UB.com’s Phil Hellmuth earned his second cash of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) this week, but his bid for a 12th bracelet fell short in the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event (#17). Hellmuth, in typical fashion, Tweeted throughout the tournament about big laydowns and greats reads he made, but ultimately fell short: “Out 50th in NL Hold’em, was an ugly ugly run of cards… Too bad I played the cards, shoulda played my opponents more and made it happen.”
After busting early from the Pot Limit Omaha event on Thursday, Hellmuth took some down time to have a few drinks and play a round of golf with Roy Winston. Tweeted Hellmuth, “At ‘Deuce’ at Aria drinking with President of Aria Bill McBeth and Liquid girls (just talking honey), now off to ‘Haze’ to dance!” Unfortunately, no video of said dancing has surfaced.
Joe Sebok took his 1.1 million Twitter followers through a tiresome day of Limit Hold’em on Friday. The tournament got underway at 5:00pm PT and Sebok found a familiar face at his table when he arrived: “Sitting down in #wsop23. @PhilIvey is here and I’ve already made two racist jokes at his expense. 7500 starting stack.” He took another playful shot at Ivey a few hours later: “Had @PhilIvey ‘s ass all-in twice, but he sucked out both times. Bad players always get it in bad… ;)”
Sebok, who made a WSOP Limit Hold’em final table in 2005, gradually built his stack during the day, but met the harsh side of variance late in the evening. “Limit is a wicked game,” he Tweeted. “Up to 30k, but lost 4 straight pots where had my opponent dominated. Oh well. Still alive w/a paltry 4300.” Sebok has the second shortest stack entering Day 2 of Event #23, but maintained his upbeat approach to the game: “Putting in serious hours at WSOP w/not much to show for it, but really enjoying playing poker again, so that’s something. :)”
Also getting underway Friday was the Ladies Event and, after the dozen or so men were finally eliminated from the tournament, it was all business for the women still standing as the money bubble approached late in the evening. Several of the top women in the game made deep runs, including UB’s Tiffany Michelle, who spent much of the day playing alongside some of her friends: “My table has replaced poker hottie @vanessarousso with poker hottie @saraunderwood. Apparently, it was too much hotness for one table.”
Michelle lasted nine levels, but was sent to the rail in the final hour of the night after working with a short stack following the dinner break. Tweeted Michelle, “Now I remember why I don’t mind busting the 1st level of a tourney… cuz it sucks that much more busting @ the very end of playing all day!” Meanwhile, fellow UB.com pro Liv Boeree enters Day 2 with 57,000 in chips, placing her seventh out of the 138 women remaining.
Speaking of the Ladies Event, the UB.com Tweet of the Week goes to Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin, who decided on a different mode of transport to the Rio Friday: “Scared to park at WSOP today. Too many women drivers. Took a cab.”