our 10th-place finisher. The remaining players will consist our final table. The players are currently in the process of bagging and tagging their chips.
The flop comes down
, and Shahen continues out for 40,000. Miles again makes the call in position.The turn card is the
, and Shahen keeps the pressure on with another 80,000. Miles raises all in for a total of 195,000, prompting a series of sighs and grunts from his opponent. At the end of this, Shahen does make the call with his 
, and sees the bad news that he is drawing very slim against the 
of Timothy Miles. The 
on the river means that Shahen will ship a significant chunk of chips across the table to Miles.After the biggest pot of the tournament, Timothy Miles is up to approximately 575,000, and Shahen is now the short stack, with around 75,000 remaining.
-- The current average chip stack is 249,000, meaning the average player has 31 big blinds.
-- There are currently 23 minutes remaining in the 14th level of play.
-- Talk of Timothy Miles getting his hair cut overnight is increasing. Some of his opponents have even offered to chip in to help cover the costs.
, Fratter bet 40,000. Miles then moved all in and Fratter insta-called. Frater:
Miles:
Turn card:
River card:
After this hand, Frater moved up to around 320,000 and Miles moved down to around 268,000.
Seat 1: Floyd Vanderford - 80,000
Seat 2: Chuck Kelley - 120,000
Seat 3: Lou Esposito - 85,000
Seat 4: Timothy "TK" Miles - 380,000
Seat 5: Jeff Tims - 380,000
Seat 6: Ed Jatho - 365,000
Seat 7: Marc Fratter - 164,000
Seat 8: Gabe Costner - 195,000
Seat 9: Fatolla Shahen - 390,000
Seat 10: Nick Ceci - 230,000
The flop comes
, and Brice continues the betting with 40,000 more. Jatho fingers four of his shiny new yellow chips, worth 10,000 each, and flips them into the pot.The turn card is the
, and Brice moves the rest of his stack to the center -- 79,000 in chips. Jatho looks a bit flustered and shifts uneasily in his seat."Did you make trips?" he ponders. "Give me just a minute," he says apologetically, as he slouches over the chair next to him, contemplating the situation. After several minutes, he makes the call, putting Brice at risk of extinction.
Jatho turns over the
, and sees that he made a good call against Brice's . The 
on the river fails to save Brice, and he is headed out in 11th place.
Jatho:
Vanderford:
The flop comes
and Vanderford improves to a pair of kings. The turn is the 
and the river the 
.Vanderford doubles up through Jatho to around 95,000. Jatho compliments him by saying, "Nice hand, guy."
Vanderford replies, "Thanks. I got lucky."