Live Tournament Updates
Feature Table Has 4 WPT Winners
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
After some table breaks, Table 15 has developed into a murders row of World Poker Tour Champions. Seat 2: Mike "SirWatts" Watson This native Canadian and online specialist just took home $1.6 million after winning the Bellagio Cup in July. Seat 3: Gavin Smith Another Canadian from just outside of Niagara Falls has a WPT title and a WPT Player of the year title under his belt. Seat 7: J.C. Tran Possibly one of the most consistent tournament players over the past few years. Coming so close to multiple titles, JC has bubbled the TV Final table three times and made five others, eventually taking down his Championship at the World Poker Challenge in Reno. That victory helped J.C. earn the WPT Player of the Year title in Season Five Seat 9: Barry Greenstein Bobby's Room regular Barry Greenstein has two WPT titles. Already one of poker's living legends, Barry is one of the true ambassadors of the game with consistent success in multiple arenas and charitable donations from his tournament victories.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship11:39 AM, 10/13/08
Scott Wilson Up To 100,000
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
With the final board showing A
7
5Q
2, Scott Wilson checks, and his opponent moves all in for about 23,000. Wilson thinks for about a minute before he calls with 75 for two pair, sevens and fives. His opponent shakes his head and shows Q10 (pair of queens) before tossing it into the muck.
Scott Wilson wins the pot, building his stack to about 100,000.
11:27 AM, 10/13/08
Mike "Timex" McDonald Folds to All In Bet
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
On a board of 956 Mike McDonald bets 4,500 from the big blind into his opponent. He is quickly called.
The turn is the A. McDonald fires another bullet of 11,500 and the other player moves all in. He has McDonald covered.
McDonald folds and is left with 77,800.
11:23 AM, 10/13/08
Sixty Second Spotlight: Shawn Buchanan
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Shawn Buchanan is on the verge of becoming the latest WPT Poker-Made Millionaire hailing from Canada -- he is just less than 31,000 away from that magic mark. The protégé of former hockey player and fellow Canadian Greg "FBT" Mueller, it could be argued that the student has surpassed the teacher at this point in Buchanan’s career. Buchanan has 23 recorded cashes over his four year poker career, including eight WSOP cashes, one WSOP final table and a WPT Title as the winner of the 2007 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship. At Mandalay Bay he beat out an incredibly tough line-up. Results of the final 13 players can be found below to see just how tough Buchanan had to fight to win that event: 1st - Shawn Buchanan 2nd - Jared Hamby 3rd - David Levi 4th - Thayer Rasmussen 5th - David Haddad 6th - Danny Wong 7th - Barry Greenstein 8th - Juan Carlos "J.C." Alvarado 9th - Ryan Daut 10th - Chau Giang 11th - Chris Bell 12th - John Juanda 13th - Alexander Kravchenko
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship11:15 AM, 10/13/08
Shawn Buchanan Hits His Set
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
After a series of raises, Shawn Buchanan calls the 13,700 all in re-raise of the big blind. The big blind shows Q
Q while Buchanan shows 55 from the button.
The board comes J3257 to give Buchanan a set of fives and the 52,000 pot. He is now up to 90,000.
11:03 AM, 10/13/08
Table 27 Has Disbanded
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
The field lost 45 players during the first level, and our featured table (Table 27) with Daniel Negreanu and Steven Van Zadelhoff has already disbanded. Play will continue today for five levels or until the field reaches 99 players, whichever comes first. Our estimate is that it will take a little more than five levels to reach that number.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:57 AM, 10/13/08
Level 7 Begins
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
The players return from break to begin Level 7, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a 200 ante. There are 230 players remaining, with the average chip count just a little less than 60,000.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:55 AM, 10/13/08
15-Minute Break
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Level 6 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:40 AM, 10/13/08
Seif Kings Cracked; Eliminated from the Tournament
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
A short-stacked Mark Seif is all in preflop against Daniel Snajdman.
Seif shows KK while Snajdman shows AQ.
The board comes KJ8107 to give Snajdman a straight and the pot. Seif is eliminated in yet another painful fashion. (Seif had his aces cracked at the WPT Borgata Open final table last month.)
10:32 AM, 10/13/08
Erik Cajelais Continues Aggression From Yesterday
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
A player from the cut off raises to 2,200 and the small blind makes a re-raise of 6,200. Erik Cajelais sits in the big blind and makes yet another re-raise to 18,200. His two opponents fold. Yesterday we saw Erik call a 17,200 all in re-raise with King-ten and make a huge push with pocket sevens.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:24 AM, 10/13/08
