(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 14
Recapping the Monday overnight at the World Series of Poker:
Brian Lemke Goes ShronkDaddy on 5k Final Table
Brian Lemke, cousin of the late Justin Shronk of PokerRoad and PokerNews, came back from a 4 to 1 chip deficit against Fabian Quoss to take down the $5,000 NL Holdem event for his first WSOP cash, final table, and bracelet, picking up $692,690 in the process. Quoss collected $427,911 for the 2nd place finish. An emotional Lemke dedicated the win to Shronk, saying “He was with me the whole time – the entire time. I know he brought that queen for me.” (The final hand had Lemke holding A-8 to Quoss’ A-Q, the board ran out 9-10-J-Q-x). “I miss him and that bracelet is dedicated to him, my family, my grandma, and his momâ€.
All the Ladies at the Final Table, Say Yeahhhhh!
The $1,000 Ladies NL Holdem World Championship has their final table which will be seated as follows, with the final table streamed at 2pm on ESPN360:
Seat 1: Mari Lou Morelli 320,000
Seat 2: Lisa Parsons 427,000
Seat 3: Dawn Thomas 212,000
Seat 4: Lisa Hamilton 527,000
Seat 5: Lisa Santy 196,000
Seat 6: Angel Pedroza 522,000
Seat 7: Lori Bender 643,000
Seat 8: Kimberly Cunningham 140,000
Seat 9: Kim Rios 197,000
Omaha 8, 17 Looking to be Great
Meanwhile, the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship is down to its final 17 players, with John Monnette looking to get the bracelet that Phil Ivey had won from him in the $2,500 NL 2-7 Lowball event last week. Monnette is the dominant chip leader (1,141,000) with Ben Boyd in 2nd place (663,000). Eight bracelet winners make up the other half of the field, topped by Scott Clements (477,000),
Daniel Alaei (297,000) and Ville Wahlbeck (231,000). The other bracelet winners: Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Toto Leonidas, Ted Lawson, and Alex Kravchenko. Play resumes this afternoon with the final table scheduled to air at around 2pm PT at www.bluffmagazine.com/live.
$2,500 6-max Going All Out on Day 2
2pm today also brings the return of 135 players for Day 2 of the $2,500 NL Holdem 6-max event, of which 108 will make the money. Brett “threatnasty” Switzer is the chip leader (183,000), with Brock Parker in 6th place trying to pick up a second bracelet this WSOP (138,900). Among the notables: Howard Lederer (93,900), Shaun Deeb (80,100), Neil Channing (59,000), and Erick Lindgren (31,600).
Two for Tuesday and Projections
It’s a return to double duty for the WSOP, with the 12pm tournament the $1,500 Pot-Limit Holdem event, which was won last year by David Singer in a field of 713, collecting over $210,000. The 5pm tournament is $3,000 HORSE, which was won last year by Jens Voertmann taking home almost $300,000 in a field of 414.
The WSOP Staff Guide projections for today’s events: $1,500 PL Holdem – 713 (take the under, with around 685). $3,000 HORSE is projected at 435 (take the under as well, I’ll guess 403).
More stuff during the day so check back to Pokerati frequently.
BJ Nemeth says:
June 9th, 2009 at 10:38am
I found a KevMath error! I found a KevMath error!
(Sorry for the giddiness, but he’s found like 100 of my errors to zero of his … grrr …)
In your PokerNews recap of Brian Lemke’s victory, you made the same mistake as the announcer when he said that a king on the river would win the pot for Quoss. Nope, the two players would chop the pot with identical ace-high straights.
I didn’t want to make the comment over on PokerNews, but if it’s possible to fix it, maybe nobody else will notice. (For the record, I completely understand how this happens, because I’m extremely error-free and it still happens to me once in a while.)
Ed says:
June 9th, 2009 at 12:53pm
i found one too but not sure if he would mind me editing the post.
it looks like the “around 2pm PT” link is not closing and making the last two paragraphs all part of that link.
easy to fix but like i said…not sure if big kev would make a trip to texas just to kick my ass for messing with his post. 🙂
Kevin Mathers says:
June 9th, 2009 at 12:55pm
I mess up so many tags Ed, please fix away 🙂
Ed says:
June 9th, 2009 at 1:28pm
Next time (like there will be a next time with Dan in charge) I will know that it is ok for me to edit the post and fix the mess up.