Event 41 - $1,500 Mixed Hold'em | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-24-2008 17:01 UTC-7

A Little More Heat on Rentes

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No-Limit Hold'em:

Chris Rentes has the button in Seat 1. Action passes to him, and he opens with a raise to 27,000. Jalali folds in the small blind, and Nick Binger thinks for a minute before calling out of the big blind.

The two men see a heads-up flop come down {8-Hearts}

. Binger checks and Rentes bets 36,000. Binger announces, "Raise," and he bumps it up to 86,000. Rentes quickly folds, and Binger wins another pot with his aggression.

06-24-2008 16:55 UTC-7

Binger Keeping the Heat On

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The players have played a total of 44 hands here at the final table, and Nick Binger has raised preflop in 22 of them, exactly 50%.

06-24-2008 16:54 UTC-7

Binger Gets Some Back

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Limit Hold'em:

Nick Binger has the button in Seat 4. He comes in raising, and Jonathan Tamayo three bets it from the small blind. Binger calls.

The flop comes {Q-Clubs}

. Tamayo bets, and Binger calls.

The turn is the {10-Clubs}

, and both men check.

The last card off is the {J-Diamonds}

. Tamayo checks, Binger bets, and Tamayo forecefully flings the calling chips into the pot. Binger flips over the {J-Clubs}

, and he takes down the pot with a flush.

06-24-2008 16:48 UTC-7

Not So Easy Now

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Limit Hold'em:

Nick Binger may be a mere mortal after all. He has just lost two pots in a row to Frank Gary.

In the first, Binger raised first in from the button and Gary called. The flop came {J-Hearts}

. Gary check-raised a bet from Binger, and both players put two bets in. On fourth street, the {3-Diamonds}

peeled off. Gary bet out. Binger shook his head and shotan eye over at his opponent. After a minute or so, Binger slammed his chips and slid his cards into the muck.

On the next hand, Binger again opened with a raise, this time from one seat over in the cutoff. Once more, Gary was the only caller. The flop came {5-Hearts}

. Gary check-called a bet from Binger. The turn came the {A-Diamonds}

, and both players checked. The river brought the {A-Clubs}

. Gary checked, Binger bet, and Gary called. Binger tabled {K-?}

, and was bested by the {7-?}

of Gary.

Nick Binger shipped two pots in a row to Gary, and has been knocked down under the 1,000,000-chip mark. Frank Gary, meanwhile, has chipped up to 411,000.

06-24-2008 16:35 UTC-7