2008 World Series of Poker

Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
$496,931
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,049,200
Entries
218
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Day 2 Seating Assignments Announced

Terrence Chan is in second place entering today's action
Terrence Chan is in second place entering today's action
Overnight, the WSOP has released the seating assignments for today's second day of action. JC Tran leads the 97 surviving players, who will break the money bubble and settle on a final table later in today's session. The data as sent shows these seating assignments; along with chip counts, the player lineup is as follows:

(Table 40)
Seat 1: John Hennigan – 41,700
Seat 2: Anahit Galajian – 31,400
Seat 3: Kenny Shei – 63,000
Seat 4: James Gorham – 57,400
Seat 5: Cathleen Tran – 52,900
Seat 6: Junpei Ushio – 36,300
Seat 7: Rob Hollink – 45,300
Seat 8: Jan Sjavik – 55,500
Seat 9: Roman Draheim – 28,100

(Table 41)
Seat 1: Terrence Chan – 97,900
Seat 2: Tyler Bonkowski – 11,400
Seat 3: Shawn Buchanan – 21,800
Seat 4: Greg Mueller – 73,300
Seat 5: Alex Kravchenko – 79,800
Seat 6: Joe Sebok – 23,600
Seat 7: Kieu Duong – 7,600
Seat 8: Jayde Tran – 15,200
Seat 9: Patrick Bueno – 76,700

(Table 42)
Seat 1: Ray Henson – 20,200
Seat 2: Greg DeBora – 76,500
Seat 3: Diego Cordovez – 57,500
Seat 4: Leo Fernandez – 17,700
Seat 5: Cy Jassinowsky – 49,700
Seat 6: JC Tran – 106,400
Seat 7: Zvi Groysman – 60,000
Seat 8: Tommy Rounds – 76,200
Seat 9: Chris Vaughn – 18,100

(Table 43)
Seat 1: Eric Froehlich – 40,900
Seat 2: Nick Schulman – 13,000
Seat 3: Jeff Awad – 9,900
Seat 4: Karen Longfellow – 30,900
Seat 5: Huck Seed – 47,200
Seat 6: Dustin Dorrance-Bowman – 19,400
Seat 7: Claudio Pagano – 49,900
Seat 8: Pat Pezzin – 69,800
Seat 9: Thomas Wahlroos – 36,100

(Table 44)
Seat 1: Max Casal – 89,700
Seat 2: Phil Tom – 22,200
Seat 3: Michael Mizrachi – 74,400
Seat 4: Shawn Keller – 10,400
Seat 5: Joshua Druck – 20,500
Seat 6: Stephen Wolf – 48,800
Seat 7: Javier Torresola – 56,500
Seat 8: Justin Bonomo – 94,000
Seat 9: Debdeep Maji – 15,400

(Table 45)
Seat 1: Ray Dehkharghani – 90,800
Seat 2: Minh Ly – 16,800
Seat 3: Canh Phan – 51,500
Seat 4: Jim Feldhouse – 15,700
Seat 6: Matt Woodward – 56,900
Seat 7: Brock Parker – 60,600
Seat 8: Mark Gregorich – 20,500
Seat 9: Matt Sterling – 74,000

(Table 46)
Seat 1: Mike Wattel – 18,300
Seat 2: Millie Shiu – 29,000
Seat 3: Chris Vitch – 78,200
Seat 5: Dustin Sitar – 56,100
Seat 6: Zachary Hyman – 19,800
Seat 7: Campbell Davis – 18,500
Seat 8: Aaron Katz – 71,900
Seat 9: Eric Buchman – 95,200

(Table 47)
Seat 1: Joseph DiMartino – 13,000
Seat 2: David Oppenheim – 89,900
Seat 3: Samrane Siharath – 65,700
Seat 4: Dewey Tomko – 24,200
Seat 5: Brian Powell – 76,300
Seat 6: Todd Brunson – 29,800
Seat 7: Van Marcus – 30,900
Seat 9: Jerrod Ankenman – 7,000

(Table 48)
Seat 1: Tex Barch – 52,500
Seat 2: Sorel Mizzi – 23,700
Seat 3: Hoyt Corkins – 48,900
Seat 4: Tim Kasparoff – 31,900
Seat 5: Theodore Park – 35,400
Seat 6: Thomas Johnston – 75,600
Seat 8: Michael Guzzardi – 43,100
Seat 9: Mickey Appleman – 65,700
Seat 9: Marco Traniello – 51,200

(Table 49)
Seat 1: Erick Lindgren – 55,100
Seat 2: Joe Cassidy – 48,800
Seat 3: Seongkoo Kang – 18,200
Seat 4: Todd Witteles – 53,900
Seat 5: Tommy Hang – 63,100
Seat 6: Richard Chase – 44,600
Seat 7: Richard Brodie – 25,200
Seat 8: Brett Richey – 54,200
Seat 8: Shun Uchida – 49,700
Seat 9: Howard Lederer – 49,500

(Table 50)
Seat 1: Spencer Lawrence – 47,100
Seat 2: Tom McCormick – 5,800
Seat 3: Liz Lieu – 8,600
Seat 4: David Olson – 47,100
Seat 5: Steven McCuller – 8,600
Seat 6: Andy Bloch – 63,400
Seat 7: Chuck Danielsson – 52,500
Seat 8: Steve Sung – 40,900
Seat 9: Bob Redman – 35,200

Tags: JC TranTerrence Chan

Level: 9

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 0

Hoyt Wins a Big One

Preflop Hoyt bumped the bet from middle position and Thomas Johnston raised from the button. Everyone folded around to Hoyt, who called.

Flop: {5-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {J-Hearts}

Hoyt check-raised the flop and Thomas called. The turn brought the {3-Clubs} and Hoyt led out again and Thomas called. The river was the {8-Hearts}, Hoyt bet and Thomas called. Hoyt turned over {A-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} for a pair of fives which was good enough to take down the pot. After the hand, Hoyt is up to 57,800.

Recent Eliminations

Ten players have already been eliminated today, and that unhappy list includes:

Phil Tom
Liz Lieu
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman
Jayde Tran
Tom McCormick
Jim Fieldhouse
Steven McCuller
Tyler Bonkowski
Bob Redman
Debdeep Maji

Mizzi Doubles Through Tex

Sorel Mizzi just doubled through Tex Barch. Barch had led out preflop and Mizzi raised. Barch called and saw a flop of {J-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {J-Diamonds}. Barch led out and Mizzi managed to get all his chips in the middle. Mizzi held pocket fours, which held up against Barch's {A-Hearts} {6-Hearts}. Mizzi is up to 13,500, while Barch started a winning streak after the hand and is up to 66,000.

Table Hockey

Greg Mueller and his table had been discussing various things regarding hockey when Joe Sebok asked Greg what he'd be better at getting away with against Greg; a hipcheck or a crosscheck. Greg smiled and advised him "neither".

Tran Misses the Flush...Literally

J.C. Tran was involved in a three-way hand with Leo Fernandez and Ray Henson. Leo had bet on the flop, turn, and river. Ray let it go by the river, but Tran called Leo's all-in bet after the board came running spades, with the {7-Spades} spiking last. Tran turned over pocket sevens for a set, while Leo held 10-2, no spade.

Tran's set was good, but many players at the table seemed confused why he wasn't worried about the fourth spade. Easy. According to Tran, he didn't realize it made the four-flush when he called.