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Monday, July 7, 2008
Canadian
The Canadian debut episode of the upcoming season features high-stakes, no-limit cash game play as opposed to the side pot rules in Canada, wherein most of the weekly challenges offered a $120,000, winner-take-all prize to a single player. And there were lesser known pros, semi-pros, and amateurs who etched their names in the history books with bracelets at the 2008 WSOP which included... Grant Hinkle, Michael Banducci, Thang Luu, Matt Keikoan, Anthony Rivera, Rep Porter, Farzad Rouhani, Phil Tom, Jimmy Schultz, Duncan Bell, Eric Brooks, Svetlana Gromenkova, Andrew Brown, Jason Young, Scott Seiver, Jens Voertmann, Blair Hinkle, Vitaly Lunkin, Luis Velador, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Mike Rocco, Jesper Hougaard, David Kitai, David Woo, Frank Gary, Dan Lacourse, Martin Klaser, Max Greenwood, Joe Commisso, Ryan Hughes, Alexandre Gomes, Marty Smyth, James Schaaf, David Daneshgar and Matt Graham. Moments later, Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke made the same move with the same result. In the final hand of stud hi/lo, Schaaf raised on third street with the (6-Hearts) in the door. Andrey Zaichenko started as one of the short stacks, but doubled up early through Corwin Cole, when they went heads up, Zaichenko's K-J against Cole's A-10. Jeff Courtney was on a downward slide from the start, giving most of his chips to Farzad Rouhani.
The debut week's new cash-game format has the players starting with blinds of $200/400, with, according to the show's press statements, plenty of straddles and prop bets. The coverage will be aired globally. Luca Pagano was railed when his flopped bottom set went down to Wayne Brown's flopped top set. All of John Kranyak's chips went in on a capped turn with a board of 9-4-3-A. Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, Kathy Liebert, Erik Seidel, Robert Mizrachi, Andy Black, Dewey Tomko, Humberto Brenes, and Bill Edler also chose this flight to play. Jean-Robert Bellande had taken the early lead on this final table within the first minutes of play and had maintained it throughout.
Two more queens fell on the board to add insult to Sebok's injury. Dwan and Hellmuth have a (very brief) bit of poker in Canada history on NBC, since the two squared off in Round 1 of the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker in Canada Championship. It used to be said that the worst day of the year for any poker player was the day he or she was eliminated from the WSOP Championship Event.
At the start of the day, Matt Graham had already secured his third money finish of this year's WSOP. By the end of it, he would come from behind in one of the most dramatic and aggressive limit final tables of the WSOP to take the bracelet. And so it began. Bellande extended his lead when his A-4 was good for two pair on a board of A-3-4-9-8. Sam Grizzle also failed to survive Day 1B when his flush draw failed to fill. While the celebrity factor was a little light, actors Ray Ramono, Jason Alexander, and Mekhi Phifer were all Day 1A players.
