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If
a man had talked like this, he would have
been thrown out. From a tiny little woman,
it was funny.
There
were 366 entrants in the $1,500 Limit
Hold'em for a total prize pool of $516,060.
Three tables were paid, a total of 27
players.
To setup the Final Table Tuesday night,
Paul Ladanyi's pocket 8's held up against
Philong Nguyen's all-in A 10. The 'blue'
show was about to begin.
THE
FINAL TABLE:
42 mins left of 75
The blinds were $1,000/$2,000
Player
Hometown Chip
Count
Seat
1 Patty Gallagher San Diego CA $54,500
Seat 2 Cy Jassanowsky Johannesburg, So.
Africa $35,000
Seat 3 Paul Ladanyi Budapest, Hungary
$92,500
Seat 4 Jesse Daniel Ventura CA $76,000
Seat 5 Meng La Torrance CA $84,000
Seat 6 Steve Kaufman Cincinnati OH $76,000
Seat 7 An Tran Las Vegas NV $24,500
Seat 8 Gary Jones London, UK $77,000
Seat 9 Diego Cordovez Palo Alto CA $20,000
Seat 10 Daniel Barnett Edmonds WA $15,500
Every year, at the WSOP, new players emerge
from obscurity to become household names.
A player with the potential to become
a certified character that we will watch
for years is Patty "Machine Gun' Gallagher.
She can play. And she IS a character.
Oh, and she is also by her own insistence
a foul-mouthed b***h. "I've got the biggest
b***s in the place. I'm Patty G." She
likes to say at the top of her voice.
It's like Mae West was channeling through
a petite Filipino-American woman who loves
to laugh and who especially loves to taunt
men. She breaks the unwritten rule of
poker etiquette by talking to her opponents
when they are trying to decide to call
her bets. "Why are you talking to me when
I have a hand," Meng La finally said to
her. He said she gave him a "headache"
and he asked her to quit speaking to him
altogether. Patty proved over the course
of the day that she could bet the river
with absolutely nothing. "Don't flirt
with me," she said to Steve Kaufman as
he stared at her looking for a bluff tell.
She is a piece of work, there can be no
doubt.
As
Daniel Barnett found out to his chagrin
in 10th, Patty actually picked up a real
hand once in a while. Daniel was the shortest
stack and he went all-in from the button
with A 6. Patty was on an early rush that
took her to the chip lead. 'Machine Gun'
Gallagher had pocket Aces in the small
blind.
'The
Boss,' An Tran was the next to be gunned
down by Gallagher. Tran reraised Patty
from the button with pocket 3's. She'd
raised with the K Q of Spades under the
gun. It's likely that in the thirty plus
cashes Tran has had at the WSOP, he's
never crossed anyone like Patty Gallagher.
She wasn't missing any hands at the time
and made K's and Q's.
The
next short stack that had to gamble was
Diego Cordovez. Meng La raised from middle
position with A 3. Cordovez went all-in
from the big blind with K 6. One 3 was
enough, but Meng got two to give the talented
Diego 8th.
'Johannesburg'
was in the 1 post at the recent Kentucky
Derby and lost to 'War Emblem' by several
lengths. Cy Jassanowsky, from Johannesburg,
was in the 2 post at this Final Table
and lost to Meng La in a photo finish.
Cy had a K 9. When a King flopped, he
reraised Meng La's raise all-in. La had
K 10 and the 10 played. Cy couldn't anymore.
Intensity, thy name is Paul Ladanyi. One
notch east of Phil Hellmuth is a hungry
Paul Ladanyi. His desire to win burns
right on the surface of his face. When
he gets a beat, he's capable of throwing,
kicking or screaming things. Passed early
by the red-hot Patty Gallagher for the
chip lead, Ladanyi had plenty to be upset
about when his stack was decimated. He
lost most of the remainder of his chips
when Meng La made a higher flush on Paul
with a fourth Spade on the river. Paul
was there on the turn. Still fuming, Landanyi
finished a disastrous 6th when he and
Patty got into a raising duel. After five
bets they were obliged to quit to see
the flop. To no one's surprise, except
maybe Ladanyi's, Gallagher had pocket
Aces that held up against Paul's pocket
10's.
Just
like Diego Cordovez, Gary Jones was forced
to move in search of some chips. When
the flop came A K 7, Jones went all-in
from the big blind with his King. Unfortunately
for Gary, England is ruled by a Queen
not a King. Steve Kaufman had Pokerland's
ruler, an Ace, to bid the young Englishman
'Tally-ho' in 5th.
All the males at this table were being
baited by Patty Gallagher. Jesse Daniel
from Ventura (or is it Jesse Ventura from
Daniel?) got it the worst. He couldn't
figure out what she had, and every time
he guessed he seemed to be wrong. Often
he just folded in confusion. Too short
now to guess, Jesse went all-in with that
proven failure, K x. Actually Jesse's
hand wasn't that bad-K 6 of Hearts. Steve
Kaufman had pocket 8's that sent Ventura
back to Minnesota (or was it Daniel back
to California?).
Three-handed
now, Patty had half the chips on the table.
She was cooking with gas at the time.
But her tournament inexperience was about
to show. Steve Kaufman tried to get a
deal going that would have given Patty
over $100k. She didn't know deals and
didn't trust men bringing them. It was
to cost her over $50,000. Suddenly, the
'Machine Gun' had run out of bullets.
The tournament veterans, Kaufman and La
worked her over pretty good. She will
learn from this experience and is a likely
candidate to return to a Final Table soon.
Especially in her dominant game, Limit
Hold'em. That boisterous voice was finally
struck dumb by the river card Meng La
caught to wipe Patty out in 3rd. Patty
had top pair when Meng made a gutshot
King high straight on the river with his
K 9.
Steve
Kaufman is a backer of tournament players
so he had a large crowd of interested
rooters. If Steve wins $190k, we'll get
some additional buy-ins, they probably
thought. Meng "The Ninja" La agreed to
a partial save when the chips were even
then he ripped Kaufman apart. Meng, who
had been so infuriated by Patty Gallagher,
hung on to take the lion's share of the
prize pool. It's the second big win for
La this season and vaults him into an
elite circle of players. Professor Kaufman
tried a straight draw all-in against the
made three Queens of Meng and was schooled.
As
expected the Super Satellites are heating
up. Unless there are a very high percentage
of repeaters, probably over 200 players
will get into the 'Big One' via the Supers
by next Monday. As of this writing there
are 146 entrants. Early on, rebuys run
about one to a player. As we near the
last Supers, however, the rebuys go up
to about one and a half per player. That's
where all the extra seats are generated.
Some
of the recent winners were: Alexander
Dietrich, Serafim Zaharopaulos, Peter
Roche, Dan Alspach, Barry Shulman (2nd),
Keith Davis, Gus Echeverri, Tony Cousineau
(3rd), Randy Hudson (2nd), Eric Holum,
Artie Cobb, Pascal Perrault, Kevin Maurer,
Mike McGee, Tom Savitsky, Matt Heintschel
(2nd).
Mike Paulle
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