*Note: all of this information can also be found in my earlier post Ladies Update: Day 5. I bumped it up so our readers can more easily find the updated information without scrolling all the way to the bottom of the front page**
UPDATES:
9:28 PM - Sabyl Cohen just ended a brilliant run in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, busting in 56th place. When I came back into the tournament room after dinner break, I didn't see her and I feared for the worst, but she had just been moved to the TV featured table. Never losing her cool, Sabyl was the shortest stack in the tournament when she got moved, and ended up pushing in with the Kd-8s. Eric Frieberg called her with the Jd-Th. The board came As-Th-Qh-4d-8c, sending her home with $123,699.
Sabyl was both gracious and dignified in defeat, shaking hands with the entire table and embracing her boyfriend, who had been sweating her from the stands.
"I got in with the best of it. But it was the hand with the tens that really killed me" she said, as she was escorted to the payout line to receive her winnings.
The last woman standing in the WSOP, Sabyl outlasted 8718 players, or 99.4% of the field. Though I'm sure she's disappointed right now, she has a helluva lot to be proud of.
8:52 PM - Only 15 minutes after returning from dinner break, Sabyl saw her stack cut in half on a killer of a hand. On a 9s-6s-4c flop, Sabyl's opponent Raphael Doromal bet 300,000 and she reraised all-in, having him covered. Doromal called and showed the 4s-5s to Cohen's Ts-Td. Sabyl was slightly ahead on this flop-- about 53% to win. The 5c on the turn gave Doromal the lead and the 7h was of no help to Cohen. She's got about 500K left.
With 62 players remaining, we're into six figure payouts.
6:52 PM - We're now on dinner break with 65 players remaining in the field. 11 more and we all go home for the night. Sabyl is still going strong with 1,020,000 in chips.
6:05 PM - With the elimination of our 73rd place finisher, the players just earned another money jump and all are guaranteed at least $90,713. The next money jump will be into a six figure payday of $123,699 once we hit 63 players.
This is unconfirmed, but the buzz on the floor is that play will go for five levels tonight or down to 54 players, whatever comes first.
5:57 PM - Sabyl has 1.3 million and has been quiet in the last half hour of action. I joined 2006 double-bracelet winner Bill Chen on the rail behind her table. Chen and Sabyl are both from the Bay Area and became friends through BARGE.
Chen was telling a spectator that the new black chips with yellow flecks that have been added to players' stacks are worth 10,000. He paused and remarked with a laugh, "Each one of those black chips represents one person's whole buyin and now they're throwing them around the table!"
"One donkey for each black chip, right?" I remarked.
"Exactly!!" he replied, chucking. "I bet three donkeys. Well I raise you six!"
5:31 PM - Sabyl Cohen moved in on her opponent with the Ks-Js on a Kc-2h-9s-Kd board and her opponent called with Q-Q. The 5h didn't help him and Sabyl doubled up. She had about 600K before the hand began and though they're still counting the chips as I write this, she looks to be up to around 1.4 million.
4:24 PM - Sabyl has 994K. 83 players remain on 10 tables. The average stack is 1.05 million.
4:07 PM - Some of my European colleagues in the media room just reported that Duke is having "a bit of a cry" in the Ultimate Bet suite next door. Dude, if it were me I'd be having a bit of a cry, a bit of a valium, and a whole lot of vodka before calling my weed dealer and ordering up an ounce of Super Skunk.
4:02 PM - You wouldn't know it since the "official" media outlets aren't giving it a lick of coverage, but there's another $1500 bracelet event underway today. I saw 10 women seated at it's 13 tables including Barbara Enright, Michele Lewis, Jennifer Tilly, Vanessa Rousso and Shannon Elizabeth. Barry Greenstein and 2002 Main Event champion Robert Varkonyi are also still in action.
3:55 PM - Finally, details on the hand. Annie moved in preflop with A-3 offsuit and Jeffrey Lisandro called with 8-8. The 9d- 9s-3h flop gave her a small ray of hope and six outs to win, but the 2c and the 4c on the turn and river didn't bring her the help she needed.
3:42 PM - Twelve minutes after Duke's bustout, CardPlayer has yet to record it. They have, however noted the addition of 25K chips into play because that news is so much more important.
Duke's 88th place finish of 8773 entrants is her best finish in the Main Event to date when it comes to the percentage of the field she outlasted. Coming in 88th this year, Duke beat out 99% of the field. In 1994 she finished 26/268 (top 9.7%), in 2000 she came in 10th out of 512 (top 2%), and in 2003 she was 47th of 839 (top 5.6%). Money-wise, she earned $51,129, only $1000 less than she earned in 2000 when she finished one off the final table.
3:30 PM - Annie Duke just busted. Details forthcoming. Sabyl Cohen is 2006's top female finisher in the WSOP Main Event.
3:25 PM - Sabyl has 900K and Annie appears to have a little over 300K. Boyfriend and pigtail aficionado Joe Reitman is sweating her from the rail.
I also spotted WPT Champion Martin DeKnijff wearing a red press badge with some other dude's name on it so he could get a better view of some of his countrymen remaining in the Main Event, including Mikael Thuritz.
Remember this guy (right)? One of my potheads is still alive and is sitting two to Duke's left!
2:30 PM - Players are back from the first break of the day. Blinds have increased to 8000-16000 with a 2000 ante. At this level, it costs players 42K a round just to see their cards. Annie's M** is down to 6, while Sabyl's is at a comforable 23.
2:00 PM - Sabyl Cohen doubled up with A-A vs. A-K, increasing her stack to 960,000.
1:45 PM - With blinds at 6000-12000, Cheng Yu raised from under the gun to 50,000 and Annie Duke re-raised to 300,000. Yu called and they saw a flop of Ac-Jd-7d. Yu checked, Duke bet 100,000, and Yu instantly pushed all-in on her. Duke folded and Yu raked in the 700,000 pot. The hand crippled Annie, who is now on the short stack at 250K.
(**=Popularized by Dan Harrington's "Harrington on Hold'em," M is a player's means of calculating how many rounds they are able to last before being blinded off. An M above 20 is a nice stack to work with. An M below 5 means push and pray).
