Bryn Kenney – Poker Player Profile
Long Beach, New York’s Bryn Kenney, who goes by the moniker “BrynKenney” on PokerStars, is one of the final 78 players in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He turned in an impressive WSOP performance prior to his run in the Main Event, bubbling the final table of the inaugural $25,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event for $141,000. Kenney ultimately took eighth in that tournament, which saw online poker pro Dan “djk123” Kelly capture the bracelet and become a sponsored pro of DoylesRoom.
Kenney has made a living out of dominating Six-Handed events at the WSOP. In 2009, he finished eighth in a $1,500 buy-in version for $42,000. One year prior, Kenney took 35th for $16,000 in a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed tournament. Online, he bested the field of the PokerStars $200 rebuy in July 2007 for $52,000.
In January 2010 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas, Kenney was involved in an altercation with online poker pro Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza. In a $5,000 preliminary event, Garza allegedly spat on Kenney, according to a lively thread that surfaced on the popular online poker forum PocketFives.com.
Garza later clarified what happened in a post on PocketFives.com: “I gave him a [expletive] you and he smirks at me. I walked up to him and said something along the lines of ‘Don’t look at me you thieving piece of [expletive]’ and nudge him with my shoulder. At this point, security gets called.” Garza revealed that the incident was provoked by multi-accounting online.
At the same PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Kenney took 54th in the Main Event and cashed for $45,000. Three years prior, he landed in 31st in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) North American Poker Championship at the Fallsview Casino for $37,000.
Kenney was sixth in chips after Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event and 19th after Day 4. On Day 7 with 78 players remaining, he took to the felts at Table 374 alongside fellow online poker gurus Jerry “sandler1860” Payne, UB.com qualifier Christopher Bolt, and Josh “brikdog24” Brikis. He sat in 20th place at 3.83 million.
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Poker lexicon:
- DOUBLE BELLY BUSTER - A two-way inside straight. E.g., 3-5-6-7-9.
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
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