Hour Three Recap
Jul 06, '07
Players are busting out of today's day one heat at an alarming rate. Tables are breaking at a consistent pace and players with racks of chips are shuffling around the Amazon room on a quest to find their new tables. Thomas Wahlroos was literally moved from one end of the Amazon room to the other, only to find Liz Lieu seated to his right at his new table. The Amazon room is returning to a more familiar layout with about 115 tables left in the tournament and cash games and satellites emerging to add to the chaos.
The table adjacent to Wahlroos is home to Jeff Madsen who has been hovering just above $15,000 for much of the level. As mentioned earlier, Madsen is wearing what can only be called a ridiculous jester's outfit courtesy of Joe Sebok. Madsen looks like someone just kicked his dog and is constantly fidgeting with the jester costume that keeps covering his eyes and impeding his vision. Madsen looked up long enough to take a nice pot and build his stack to $24,000 courtesy of two unknown players at his table. With the board showing 10
10
7
3
Madsen bet out $1,500. The player in seat one called and so did the player in seat seven. The river was the 5
and this time Madsen led out with a $4,000 bet. The player in seat one took no time in folding and the player in seat seven called. Madsen showed the 10
and the player in seat seven folded.
Notable eliminations in the last hour include Marco Traniello, Shane Schleger, and Steve Billirakis. Schleger was eliminated by Richard "Quiet Lion" Brodie. Brodie made a preflop raise with pocket jacks and Schleger came back over the top all in for $10,000 more with A-K. Brodie made the and Schleger's hand didn't improve.
Andy Black and Vince Van Patten are jabbering away about poker TV and Mike Sexton. Black commented to a player at the table behind him that 'I though they were making people have IQ tests to get into the tournament this year.' after some inane boasting by on of this tablemates. Black has $23,000 in chips.
Former soccer stars Teddy Sheringham and Tony Cascarino are playing a steady game. They have $20,500 in chips each.
Other Euro chip counts include Marty Smyth on $14,050 in chips, Des Wilson on $23,200, Dave Colclough on $16,300, Chris Bjorin on $12,850, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott on $10,550, Julian Gardiner on $43,600 and Roy 'The Boy' Brindley on $16,000.
Brindley had an unhappy start to the day after arriving late and getting tangled in a losing pot on his first hand. He's since recouped some chips saying, 'Instead of being happy to walk out after two hours, I fancy i can sit here all day now. ' Read Roy's
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The unofficial current chip leader is Nestor Martinez with $94,000. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf and Barry Greenstein are both in the top ten in chips with $50,000 and $48,000 respectively.
| Mike Sexton |
31500 |
| Michael Mizrachi |
31200 |
| Billy Baxter |
29000 |
| Steve Paul-Ambrose |
27600 |
| Huck Seed |
27500 |
| Alex Jacob |
25500 |
| Tony Cousineau |
24000 |
| Tobey Maguire |
23000 |
| Perry Friedman |
22000 |
| Joe Awada |
20000 |
| John D'Agostino |
20000 |
| Mickey Appleman |
20000 |
| Thomas Wahlroos |
20000 |
| Joe Beevers |
19000 |
| Tony Ma |
19000 |
| Jeff Madsen |
17500 |
| Debbie Burkhead |
17000 |
| Liz Lieu |
17000 |
| Minh Ly |
16500 |
| Dewey Tomko |
15000 |
| Janet Jones |
13500 |
| Johnny Chan |
13000 |
| Joe Tehan |
12000 |
| Josh Arieh |
12000 |
| David Grey |
11600 |
| Frankie O'Dell |
11350 |
| Ray Romano` |
11000 |
| Kenny Tran |
7000 |
| Marcel Luske |
4200 |
Player Tags: Barry Greenstein, Richard Brodie, Marco Traniello, Dustin Woolf, Steve Billirakis, Shane Schleger, Liz Lieu, Joe Sebok, Thomas Wahlroos, Nestor Martinez, Jeff Madsen
