DAY
FOUR
No
bracelets? No
money? No problem!
You'd
send your nickel-dime
playing granny
against this
lineup, right?
No WSOP bracelets
among them.
None! Total
WSOP earnings
for the group:
under $450,000.
They have a
whopping seven
Final Tables
in all WSOP
events with
one second as
the best result.
Three of them
had never made
a penny in the
Series before
today.
Those
who like to
complain, "tournaments
are always won
by the same
people" will
have to be still
for a while.
How's
this for formidable
credentials?
These are the
final nine's
prior WSOP earnings.
Our
chip leader,
John Shipley:
$37,270
Russ Rosenblum:
$0
Rafael Perry
(aka Perovskin)
$58,340
Rob Varkonyi:
$0
Minh Ly: $62,155
Scott Gray:
$12,200
Julian Gardner:
$0
Tony D: $228,532
Harley Hall:
$25,260
Only
Shipley (42nd,
2000) and Tony
D (13th, 2001)
have ever cashed
in any WSOP
No-Limit event.
They were both
in the $10,000
Championship.
What
do all these
statistics mean?
Absolutely Nothing!
Trust me, your
dear granny
would get crushed
by this group.
They all can
play.
The
Final Table
was setup when
Don Barton couldn't
get off a hand
when he was
raised by John
Shipley. On
second button,
Barton bet out
on the flop
of J 10 9. Shipley
on the button
raised $100k.
Don had A Q
that gave him
an up and down
straight draw.
Barton went
all-in. Shipley
called with
trip Jacks.
With two short
stacks, Barton
might have picked
a better spot
to make a stand.
But
Don might have
still been steaming
from the beat
the other Brit
at the table
had just given
him. Julian
Gardner could
have been out
of this tournament
a couple of
times. His wizardry
is still working.
Don Barton had
Julian dominated
all-in just
prior to Barton's
exit in 10th
to John Shipley.
Don had A K,
Julian was all-in
with A 10. No
worries! When
a 10 rips right
off the deck,
you know you
can do magic.
There
are dozens of
great stories
on Day Three.
I don't have
the space to
tell them all.
It was an exciting
day. If you'd
like to really
experience what
happened you
should watch
the Internet
feed on www.binions.com.
Anyway,
two of the best
stories of the
day involve
the chip leader
for tomorrow's
Final Table,
John Shipley,
and the guy
second in chips,
Russ Rosenblum.
They
say you have
to get lucky
to win a poker
tournament,
but this is
ridiculous!
John Shipley,
by rights, should
have been history
on Day Two.
John had A K
and was all-in.
Phil Ivey had
flopped a set
of threes with
his pocket pair.
Phil made a
full house when
another Ace
came on the
turn. John had
three Aces.
Oops! Make that
Quad Aces on
the river. John
had caught runner
runner Quads.
Shipley is still
alive and goes
on a two day
rush. Phil Ivey
never fully
recovers and
finishes 23rd.
Fate? Karma?
Who knows?
Russ
Rosenblum had
made one of
the great recoveries
of WSOP history
to have $927,000
in chips. Rosenblum
made one of
the worst mistakes
of his life
to nearly put
himself out
of the tournament.
Early
in Day Three,
Russ bets $18,000
on a 10 3 10
flop. Julian
Gardner comes
over the top
for $50k to
go. Russ has
a pair of Jacks
and reraises
it to $100,000.
Instantly and
dramatically,
Julian Gardner
knocks his stacks
over into the
pot, all-in.
Rosenblum is
so shocked by
this move that
he gets up and
walks into a
service area
behind his table.
Co-Tournament
Director, Matt
Savage, comes
looking for
him to find
out what he
wants to do.
While still
standing away
from the table
Russ says, "I
fold."
Even
though Russ
isn't in his
seat, Savage
says that the
verbal bet in
turn is binding.
Now Russ realizes
his error and
what's Gardner's
stack counted
down to see
what it would
take to call
the reraise.
Too late, the
fold stands.
Gardner slams
a pair of 6's
down on the
table. Rosenblum
would have had
Julian drawing
to a 6 and probably
out of the tournament.
Instead of nearly
$400,000 in
chips if he'd
called the small
Gardner reraise,
Russ Rosenblum
now has $32,000.
"I play better
with only a
few chips,"
was Rosenblum's
answer to how
he came back.
Lastly,
the performance
of Harley Hall
has to be mentioned.
Hall started
the day in 40th
position out
of 45. He passed
31 players to
get to the Final
Table. A couple
of those players
had hundreds
of thousands
of dollars more
in chips than
he did.
It's
easy to have
fun with the
WSOP histories
of our last
nine. They can
take it; they
will be making
a fortune on
Friday. But
make no mistake.
These guys beat
a world-class
field that included
13 former World
Champions and
nearly all of
the WSOP millionaires.
That they aren't
famous poker
players is only
temporary.
No
bracelets? No
money? No Problem!
THE
FINAL TABLE
1 hr 42 mins
left of 2 hours.
$3,000 ante.
The blinds are
$8,000/$16,000
Player
Hometown Chip
Count
Seat
1 Tony D (Tam
Duong) Los Angeles
CA $ 231,000
Seat 2 Julian
Gardner Manchester,
UK $ 394,000
Seat 3 Scott
Gray Dublin,
Ireland $ 545,000
Seat 4 Rafael
Perry Las Vegas
NV $ 766,000
Seat 5 Minh
Ly Las Vegas
NV $ 614,000
Seat 6 Rob Varkonyi
Brooklyn NY
$ 640,000
Seat 7 John
Shipley Solihull,
UK $2,033,000
Seat 8 Russ
Rosenblum Bethesda
MD $ 927,000
Seat 9 Harley
Hall San Juan
Capistrano CA
$ 161,000
Official
Money Winners
1.
$2,000,000
2. $1,100,000
3. $ 550,000
4. $ 281,480
5. $ 195,000
6. $ 150,000
7. $ 120,000
8. $ 100,000
9. $ 85,000
10th-12th
received $70,000
Don Barton (Pahrump
NV), Amir Nasseri
(Henderson NV),
Owen Mullan
(Ireland)
13th-15th
received $60,000
Martin de Knijff
(Sweden), Yosh
Nankano (Las
Vegas NV), James
Neely (Land
O' Lakes FL)
16th-18th
received $50,000
Bernard Ko (Sunnyvale
CA), Sigi Stockington
(Austria), David
Rubin (Mill
Valley CA)
19th-27th
received $40,000
Mike Fetter
(Long Beach
CA), Stephen
Wilsdon (England),
Jack Fox (Reno
NV), Dave Crunkleton,
(Las Vegas NV),
Phil Ivey (Atlantic
City NJ), Minh
Nguyen (Bell
Gardens CA),
Lamar Wilkinson
(Pacheco CA),
Kurt Paseka
(Bayside NY),
Ray January
(Vancouver WA)
28th-36th
received $30,000
Luan Phu (San
Jose CA), Sam
Whitt (Lima
OH), Rameen
Sai (Ireland),
Scott Amos (Carrollton
OH), Steve Melton
(Noble OK),
Eric Holum (Las
Vegas NV), Ross
Boatman (England),
Randy Holland
(Orange CA),
Tom Schneider
(Phoenix AZ)
37th-45th
received $20,000
Hertzel Zalewski
(Houston TX),
Doug Booth (Bowling
Green KY), Jason
'Kid Wonder'
Lane (Chandler
AZ), Brian Haveson
(Newton PA),
Greg Alston
(Walnut Creek
CA), David Sklansky
(Las Vegas NV),
Dan Heimiller
(Livonia MI),
Tristan McDonald
(England), Peter
Giordano (Liverpool
NY)
Mike
Paulle
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