Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy opened to 750 from under the gun, and Lars Bonding called out of the small blind. The flop came down , and both players checked. The turn was the , Bonding led for 1,000, and Josephy called. Both players knuckled after the completed the board and Bonding opened up .
Josephy had the best hand, tabling , and won the pot to push his stack to 24,000 chips.
As we reported earlier Shannon Elizabeth is very short stacked and if the night continues like this it would be like a Scary Movie for her. Should she gain 65,000 more chips Day 2 could be a 70's Show for her. But if she only chips up 4,000 more her stack might look like Thir13een Ghosts staring back at her.
The Grand bagging process might led her to feel Love Actually for the WSOP. But if she doesn't bag up at the end of the night she'll be as mad as some Tomcats. So let's her tablemates play softly against her and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back against another player. Then we'll all be happy and have some American Pie.
A short-stacked player opened with a raise to 850 from early position, and it folded around to Victor Ramdin who defended his big blind. The flop came and both checked. The turn was the . Ramdin bet 1,200, and his opponent called.
The river brought the and checks from both players. "Sixes," said Ramdin, tabling . His opponent exhaled. "Not my day," he said, showing his and staring down at his stack of just over 6,000. "Nothing's good at the moment."
Ramdin's day hasn't gone that well -- he's at 17,000 at the moment -- but he's still smiling. Winning even a small pot will do that for a player.
On a flop, Brad Booth checked, and he let his lone opponent bet 2,200 before raising to 5,500. Mr. Opponent reraised all in for 10,200, and Booth quickly called with his much-bigger stack.
Showdown
Booth:
Opponent:
Booth had flopped the joint with a straight flush redraw that he'd not end up needing. Top set failed Mr. Opponent as the turn and river sent him on his way.
Booth is up to 91,000 now as the push for the Day 1d finish line heats up.
We don't know exactly what happened preflop, but we know a raise took place because there was a decent amount already in the pot. With a flop a player in middle position bet out 1,200. Action was on Huck Seed who quickly and calmly made the call. The turn brought another bet from the player in middle position, this time for 2,500. Seed seemingly reacting and not thinking made the call very quickly again.
With a river both players slowly checked. The player in middle position flipped over first and showed . Seed then went on to make a very long groan of displeasure and dropped his cards in the muck.
As the PokerNews Live Reporting Team made their way past Doug Lee's table, we noticed that Lee was sitting on a rather sizeable stack. When we enquired as to what happened, Lee explained that all the money was in the middle after a flop of .
"Set over set," Lee said. "He had fives, I had sevens. I'm on about 140,000 now." Boom!
We were watching a hand being played between Raymond Davis and an opponent at the far end of Table 127. Meanwhile, Rob Pisano leaned over to let us know he had 72,200 at the moment.
"How much?" asked Lyle Berman, sitting a couple to Pisano's right. "72," he said. "What do you have?" "92," answered Berman, indicating the 92,000 sitting in front of him. "That's a woooorld apart," he added with a grin, and the two commenced to talk about the now-eliminated player from whom Berman secured that chip advantage over Pisano.
Meanwhile Davis was raising to 1,100 from the cutoff and his opponent on the button called. The flop came . Davis checked, his opponent bet 1,350, and Davis called. The turn was the , and Davis again check-called his opponent's bet, this time for 2,700.
The river was the . Davis checked one more time, his opponent fired an 8,000-plus chip bet, and Davis instamucked. He now how 38,000.
The action folded around to Joe Hachem who raised to 800 before the flop from the small blind; the big blind player made the call, so they went heads-up to a flop of , where Hachem led out for 1,200.
The big blind player called, but then folded after the 2005 WSOP Main Event champion fired out 1,900. Hachem's now back up to more than 37,000 in chips.