Annette Obrestad Folds Full House
With the three starting flights out of the way and all the registration and prize pool numbers discussed, it is time to make the trek into the meat of the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event. We’re still not yet at a single, unified field, but we’re getting closer. On Tuesday, the 505 survivors from Day 1A and the 1,428 from Day 1B competed in the simultaneous Days 2A and 2B, respectively. At total of 822 emerged from the two Day 2’s combined with Florida’s Timothy Stansifer coming out of the fray as the chip leader, holding 481,500 chips.
Stansifer has a fairly sizable chip lead over his closest pursuers, but three more players do have over 400,000: Thomas Cannuli (407,800), Tony Ruberto (402,700), and Joe Kuether (401,200). Martin Jacobson, the man who was the chip leader doing into Day 2A, is still doing quite well, sitting in eleventh place with 342,700 chips.
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Hand 9 is with Annette, she has As10s against ultra experienced pro Chris Bjorin, the flop is 873cc and it looks like Annette raised pre and was called out of the bb by Bjorin. She bets 1000 into 1575. The turn is the Jh, and Obrestad tries 2300 into 3575. Bjorin sticks around to the 8s river. Bjorin goes for the sneaky check but Annette gives up. With the blinds at 6,000/12,000, Annette 'Annette15' Obrestad raised to 24,000 from under the gun, then LStrelec reraised to 59,874 from the button. It folded to lechuckpoker in the big blind who four-bet to 129,000, then Obrestad pushed all in for 460,520 total.
Annette Obrestad Broke
So far, the tournament has been pretty kind to former Main Event winners. While 2012 WSOP Main Event winner Greg Merson, 1983 champ Tom McEvoy, and 1995 champ Dan Harrington all bowed out Tuesday, last year’s victor Ryan Riess (84,900 chips), 2003 winner Chris Moneymaker (220,000), 1996 winner Huck Seed (96,500), and back-to-back 1987 and 1988 champion Johnny Chan (46,600) all made it through to Day 3.
Some notable names that will not advance to Thursday are Annette Obrestad, George Danzer, Mike Matusow, Josh Arieh, Liv Boeree, and Dennis Phillips. Obrestad may have suffered the harshest beat of the day. In Level 9, David Farber raised pre-flop Obrestad called, and Garrett Greer called from the big blind. On the flop of T♥-8♠-6♥, action checked around to Obrestad who bet 3,700. Greer called, but then Farber raised to 11,500. Obrestad then re-raised all-in for 48,600, forcing Greer to fold. Farber thought about it for a short time and finally made the call, turning over J♦-J♠ for an overpair to the board. Obrestad had him nailed, though, as she had 9♦-7♦, giving her the flopped nut straight. The 6♠ on the turn kept Farber alive, giving him a shot at a full house, and that’s exactly what happened as the J♣ spiked on the river. Farber had caught a runner-runner boat, eliminating Obrestad from the tournament. That also helped Farber end the day in 19th place with 286,900 chips.
Today, the survivors from Monday’s Day 1C will reconvene for Day 2C. It will be a bigger second day than Days 2A and 2B combined, with 2,571 players returning to the Rio. On Thursday, all of those who made it through Day 2 will finally be compacted into one field for Day 3.
2014 World Series of Poker Main Event – Combined Day 2A and 2B Chip Leaders
1. Timothy Stansifer – 481,500
2. Thomas Cannuli – 407,800
3. Tony Ruberto – 402,700
4. Joe Kuether – 401,200
5. Cai Zhen – 367,900
6. John Sacha – 364,400
7. Munir Shahin – 361,900
8. Kyle Keranen – 358,000
9. Timothy Reilly – 354,500
10. Thomas Roupe – 349,600
After turning in deep runs in the 2009 and 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Events, Matt “mcmatto” Affleck is making poker headlines once again. This time, he’s pacing the field of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago after two days of play. Affleck holds a stack of 585,300, just edging out the 536,800 belonging to fellow young gun Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad, a Full Tilt Poker pro.
One of the final eliminations of Saturday’s play at the Bellagio in Las Vegas belonged to Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi. As is typical in poker tournaments, Mizzi’s run came to an end in a race after running A-K into pocket jacks. The flop of Q-10-9 gave Mizzi a gutshot straight draw to a jack, but a king on the turn gave his opponent Broadway.
Also departing late in the day was Jennifer Tilly. She called all-in before the flop with A-Q and was up against the K-8 of spades belonging to Erik Cajelais. In a similar fate as Mizzi, Tilly’s opponent turned Broadway and Cajelais moved to 93 big blinds. He ended the day in 47th place on the Festa al Lago leaderboard at 125,300.
There were double-ups aplenty on Saturday at the Bellagio. Among those who vaulted up the leaderboard were David Singer, DoylesRoom pro Hoyt Corkins, and Michael Benvenuti. Corkins got his money in ahead with pocket aces against James St. Hilaire’s A-Q and hit a full house on the river. Despite the late double-up, he’s one of the low men on the totem pole entering Day 3, as his stack of 58,100 is the 80th largest out of 99 players remaining.
Obrestad was a force to be reckoned with on Saturday. She eliminated Marco Traniello with queens-up against jacks-up and scooped a 230,000-chip pot against Danny Schiff. In the latter hand, Schiff led out for 35,000 with the board reading Q-9-9-7-6 and Obrestad called, tabling A-Q. Schiff showed ace-high after his flush draw failed to come in and Obrestad extended her chip lead.
Poker Player Annette Obrestad
New WPT “Raw Deal” host Tony “Bond18” Dunst was eliminated after running pocket fours into pocket queens. His opponent, Ryan Young, flopped a set, but Dunst turned a set of his own to leave him drawing to one out on the river. Nevertheless, quads weren’t in the cards and Dunst was sent to the rails. Joining Dunst on the outside looking in yesterday were poker pros like Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little, Justin Young, Steve Sung, and Howard Lederer, who registered at the last minute.
Check out the stacked top 10 of the WPT Festa al Lago after two days of play:
1. Matt “mcmatto” Affleck – 585,300
2. Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad – 536,800
3. Owen “ocrowe” Crowe – 360,000
4. Trevor Pope – 286,700
5. Michael Benvenuti – 284,500
6. David Williams – 278,300
7. John Monnette – 271,400
8. Jeff Madsen – 269,200
9. Men “The Master” Nguyen – 263,500
10. Andreas Hoivold – 254,200
Other players remaining in the top 50 include:
17. Daniel Alaei -217,700
18. Barry Greenstein – 217,600
24. Vanessa Selbst – 203,500
25. Steve Zolotow – 201,900
28. Tom Marchese – 184,200
35. Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer – 157,100
38. Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar – 145,800
43. Nancy Todd Tyner – 134,000
47. Erik Cajelais – 125,300
After 335 players coughed up $10,000 each to enter, the top prize at the Festa al Lago is $831,000. The top 50 players will walk away with cash and every member of the six-handed televised final table will bank at least $112,000. Last year, 275 players took to the felts at a buy-in of $15,000, meaning that attendance jumped by 22% in 2010. However, the prize pool also dove by 16% to $3.3 million by virtue of the smaller price tag.