2008 World Series of Poker

Event 29 - $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
$434,789
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Entries
716
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000

High Drama at the Final Table

John Phan raised preflop to 85,000 and Johnny Neckar reraised 180,000 more. Phan then proceeds to tank for several minutes.

Phan looks over at Neckar and asks, "How much you got?" Neckar does a visible blink and looks at his chips like, "are you serious?" The floor staff comes over and counts down Neckars chips. He had about 1.7 million in chips left.

Phan says, "This could be it huh?" He then proceeds to count his chips. Afterwards, he cuts his chips for a couple of minutes, shifts his seat, looks at his cards, and then just smiles.

Finally, Phan proceeded to fold his cards. While the dealer was shuffling for the next hand, Phan says, "I was almost ready to ship it to you I think. Almost."

This final table is drawing a good crowd. I would estimate that there are 50 people hovering around the final table area, which is a good number considering that it is not a televised table.

Tags: John Phan