2008 World Series of Poker

Event 47 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low
Day: 1
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$183,368
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$742,560
Entries
544
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

Bell Survives Back-to-Back All-in Hands

It's good to have two ways to win. It gives a player twice as many ways to survive an all in. Just ask Chris Bell.

In a recent hand, he was all in against two players, but managed to snag half of the put when his board came {5-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} / {3-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {A-Spades} / {8-Hearts} to make a six low. The very next hand, Bell was all in a second time and hit the low half of the pot again, this time with a board of {5-Hearts} {6-Clubs} / {2-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} / {7-Hearts} to make a seven low. He is still in short stack land, but picked up a few chips each time to increased his meager stack to 1,400.

Battle of the Women

Cyndy's Winning Smile
Cyndy's Winning Smile
Cyndy Violette: x-x / {5-Spades}{7-Spades}
Middle Position Player: x-x / {6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}
Maureen Feduniak x-x / {J-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}

Picking things up on fourth street, the MP player bets. Maureen calls and Cyndy raises. Both call.

Fifth:
Cyndy: {5-Clubs}
MP: {K-Clubs}
Maureen: {J-Clubs}

MP checks. Cyndy bets and both call.

Sixth:
Cyndy: {8-Clubs}
MP: {4-Hearts}
Maureen: {9-Diamonds}

MP checks. Cyndy bets and both call.

Seventh:
MP checks. Cyndy bets. MP folds and Maureen calls.

Cyndy: ({2-Spades}{6-Diamonds}){5-Spades}{7-Spades}{5-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}
Maureen: (x-x){J-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{J-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}-x (muck)

Cyndy scoops with an eight-high straight and a 2-4-5-6-7 low. She's up to 5,800 while Maureen is down to 2,800.

Tags: Cyndy Violette

Late Entrance, Early Exit

Hoyt Corkins
Hoyt Corkins
Hoyt Corkins was late arriving to today's event, coming only after he busted out of the $50,000 HORSE event. He's also an early departure, after getting the last of his chips in against two players. Corkins held {5-Spades} {4-Spades} / {2-Clubs} {6-Clubs} when his chips went in. The two other player got involved in a side pot that folded one of them. Corkins only had to beat the remaining player.

Corkins' board ran out {8-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {4-Clubs} to make a pair of fours for high, and 8-6 for low. That wasn't good enough on either end when his opponent's board came {5-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} / {5-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {7-Spades}, for a pair of fives for high and 7-5 for low.

Corkins was eliminated on the hand.

Tags: Hoyt Corkins

Bigger and Smaller Than Jesus

Chris "Jesus" Ferguson: x-x / {2-Spades}
Middle-position player 1: x-x / {3-Spades}
MP player 2: x-x / {5-Spades}

Third street:
Ferguson brings it in and one player raises. Another player calls and Ferguson reraises all in. Both call.

Other streets:
The first opponent bets on the side on every street and the second opponent calls.

Ferguson: ({2-Hearts}{A-Spades}){2-Spades}{8-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{7-Clubs}
MP 1: ({6-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}){3-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{7-Hearts}
MP 2: ({8-Hearts}{9-Spades}){5-Spades}{10-Spades}{6-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{7-Spades}

The first opponent gets A-2-3-6-7 for low and the second opponent gets 6-7-8-9-10 for high. Ferguson is out.

Tags: Chris Ferguson

How Sweet It is for Sugar Bear

Al Barbieri brought it in with the {2-Hearts} and was called, but not completed, by two players, one with the {9-Diamonds} and the other with the {10-Spades}. On fourth street, Barbieri caught the {2-Clubs} for an open pair of deuces, and led the betting against the {9-Diamonds} {5-Spades} and the {10-Spades} {6-Hearts}. On fifth street, one of Barbieri's opponents made an open pair of nines, but checked the action to Barbieri when he caught the {A-Hearts}. Those two players were heads up to sixth street, where the boards read:

Barbieri: x-x / {2-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {A-Hearts} {Q-Spades}
Opponent: x-x / {9-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {9-Clubs} {3-Clubs}

Barbieri's opponent bet. Barbieri thought things over briefly, then called. Both players checked the river. Barbieri's opponent couldn't do better than the pair of nines on his board, but Barbieri found another queen in the hole for two pair, queens and deuces. He scooped the pot.

Prize Pool Updated

A total of 544 players entered this event, creating a prize pool of $744,560. Fifty-six players are paid, with 56th place receiving $2,450 and the winner $183,368.