Just 88 left and 72 make the money.
Seat draw:
364 1 Benjamin Maerefat 40,800
364 2 Mika Paasonen 36,600
364 3 Cyriel Dohmen 41,600
364 4 David Liu 9,100
364 5 Dennis Jeffrey 69,800
364 6 David Mercer 33,700
364 7 Mikhail Lakhitov 22,000
364 8 Joe Sebok 20,000
364 9 Kurt Maier 42,700
MikaPaasonen was already up to 56k when i first went to his table.
He busted a shortie with QJ vs A3, hitting a J on the river.
He then won another nice pot, opening K2s from the BU, SB calls.
Flop K 7 3 rainbow. check check
Turn T, villain bets 2,800, Mika calls
River 9, villain check calls Milka's 4.9k bet.
Just 87 left now with blinds at 600/1.2k
MikaPaasonen
Originally posted by elhh82
Right on the money bubble and MikaPaasonen is sitting comfortably with 74k chips.Blinds are 800/1,600
Missed posting this update here, from 1 hour ago
Money bubble burst and MikaPaasonen is now still at 75k chips, average is 52.2k
blinds are now going up to 1k/2k now with 65 players left.
MikaPaasonen just lost a big pot, and has about 50k now, average 66k.
Blinds going up to 1.2k/2.5k, 52 left.
"I pulled the trigger and shot my own leg"
Mika opens 64s
Flop 9 6 5, Mika check raises pot, for 28k, villain goes all in for 47k and Mika has to call for odds. Villain shows JJ
Turn 3, gives Mika tons of draws, straight, flush, two pair, set etc.
River bricks 8, and Mika loses that over 100k pot
Petersen Crippled
Posted 1 minute ago by DBarille • Level 15
Mika Passonen raised from the cut off to 9,500. Mickey Petersen re raised from the small blind to 23,000. Passonen then moved all in and Petersen called.
Petersen: {k-Clubs}{k-Spades}
Passonen: {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}
The board ran out {a-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}.
Peteresen is now down to 13,000.
Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-15-pot-limit-hold-em/
Chip leader baby!
MikaPaasonen doubles up twice and is now the chip leader.
He has almost 400k chips now.
First double up was a big suckout.
Mika raised, villain 3-bets, Mika goes all in for 100k or about 25bb, villain calls.
88 vs KK
Flop comes A J T 9 8 and Mika rivers a set.
Not long later, he was in the BB. SB raised, Mika re-raised, SB goes all in for almost 140k and Mika calls. TT vs AQ, blank low flop and Mika takes the chip lead.
"I'm running so good!"
Mika sensd his regards to the Finnish community
Chip leader baby!
MikaPaasonen doubles up twice and is now the chip leader.
He has almost 400k chips now.
First double up was a big suckout.
Mika raised, villain 3-bets, Mika goes all in for 100k or about 25bb, villain calls.
88 vs KK
Flop comes A J T 9 8 and Mika rivers a set.
Not long later, he was in the BB. SB raised, Mika re-raised, SB goes all in for almost 140k and Mika calls. TT vs AQ, blank low flop and Mika takes the chip lead.
"I'm running so good!"
Mika sends his regards to the Finnish community
Looks like Mika is still chipleader here. He has about 350k now. 20 left
Blinds 3k/6k
Only 12 players left now, 2 away from the final table. blinds are now 5k/10k
Mika Paasonen hasn't been able to pick up many pots and now has a below average stack of 229k.
The biggest hand he played in the last couple of hours against two other shorties.
Preflop all in 99 vs TT vs 66 and the board bricked and the player with TT tripled up
Mika has made it to the final table!
He is however a shortie with just 187k chips.
Blinds are 6k/12k now.
Many on the table are also short. Chip counts later.
Second final table on the same day for Team PokerStrategy.com!
The final 10:
Dajuan Whorley
Daisuke Endo
Ted Lawson
Allen Kessler
Andrew Cohen
John Gordon
Ronald Lee
Elias Brussianos
Mika Paasonen
Brian Rast
This will also be their seating positions tomorrow.
Will update then chip counts tomorrow when the official counts are updated.
We start soon.
Live stream at: http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11454
Chip counts:
1 Dajuan Whorley USA 85,000 7 2.5%
2 Daisuke Endo Japan 174,000 14.5 5%
3 Ted Lawson USA 140,000 11.7 4.1%
4 Allen Kessler USA 618,000 51.5 17.9
5 Andrew Cohen USA 190,000 16 5.5%
6 John Gordon USA 380,000 32 11%
7 Ronald Lee USA 198,000 16.5 5.7%
8 Ali Eslami USA 402,000 33.5 11.6%
9 Mika Paasonen Finland 187,000 16 5.4%
10 Brian Rast USA 1,081,000 90 31.3%
Originally posted by vonki
but what are the blindlevels?
Blinds 8k/16k now.
Do check wsop.com/PokerNews for live updates.
I guess I shouldn't cover the stuff they can provide you, and you have the livestream for the fastest info anyway.
If you have any questions about hands for Mika/Nazgul who is railing. Post them here and I will try to ask them for you.
