2008 World Series of Poker

Event 48 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♠k♠
Prize
$770,540
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Prize Pool
$4,216,940
Entries
2,317
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Final-table Seat Assignments Released

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Marco Johnson comes to the final table with the chip lead
Marco Johnson comes to the final table with the chip lead
WSOP officials have now released the final-table lineup for Event 48, $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em. With seat numbers, hometowns and chip counts, these are the nine finalists:

Seat 1: Dan Rome (Millington, Illinois) -- 650,000
Seat 2: Ryan D'Angelo (Blacksburg, Virginia) -- 520,000
Seat 3: Marco Johnson (Walnut Creek, California) -- 2,135,000
Seat 4: Kirill Gerasimov (Moscow, Russia) -- 1,145,000
Seat 5: Robert Brewer (Sherman Oaks, California) -- 1,050,000
Seat 6: Gabe Costner (Long Beach, Mississippi) -- 1,475,000
Seat 7: Alan Cutler (Vernon Hills, Illinois) -- 535,000
Seat 8: Alexandre Gomes (Curitiba, Brazil) -- 1,075,000
Seat 9: Sverre Sundbo (Oslo, Norway) -- 685,000

Tags: Marco Johnson

Players Taking Their Seats

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The players are starting to arrive to the secondary feature table, on the outside of the Mikwaukee's Best Light Bar here in the Amazon Room. There is a large crowd gathering - some waiting to get into the feature table to see the final table of the $50,000 HORSE event, but many are expected to be railing the final table action here with plenty of friends and family following the action into the early hours last night.

The players are unbagging their chips and taking their seats, with play to get underway in a few minutes time. Stay tuned for all the live action!

Level: 23

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 5,000

Early Going

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The first few pots of gone the way of the preflop aggressor with early blinds and antes going to Ryan D'Angelo, Marco Johnson and Alan Cutler.

The only pot that saw a flop was when Johnson raised from the button and Robert Brewer defended from the big blind. They saw a flop of {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{5-Spades} and Johnson took it down with a continuation bet.

Sverre Sundbo Doubles Up

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Preflop, Gabe Costner raised to 110,000 chips from late position and Alexandre Gomes called from the button followed by Sverre Sundbo calling from the small blind.

On a flop {6-Hearts} {K-Spades} {4-Diamonds}, the action was checked around by all three players.

On the turn of the {7-Diamonds}, Sundbo checked to Costner, who bet out 180,000 chips. Gomes called. Sundbo then check raised all in for approximately 340,000 more. Costner wasted no time in calling the bet. Gomes thought for about 30 seconds and then folded.

Sundbo: {6-Clubs} {6-Spades}
Costner: {K-Diamonds} {8-Hearts}

A five was the only card that could give Costner the win for this hand. The river card fell the {A-Hearts} and Sundbo doubled up to approximately 1,600,000 in chips.

After the hand, Costner was left with 750,000 chips.

Tags: Gabe CostnerSverre Sundbo

Do You Know Who I Am?

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Tony G just stopped by the final table to check out the action. Normally, unless you have a media badge, you do not have access inside the rail here at the World Series of Poker. There are exceptions of course.

A security guard who obviously doesn't follow poker came up and asked Tony G for his media pass and told him that he needed to get behind the rail. As this happened, someone came up behind the guard and whispered something in his ear. After getting a "deer caught in headlights" look on his face, he said, "never mind" and left.

Tags: Tony G

Where Are All the Spectators?

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The final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship has just begun introductions and pregame festivities. Obviously, the majority of spectators are watching that event. The Amazon Room, which is normally shoulder to shoulder with spectators and railbirds is almost empty. There are a few people watching the PLO event and this $2,000 NL final, but it is apparent that H.O.R.S.E. is king.

Robert Brewer Aggressive Early

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Robert Brewer has taken three out of the last five pots by raising and taking it. This trend started with him last night when we got to the final ten players. He began raising every other hand, and taking a lot of blind and ante pots.

Brewer currently sits with 1,350,000 chips.

Tags: Robert Brewer

Cutler Doubles Through Sundbo

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Alan Cutler opened with a raise preflop to 140,000 from the cutoff position before Sverre Sundbo announced a reraise from the small blind of an additional 400,000. Before the chips were in the middle Cutler had moved all in, and Sundbo snap-called.

Sundbo: {A-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}
Cutler: {7-Spades}{7-Diamonds}

The board landed {2-Spades}{6-Clubs}{10-Spades}{4-Hearts}{8-Spades} and Cutler's pair of sevens hold to double up to about 1,400,000 bringing Sundbo back to the pack with 750,000.

Tags: Alan CutlerSverre Sundbo

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