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WCOOP Event 5 - NL Holdem

A great event to look forward to is Event 5 of the WCOOP on PokerStars on 7th Sept. This is the high roller $10,300 buy-in NLHE.  Standard table size of 9 players at a table.

Currently there are 36 entrants, 13 of which are from Team PokerStars itself.  Those entrants are as follows:

aakkari (Team PokerStars)
Allingomes
Bebop86
Born2Dogbaby
ChadBrownPRO
Dariominieri (Team PokerStars)
DOTTT
Exclusive (Team PokerStars)
GavinGriffin (Team PokerStars)
Goral
holla @ yoboy
HouseeLover
jcamby33
John Duthie (Team PokerStars)
Katja Thater (Team PokerStars)
klslcz
Kravchenko (Team Pokerstars)
LadyMaverick (Team PokerStars)
LucaPagano (Team PokerStars)
MiniTilt
Money800 (Team PokerStars)
Moorman1
nofingclue11
snake8484
stevesbets
stevejpa (Team PokerStars)
stpauli111
taktloss47
Telefonkiosk
THE__D__RY
tjbentham
Tom McEvoy (Team PokerStars)
Tulkaz
VictorRamdin (Team PokerStars)
William

Each player gets 25,000 starting chips and the blind speed is 30 mins per level, starting at 25/50

An interesting (and large) pot just went down between David Benyamine and Durrrr (Tom Dwan) on Full Tilt.  Both very successful high stakes cash players.

They were playing $200/$400 PLO

The money went in on a flop of Td 2c 4s

Benyamine held a not so strong Qh Qd 2h 4c (Bottom 2 pair, with draw possibilities to a spiked set, or to a boat)

Durrrr held a nice looking draw-only hand of Ad 5s 3s 6d (a wide wrap for a straight draw)

I ran the odds here :

Odds of the hands

Basically its a 50/50 coin flip, with durrrr actually a very marginal favourite

The turn came 8d, the river came Qc, and Benyamine scooped a very nice $375,240 pot

Not me unfortunately

KingBenno (aka Lord_Opeth on Full Tilt Poker) ran a $332 balance up to $51,598.50 in a small matter of 180 hands.  Amazing stuff (not jealous at all!). 

He had started off with $1200, and lost some getting down to $332, then the comeback started.   Over the course of the next couple of hours, Lord_Opeth levelled up the tables from 10/20 Omaha to 25/50 Omaha and eventually all the way to the dizzy heights of 200/400 Omaha.  His balance at the end was $51,598.50, following a session of just 180 hands!

All his coin flips came good, and certain hands just fell well.   For example, with his balance at about 11 or 12K he flopped 2 pair Queens and Eights, with his opponent doing the same (also Queens and Eights). All the money went in, but rather than him splitting the pot, he redrew to a better 2 pair (Aces and Queens), spiking an ace on the river.

It was basically a lot of balls, and a good chunk of luck.  Well done KingBenno!

It can often be annoying if a player at a cash table plays a couple of hands and leaves.  A ‘hit and run’ in other words.  It is seen as poor etiquette and should be avoided.  However sometimes someone’s intentions are so evident from the get-go that you cant really be annoyed, but merely amused.  Here is one such occasions with a rather audacious attempt to get rich quick off a 5 big bet buy-in.

PokerStars Game #17457174707:  Hold’em Limit ($200/$400) - 2008/05/15 - 20:30:57 (ET)
Table ‘Mora II’ 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: AleHan ($18874 in chips)
Seat 2: aXeroX ($9880 in chips)
Seat 3: arbianight ($24440 in chips)
Seat 4: tiger76 ($11343 in chips)
Seat 5: TopDog1 ($4000 in chips)
Seat 6: OMGBradPitt ($2000 in chips)
TopDog1: posts small blind $100
OMGBradPitt: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
AleHan: folds
aXeroX: folds
aXeroX said, “5 bb”
arbianight: folds
tiger76: folds
TopDog1: folds
Uncalled bet ($100) returned to OMGBradPitt
aXeroX said, “gl pitt”
OMGBradPitt collected $200 from pot
OMGBradPitt: doesn’t show hand

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aXeroX said, “whats ur goal?”
TopDog1 said, “hit and run”
OMGBradPitt said, “i play 36/60 just a gamble”
aXeroX said, “but for how much?”

—

It started ok for him…

PokerStars Game #17457204946:  Hold’em Limit ($200/$400) - 2008/05/15 - 20:32:23 (ET)
Table ‘Mora II’ 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: AleHan ($18074 in chips)
Seat 2: aXeroX ($9880 in chips)
Seat 3: arbianight ($25535 in chips)
Seat 4: tiger76 ($13138 in chips)
Seat 5: TopDog1 ($15319 in chips)
Seat 6: OMGBradPitt ($1400 in chips)
tiger76: posts small blind $100
TopDog1: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
OMGBradPitt: raises $200 to $400
AleHan: folds
aXeroX: folds
arbianight: folds
tiger76: folds
TopDog1: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [3h 8d 3c]
TopDog1: checks
OMGBradPitt: bets $200
TopDog1: raises $200 to $400
OMGBradPitt: calls $200
*** TURN *** [3h 8d 3c] [2h]
TopDog1: bets $400
OMGBradPitt: calls $400
*** RIVER *** [3h 8d 3c 2h] [Jd]
TopDog1: bets $400
OMGBradPitt: calls $200 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($200) returned to TopDog1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TopDog1: shows [4d 4h] (two pair, Fours and Threes)
OMGBradPitt: shows [6s 6d] (two pair, Sixes and Threes)
OMGBradPitt collected $2895 from pot

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But 24 hands and 1 rebuy later it was all over.  Farewell $4K

PokerStars Game #17457329515:  Hold’em Limit ($200/$400) - 2008/05/15 - 20:38:27 (ET)
Table ‘Mora II’ 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: AleHan ($21349 in chips)
Seat 2: aXeroX ($10475 in chips)
Seat 3: arbianight ($26925 in chips)
Seat 4: tiger76 ($10938 in chips)
Seat 5: TopDog1 ($13405 in chips)
Seat 6: OMGBradPitt ($2195 in chips)
tiger76: posts small blind $100
TopDog1: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
OMGBradPitt: raises $200 to $400
AleHan: raises $200 to $600
aXeroX: folds
arbianight: folds
tiger76: folds
TopDog1: folds
OMGBradPitt: raises $200 to $800
Betting is capped
AleHan: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [4c Tc 8d]
OMGBradPitt: bets $200
AleHan: calls $200
*** TURN *** [4c Tc 8d] [Kd]
OMGBradPitt: bets $400
AleHan: raises $400 to $800
OMGBradPitt: raises $395 to $1195 and is all-in
AleHan: calls $395
*** RIVER *** [4c Tc 8d Kd] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
OMGBradPitt: shows [7c 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
AleHan: shows [Jc Kc] (a flush, Ace high)
AleHan collected $4685 from pot

aXeroX said, “gamble no good”

I guess there is a lesson in bankroll management and/or discipline in there somewhere.  I just hope the 4K gamble (66.6 Big Bets at his normal level) wasn’t too much of a high percentage of his total roll