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WPT World Championship – Day 5 report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2010-04-24 20:15
Day 5 of the WPT’s World Championship event saw 18 players return to the green felt, all hoping to become one of the 10 who would survive to do battle at the televised final table of the
poker tournament. It didn’t even take the protagonists 2 full levels to work down to that goal. John O’Shea had the most chips when the dust settled, starting out with the best chances on day 6.
Chip leaders are usually guilty for several eliminations, as all-ins are what it takes to take down huge chunks of chips in a relatively short time. That wasn’t O’Shea’s case though. He didn’t eliminate a single opponent on his way to the top spot, but he did take down a few massive pots nonetheless. One such pot was the one he took off
BodogPoker's David Williams. Both players made a straight in that hand, but unfortunately for him, William’s was lower than O’Shea’s 7-high. This pot represented a nice addition to O’Shea’s stack, and it set him on his way towards building a 3,174,000 stack by the end of the day.
Scotty Nguyen did pretty well too chips-wise in the poker tournament. He started the day 9th in chips, but he made some pretty good moves and ended up in second when the action was called. David Williams was the one who contributed to Nguyen’s rise too, by dropping a bunch of his chips to him. The Prince of Poker got lucky and hit a set of 9s on the flop to defeat William’s pocket 10s for the win.
Nguyen eventually ended the day with 2,637,000 chips.
The field that will belly up to the tables on Day 6 will be a truly illustrious one. Despite all the chips he’d dispensed to Nguyen and O’Shea, Williams remained in the top, finishing up with a stack of 2.45 million. David Benyamine is in third place and Eric Baldwin in 6th.
Ultimate Bet's Phil Hellmuth made the final 10 too, but he’s the shortest stack, with only 839k chips.
Faraz Jaka, the start of the day chip leader, didn’t have a good day. He kept losing pots, most of them to Billy Baxter, but he did eliminate Josh Arieh and Robert Cooper to regain some momentum. Eventually, he was ousted in 14th place by David Williams, whose K,Qo cracked his pocket rockets.
