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Fortunately for Greenstein, his nemesis is making his threats from another table, and will have to wait for his opportunity.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 23 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,000
Entries
1,344
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Fortunately for Greenstein, his nemesis is making his threats from another table, and will have to wait for his opportunity.
The most recent player to restart the repetetive Queen loop is Vivek Rajkumar. He raised a large segment of his stack from the cutoff with Q-9, but was set all in by Blair Hinkle's pocket sixes.
Rajkumar made the call, and must have felt relieved to be coin-flipping, but to no avail as the A-10-7-4-3 bricked out and sent him home.
A large chunk of this recent surge came courtesy of his encounter with Alan Myerson, Hinkle eliminating his foe with nines versus deuces.
Ellis has encountered minor fluctuations, but never really neared that 100,000 mark. "I lost a coinflip that would have got me up to a hundred. I would have been able to play then."
Ellis currently has around 50,000.
He raised to 11,100 preflop, and Paul Smith to his direct left made it 30,000. A short-stacked Charles Dolan called all in, and Tate reraised all in -- Smith asked for a count, and was told it was around 40,000. Smith called.
Dolan:
Smith:
Tate:
Tate scooped the lot, Dolan was eliminated, and Smith had to pay up, but it turned out the dealer had miscounted the chips. Eventually the floor ruled that Smith had to pay the extra chips regardless -- he looked rather sour as he said, "1,000 more?" holding up a single yellow chip. But then he laughed as he handed it over to Tate.
Alessandro Dalbello =
Board =
Dalbello up to 111,000.
As seems customary with any of his showdowns, Bircheff rises from his seat, walks around and shouts out random motivational phrases to himself.
As the final card is dealt, he positively erupts, shouting, punching the air and generally refusing to confine any tensions he may have.
His recent encounter followed a similar pattern, and again it wasn't until the hand was reported that we actually found out who'd won.
It was Tom Braband who was all in, his A-K looking to hit against Bircheff's nines. However, no ace or king emerged, the third nine on the turn of a 7-5-2-9-8 board giving Bircheff the set, the hand, and a notch on his poker bedpost.
Bircheff is now on 80,000.