stevesbets gets 3rd in AC for $132K

Posted by Nat

February 19, 2006

On Friday morning, I went down to AC to watch my friend Steve Jacobs (stevesbets online) play the final table of the Harrah’s AC WSOP Circuit 10K event. Eric Haber (sheets) picked up Ozzy on his way down to AC so Ozzy could watch the final table and then come back to Philly with me for the weekend.

Here are the chip counts at the start of the final table:

Name - Chip Count
Brian Jensen - 191,500
Herbert Cheng - 168,000
Abraham Korotki - 160,500
Steven Jacobs - 149,500
Ed Corrado - 147,500
Jody Garaventa - 137,500
Harry White - 109,000
Jianhua Zhou - 108,500
Ernie Shepherd - 68,000

Also, here are the payouts:

1. $433,008
2. $240,560
3. $132,308
4. $96,224
5. $84,196
6. $72,168
7. 60,140
8. 48,112
9. 36,084

Anyway, play got underway around 2:30 PM on Friday afternoon. The blinds were at 3K/6K 500A for a few minutes before moving to 4K/8K/1K. The levels were 2 hours long with the progression being 3/6/.5, 4/8/1, 5/10/1, 6/12/1, etc, so it was a great structure.

Steve never played that many pots, although he did manage to pull out a big win here:

“Friday, 17th of February 2006 05:44 PM

Brian calls the blind, Steven raises to 40K. In the small blind, Eddie has to add 35K to call, but doesnt. Herbert in the big blind does call. Back to Brian, he calls. Huge skillet brewin’. Threeway action. A K Q rainbow on the flop. Checked. The turn is the Tc. Checked around to Steven, he takes the opportunity to bet 25K and Herbert calls. Brian does not. The river brings the Th. Herbert is first to act and he checks. Steven now moves all in for 66K. Herbert is in the hot seat. He sends his cards to the muck. Steven Jacobs picks up the biggest pot of the day so far.” -PokerPages.com

I know what Steve had, but I won’t reveal it here because he might not want people to know. If you want to read all the hand descriptions, Sharla’s final table blog is pretty good.

I took a lot of pictures, so here are twenty of the best. There are a lot of repetitive pictures, but this post is just as much for Steve’s friends and family who might want to see a lot of pictures from the event. Here we go, in order of when I took the pic…

Deep (Steve’s roommate), Bree (Steve’s girlfriend), Steve and Eric Haber (sheets). Steve is filling out his WSOP profile sheet.

The final table getting ready to start

Ozzy was almost immediately kicked out of the tournament room, so he had to wait outside during portions of the final table and just try to hear what was going on inside