In the Field

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Gene Bromberg

Can’t be sure if this’ll actually post what with our ‘net issues, but let’s be optimistic!! Here are some of the players who are/were in the field today.

Defending champion Matt Brady:

Last year’s runner-up Johan Storakers:

And last year’s 4th-place finisher, Allie Prescott:

James Van Alstyne, who won a HORSE bracelet at this year’s World Series and came in 2nd in another HORSE event, is sticking with just one game here in Aruba:

Jean-Robert Bellande, like Tiffany Michelle and Annie Duke a veteran of reality television, is keeping it real here in Aruba:

As is Layne Flack:

Jeff Madsen was one of the earliest eliminations of the day, as he flopped a set of fives and then got all the money in the middle when a King fell on the turn. His opponent snap-called with pocket Kings and that sent Madsen to the beach:

Another early elimination was the newest member of Team UB, Joe Sebok, who started off well but lost two big hands holding pocket Kings–once when he ran into Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin’s Aces, another when his opponent made quads. And that was that for the PokerRoad honcho:

Still in the tournament is Joe’s PokerRoad co-host/conspirator Gavin Smith:

And Robert Mizrachi:

P0ker H0 was another early casualty, losing most of his stack before the first break and busting out when he shoved with Q-9 and got called by a player holding Ace-King. Big Slick held up and H0 would not repeat his deep run of a year ago:

Hoping to escape H0’s fate and make the money again this year is Debo34:

While Liv Boeree is out, her pocket Tens bested by pocket Queens.

Bryan Devonshire has been holding fairly steady during play today:

As has Matt Vengrin:

Tiffany Michelle saw her stacked whacked when she lost a race with QQ vs. AK, but after being down to 2,000 she ground her way back to her starting stack of 15,000:

And still in the field as the final level of the day begins are Brandon Cantu:

Michael Binger:

Billy Kopp:

Shawn Rice:

And, last but never least, Lacey Jones:

Annie Duke will not be back for Day 2. Even though she was dealt pocket Aces seven times during play today (and getting Kings and Queens to boot) Annie lost time and time again with those big hands and went out when she flopped top two to her opponent’s bottom set. Sometimes it’s just one of those days, and now Annie gets to spend the rest of her trip enjoying Aruba…which is doubtless not what she wanted.

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2 Responses to “In the Field”

1. TheWookieWay Says:
   October 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

   Lots of Pics. Few words. I like this style of reporting, please continue to use throughout the beautiful Aruba tournament

2. James Tomshay Says:
   October 6th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

   I like Tiffany Michelle and John-Robert Bellande to go deep in the poker tournament this year! Best of luck to all of them though. I hope to enter in 2010.

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