Well actually, last nights show and the coming week's final table show will show what HAS to be the biggest blowups in poker history.
Most of you already know what happened, but in the show on Tuesday night (which will be replayed all week) showed how the Prince of Poker (Scotty Nguyen) quickly became a pauper in a 1 hour show. There were around 15 players left and Scotty won a few pots and was at around 17 million chips and was near the chip leader. Well he kept playing agressive and ended up going all in on the turn when he was drawing dead to trips. He went from 2nd place to 11th place in a hurry. The thing that has to piss him off somewhat is that he went all with more chips than 3 or 4 other players. But he plays to win, and this year, near the end, he played to lose. He could have coasted to the final table with those 17 million chips or even the 8 million that he had with 13 players left. He still could have won the tourney with only 8 million starting the final table, look below and see why.
Now the second HUGEEEEEEE blowup was that of Phillip Hilm. He was the one who knocked Scotty out and going into the final table, he had around 23 million chips. First of all, final table only 9 players. Keep in mind that 9th place only paid $525,000. 5th place paid over twice as much as that at $1.25 million. Now they took a day off before the final table. Typically this is so family and friends can come to the taping. Well you have to know that Helm was feeling good thinking about the possible 8 million dollars or AT LEAST a 3 million dollar payday that 3rd place would bring. Now this brings me to the biggest meltdown in history.
Phillip went into the final table as the chip leader with 22 million chips. Now a few of the other players had alot of chips as well, but he was in the position of his life. Here are the chip counts and note the time:
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:01:39 pm
Final Table Players
Seat No. 1: Raymond Rahme – $16,320,000
Seat No. 2: Alex Kravchenko – $6,570,000
Seat No. 3: Lee Childs - -$13,240,000
Seat No. 4:- Jerry Yang – $8,450,000
Seat No. 5: Lee Watkinson – $9,925,000
Seat No. 6: Tuan Lam – $21,315,000
Seat No. 7: Philip Hilm – $22,070,000
Seat No. 8: Jon Kalmar – $20,320,000
Seat No. 9: Hevad "RainKhan" Khan – $9,205
Please note how many chips that Jerry Yang started the final table with!! Here are some more updates. Check the time again because this tournament ended up taking 16 hours.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:00:07 PM
Last 10 Hands: 1-10
The first ten hands of any final table are always stressful. Players are nervous and they don't want to be the first player to bust out. Jerry Yang became the aggressor early on. He won the first two pots and five out of the first nine. On Hand #9, Jerry Yang was the first player to move all in. He pushed Lee Childs off a pot, who folded pocket Queens (and showed). Yang won the largest pot so far at the final table, worth over 11.63 million. There were not any hands that went to the river. Only one hand went as deep as the turn. The were five total flops and five of the hands were won by pre-flop raisers. Phil Hilm is still the chipleader with 23.3 million, but Jerry Yang jumped up to third place in chips. He's up to 20 million.
Now note below that Hilm actually has MORE chips than he started with:
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:02:31 PM
Updated Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 15.1 million Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 5.04 million Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 6.96 million Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 20.11 million Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 9.805 million Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 21.285 million Seat 7 - Philip Hilm - 23.27 million Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 17.9 million Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 7.945 million
Note hand #14!!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:18:48 PM
Hand #14 - Jerry Yang Takes an 11.39 Million Pot
Hand #14 - Lee Watkinson has the button in seat 5, Jerry Yang raises from the cutoff to 2.5 million, and Philip Hilm thinks for a few minutes before he calls from the big blind. The flop comes
, Hilm checks, Yang bets 3 million, and Hilm thinks for about 30 seconds before he calls. The turn card is the
, Hilm checks, Yang moves all in, and Hilm folds. Jerry Yang takes the pot worth 11.39 million, and he has become our new chipleader. Note: Once again, Yang makes a very large opening raise. But that amount is correct. The big blind was 240,000, and Yang opened the pot for 2.5 million.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:20:49 PM
Updated Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 16.31 million Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 4.92 million Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 6.72 million Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 25.04 million Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 9.325 million Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 20.805 million Seat 7 - Philip Hilm - 19.39 million Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 17.78 million Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 7.125 million
Note the time again, and that they had only played around 14 hands at the time.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:47:29 PM
Last 10 Hands: 11-20
Philip Hilm won Hands #11 and #13, but Jerry Yang took over the chiplead on Hand #14 after he won a 11.39 million pot off of Hilm. On the very next hand, Hilm busted out after he missed a flush draw. That was the first time today where two players were all in. It was also the first time in 15 hands that a hand went to the river. Yang added to his big stack and jumped out to a tremendous lead. He had almost 1/3 of the total chips in play. Hilm entered the final table as the chipleader and busted out 15 hands later. After losing Hand #14 to Yang, Hilm made an interesting call from the small blind with
after Yang raised 1 million. Hilm flopped bottom pair and a flush draw and waited until the turn to make a move. After Jerry Yang bet 4 million on the turn, Hilm shoved all in on a semi-bluff. Yang had been taking a long time to make decisions over the last few days. That instance, he called rather quickly with top pair and top kicker. Hilm did not improve his hand and he busted out of the WSOP main event on a failed semi-bluff. Hilm's overaggressiveness cost him a shot at $8.25 million. Rain Khan woke up and won consecutive hands before Yang won another one on Hand #19.
So Hilm played EXACTLY 15 hands before losing 23 million chips!! That said, I cant believe that Yang made that call, because if he loses, then he is down to not that many chips. SO Hilm was the first player out in the final table. I would estimate that by not playing aggressive that he was virtually guaranteed 3rd or 4th place. But with 2 days for everyone to give you strategy about being aggressive, he played aggressive like he usually does. He will be back at many other final tables in my opinion.
But can you imagine going from 1st place to first person out in that time period?? $500,000 is nice, but not when you just GAVE it away on a draw!
By the way, he did of course lose to the eventual winner of the tourney. His chips were put to good use at least.
Bye the way, if I am spoiling the tournament for you, then you must live in a cave in Afghanistan! If this is you, then were in the HELL is Bin Laden
Most of you already know what happened, but in the show on Tuesday night (which will be replayed all week) showed how the Prince of Poker (Scotty Nguyen) quickly became a pauper in a 1 hour show. There were around 15 players left and Scotty won a few pots and was at around 17 million chips and was near the chip leader. Well he kept playing agressive and ended up going all in on the turn when he was drawing dead to trips. He went from 2nd place to 11th place in a hurry. The thing that has to piss him off somewhat is that he went all with more chips than 3 or 4 other players. But he plays to win, and this year, near the end, he played to lose. He could have coasted to the final table with those 17 million chips or even the 8 million that he had with 13 players left. He still could have won the tourney with only 8 million starting the final table, look below and see why.
Now the second HUGEEEEEEE blowup was that of Phillip Hilm. He was the one who knocked Scotty out and going into the final table, he had around 23 million chips. First of all, final table only 9 players. Keep in mind that 9th place only paid $525,000. 5th place paid over twice as much as that at $1.25 million. Now they took a day off before the final table. Typically this is so family and friends can come to the taping. Well you have to know that Helm was feeling good thinking about the possible 8 million dollars or AT LEAST a 3 million dollar payday that 3rd place would bring. Now this brings me to the biggest meltdown in history.
Phillip went into the final table as the chip leader with 22 million chips. Now a few of the other players had alot of chips as well, but he was in the position of his life. Here are the chip counts and note the time:
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:01:39 pm
Final Table Players
Seat No. 1: Raymond Rahme – $16,320,000
Seat No. 2: Alex Kravchenko – $6,570,000
Seat No. 3: Lee Childs - -$13,240,000
Seat No. 4:- Jerry Yang – $8,450,000
Seat No. 5: Lee Watkinson – $9,925,000
Seat No. 6: Tuan Lam – $21,315,000
Seat No. 7: Philip Hilm – $22,070,000
Seat No. 8: Jon Kalmar – $20,320,000
Seat No. 9: Hevad "RainKhan" Khan – $9,205
Please note how many chips that Jerry Yang started the final table with!! Here are some more updates. Check the time again because this tournament ended up taking 16 hours.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:00:07 PM
Last 10 Hands: 1-10
The first ten hands of any final table are always stressful. Players are nervous and they don't want to be the first player to bust out. Jerry Yang became the aggressor early on. He won the first two pots and five out of the first nine. On Hand #9, Jerry Yang was the first player to move all in. He pushed Lee Childs off a pot, who folded pocket Queens (and showed). Yang won the largest pot so far at the final table, worth over 11.63 million. There were not any hands that went to the river. Only one hand went as deep as the turn. The were five total flops and five of the hands were won by pre-flop raisers. Phil Hilm is still the chipleader with 23.3 million, but Jerry Yang jumped up to third place in chips. He's up to 20 million.
Now note below that Hilm actually has MORE chips than he started with:
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:02:31 PM
Updated Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 15.1 million Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 5.04 million Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 6.96 million Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 20.11 million Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 9.805 million Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 21.285 million Seat 7 - Philip Hilm - 23.27 million Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 17.9 million Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 7.945 million
Note hand #14!!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:18:48 PM
Hand #14 - Jerry Yang Takes an 11.39 Million Pot
Hand #14 - Lee Watkinson has the button in seat 5, Jerry Yang raises from the cutoff to 2.5 million, and Philip Hilm thinks for a few minutes before he calls from the big blind. The flop comes
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:20:49 PM
Updated Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 16.31 million Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 4.92 million Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 6.72 million Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 25.04 million Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 9.325 million Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 20.805 million Seat 7 - Philip Hilm - 19.39 million Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 17.78 million Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 7.125 million
Note the time again, and that they had only played around 14 hands at the time.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:47:29 PM
Last 10 Hands: 11-20
Philip Hilm won Hands #11 and #13, but Jerry Yang took over the chiplead on Hand #14 after he won a 11.39 million pot off of Hilm. On the very next hand, Hilm busted out after he missed a flush draw. That was the first time today where two players were all in. It was also the first time in 15 hands that a hand went to the river. Yang added to his big stack and jumped out to a tremendous lead. He had almost 1/3 of the total chips in play. Hilm entered the final table as the chipleader and busted out 15 hands later. After losing Hand #14 to Yang, Hilm made an interesting call from the small blind with
So Hilm played EXACTLY 15 hands before losing 23 million chips!! That said, I cant believe that Yang made that call, because if he loses, then he is down to not that many chips. SO Hilm was the first player out in the final table. I would estimate that by not playing aggressive that he was virtually guaranteed 3rd or 4th place. But with 2 days for everyone to give you strategy about being aggressive, he played aggressive like he usually does. He will be back at many other final tables in my opinion.
But can you imagine going from 1st place to first person out in that time period?? $500,000 is nice, but not when you just GAVE it away on a draw!
By the way, he did of course lose to the eventual winner of the tourney. His chips were put to good use at least.
Bye the way, if I am spoiling the tournament for you, then you must live in a cave in Afghanistan! If this is you, then were in the HELL is Bin Laden
