2008 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
10♦4♦
Prize
$831,462
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$5,363,085
Entries
3,929
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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Where Do We Go From Here?

[user75032]
[user75032]
After an hour and fifteen minutes of heads up play, we're not much closer to deciding the outcome of this tournament. In that time, we have played 39 hands. Only eight of them have seen a river. Two hands were ended on the turn, and four hands were won with a bet on the flop. The rest were taken down preflop.

Neither player seems willing to take much risk, although James Akenhead has definitely been applying more pressure on Grant Hinkle than the other way around. The crowd is starting to lose interest, with several spectators yawning and rubbing their eyes.

Interestingly, we are off the structure chart that Harrah's provided to all players at the start of the tournament. That chart (optimistically?) had only 28 levels. We are now starting Level 29, blinds of 80,000 / 160,000 with an ante of 20,000.

Updated Chip Counts

[user40108]
[user40108]
Heads Up Play
Heads Up Play
James Akenhead - 6,735,000
Grant Hinkle - 5,050,000

James Akenhead has taken the chip lead and at the start of this level, each player will have 42 and 32 big blinds respectively. We'll see how this affects their strategies. Despite the rising blinds and antes, there is still plenty of room left for post-flop play, and given the way this tournament has gone up to this point, we may see the action in round 29 resemble that of round 28.

Level: 29

Blinds: 80,000/160,000

Ante: 20,000

Hand #146 - James Akenhead

[user75032]
[user75032]
Grant Hinkle has the button in seat 10. He raises to 350,000. James Akenhead makes the call. Off to the flop we go.

{Q-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {7-Spades} is our flop. Akenhead checks. Hinkle wastes no time in making a continuation bet of 400,000. Akenhead calls.

The turn comes {10-Clubs}. Check, check. The river comes {Q-Hearts}. Akenhead now bets 500,000. This hand fits a familiar pattern and sure enough, Hinkle folds.
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