Event 47 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-28-2008 19:38 UTC-7

Hunt is On

[user38368]

Thomas Hunt escapes with another chop, this time by making an A-4-5-6-7 versus Alessio Isaia.

06-28-2008 19:29 UTC-7

The players are taking turns as the short stack. Currently, that role is being played by Alessio Isaia. He led the betting all the way to sixth street with chip leader Ryan Hughes, drawing into a board of x-x / {5-Diamonds}

. On sixth street, Hughes raised him with x-x / {10-Spades}

. Isaia made the call, then check-called the river.

Hughes turned over a pair of sevens for high, and 8-7-3-2-A for low. Isaia couldn't come up with even a pair, despite a huge draw, and disgustedly threw his 8-7-6-5-3 low away, turning to Max Pescatori on the rail and complaining bitterly in Italian.

Hughes is back up around 950,000, while Isaia slips to about 150,000.

06-28-2008 19:16 UTC-7

Hunting Party

[user38368]

Thomas Hunt III bets on a fourth street of x-x / {A-Diamonds}

and Alessio Isaia calls with x-x / {8-Clubs}

.

On fifth, Isaia bets {6-Clubs}

and Hunt raises all in with {5-Diamonds}

. Isaia calls.

Hunt: ( {5-Spades}

)

Isaia: (

)

Hunt scoops the pot and is still short, but he has 125,000 to work with now.

06-28-2008 19:11 UTC-7

Tension Continues

[user75032]

The four remaining players in the tournament are not the most talkative bunch, which is somewhat surprising for a structured-limit game. The only one who has shown much emotion at all is Thomas Hunt III, who shouts and becomes quite demonstrative when he is involved in an all-in confrontation.

06-28-2008 19:09 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

[user75032]

Ryan Hughes - 855,000
Ron Long - 374,000
Alessio Isaia - 340,000
Thomas Hunt III - 63,000

06-28-2008 18:59 UTC-7

Hunt Hanging On

[user75032]

Thomas Hunt III is very short, with under 100,000 in chips. He has been all in on four hands in the last ten minutes, each time managing to come up with a chop for half of the pot.

Level: 22

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-28-2008 18:43 UTC-7

Hughes Shows His Mortality

[user75032]

In our first four-handed pot that went to the river, Ryan Hughes proved that he is capable of losing a hand at this final table. Hughes drew into two pair, tens and fives, by sixth street, but Ron Long had made a better two pair, jacks and fours, by fourth street.

Hughes slips back below 900,000 in chips.

06-28-2008 18:34 UTC-7