WSOP Diary: Maria Mayrinck, something in the water |
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Team PokerStars Pro Mayrinck has been his biggest supporter - despite having to miss that Lowball final table as she was playing the LAPT event in Peru - and now it's her turn to put on a show. She finished well in the $2,500 No Limit six-handed event last night, bagging up 77,200 and nicely positioned towards the top of the 156 survivors from an impressive 1,245 entries.
It seems there really is something in the water. It's called good Karma. You see, Mayrinck is on an environmental mission here at the WSOP to conserve plastic. Thousands and thousands of plastic water bottles are used then dumped each day by players and she wants to cut that down. "I really want to make players more aware in helping the environment and use less plastic water bottles during the Series," she said. "I've been Tweeting about it and said that I will be giving out bottles to people who ask me for one so they can fill up and take to/from home to the Rio with water so not waste so much plastic. This is something that is very important to me." It's a worthy cause and one we support. Let's hope the water Karma continues through today's day two of the tournament. They're 30 short of the money right now. Still in, and doing super well is Team PokerStars Pro Florian Langmann on 111,500, and Daniel Negreanu (53,000) who, as usual, attracted a big rail to his table. Johannes Steindl (30,600) avoided trouble as well.
This event drew a huge list of Team Pros. As well as the three above, all the following were unable to make progress: ElkY, Barry Greenstein, Hevad Khan, Andre Akkari, Vanessa Rousso, Lex Veldhuis, Alex Kravchenko, Jason Mercier, Gavin Griffin, Humberto Brenes and Bill Chen. Veldhuis was a little unlucky, getting his money in with pocket kings against Jeremy Ausmus' ace-king - with an ace falling on the river. Brenes was all in with [9h][9d] and up against Ben Maerefat's [ah][qh], and the board ran [6d][7s][3s][qc][7c] to send The Shark home.
Meanwhile, in the first day of the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better, Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske bagged up 22,800, one of 208 from 644 starters to get through. Unfortunately for PokerStars, George Lind, Greg Raymer, JP Kelly, Chad Brown Finaly, respect to Sammy Farha who took down the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better event for $488,237 after a marathon final table that only wrapped up at around 7am this morning. Congratulations, too, to Brit James Dempsey who got $301,790 for second place, just short of winning his second WSOP bracelet within weeks. * * * * Tweets of the Day @DocPoker (Michael Keiner): Busted in Level 6 with 3 terrible beats in a row. Good news: now i can play the PLO tomorrow. @Maridu (Maria Mayrinck): Table change & none other then phil ivey to my left, srsly? @aakkari (Andre Akkari): Who limp call with AK in the 6 handed Wsop tournament should be banned of the Wsop forever! * * * * Thought of the Day * * * * Previous WSOP Diary entries Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
