2008 World Series of Poker

Event 52 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
$625,443
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,675,945
Entries
2,693
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Recent Eliminations

Osmin Dardon - 176th Place
Osmin Dardon - 176th Place
176th - Osmin Dardon - $3,124
177th - Kevin Hammer - $3,124
178th - Pei Sheng - $3,124
179th - Barrie Eget - $3,124
180th - James Necochea - $3,124
181st - Walter Schrader - $3,124
182nd - Matthew Walker - $3,124
183rd - Christopher Seeger - $3,124
184th - Farhad Kohanim - $3,124
185th - Lars Mathiesen - $3,124
186th - Jong Jin - $3,124
187th - Erich Klapper - $3,124
188th - Aaron D Lasater - $3,124
189th - Fred Northcutt - $3,124
190th - Jeffrey Siegal - $3,124
191st - Casimir Fudala - $3,124
192nd - Joshua Vanduyn - $3,124
193rd - Peng Cheng - $3,124
194th - Ljubisa Nedimovic - $3,124
195th - Austin Pinard - $3,124
196th - Michael Chu - $3,124
197th - Richard Danford - $3,124
198th - Sajid Zia - $3,124
199th - Jonas Grankvist - $2,940
200th - Alain Pare - $2,940

Ladies Lucky Again For Vanessa Rousso

A few hands after she won a pot after flopped a pair of queens Vanessa Roussou doubled up when she was dealt pocket queens to Rick Ribble Jr's pocket nines. Rousso's queens held up and she doubled to 63,000.

She gave Ribble a few of those chips back a bit later when he moved in his last 8,000 with {Q-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} and Rousso called in the big blind with {K-Spades} {10-Hearts}. Ribble flopped trips and turned quads and doubled up to around 20,000.

Which he promptly lost in a hand with Peter Marr when his {K-Clubs} {9-Clubs} failed to improve against Marr's {A-Spades} {2-Spades}. These last two hands came as I was writing up the first hand between Ribble and Rousso, which gives you an idea of the rock-em sock-em brand of action we're seeing at the start of play today.

Dan Heimiller Eliminates Ted Fiorito

After Dan Heimiller called Ted Fiorito's raise the two saw a flop of {6-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} {2-Spades}. Fiorito, holding {K-?} {J-?}, moved all in. Heimiller, holding pocket deuces, made the call. Fiorito couldn't find a miracle and was eliminated while Heimiller is now up to 97,000.

Lars Kurstjens Eliminated

A short-stacked Lars Kurstjens moved all in from under the gun. Action folded around to John Munson in the big blind who called instantly. Kurstjens tabled {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds} but was in bad shape against the {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} of Munson.

The flop came {8-Spades} {5-Spades} {4-Spades} giving Kurstjens a flush draw but the turn and river came the {7-Hearts} and {10-Hearts} respectively which were no help to him and he was eliminated.

Richard Kirsch Eliminates Steven Kerr

Kerr moved all in from middle position and Kirsch called from the small blind. His {A-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} had Kerr's {A-Hearts} {6-Hearts} dominated and when the board ran out {7-Diamonds} {K-Spades} {7-Spades} {8-Spades} {Q-Clubs} Kirsch took down the pot. Both players had nearly identical stacks and the chips had to be counted down before it was discovered that the stacks actually WERE identical. Both players had exactly 34,500, and Kerr's stack was pushed to Kirsch.

Thomas King Eliminates Andrew Gentile

Thomas King has quickly built up his stack during the first two hours of play and his latest acquisition came at the expense of Andrew Gentile. They were all in before the flop with King's pocket queens holding over Gentile's pocket fives, and when the board ran out {3-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {10-Clubs} Gentile was out and King's stack rose to 120,000.

Recent Eliminations

Derek Tomko - 160th Place
Derek Tomko - 160th Place
151st - David Chang - $3,492
152nd - Casey Wentzell - $3,492
153rd - Bryan Buonocore - $3,492
154th - Tam Ho - $3,492
155th - Scott Queckboerner - $3,492
156th - Christian Fockenberg - $3,492
157th - Jorge Degorordo - $3,492
158th - Maurice Angenois - $3,492
159th - Huy Nguyen - $3,492
160th - Derek Tomko - $3,492
161st - Joanne Dorin - $3,492
162nd - Jeppe Nielson - $3,492
163rd - William Warren - $3,124
164th - Michael Preschern - $3,124
165th - Esa Salem - $3,124
166th - Adam Alpayaa - $3,124
167th - Eugene Bauerlein - $3,124
168th - Andrew Perrin - $3,124
169th - James Miller - $3,124
170th - Marc Gagne - $3,124
171st - Christian Tardea - $3,124
172nd - Nicolas Martin - $3,124
173rd - Douglas Hausch - $3,124
174th - Satoru Ishii - $3,124
175th - Yehuda Buchalter - $3,124

Three Times a Lady

Vanessa Rousso just doubled up again when her {Q-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} came out ahead of the {A-Hearts} {Q-Spades} of Josh Paeth. The chips went in before the flop and Rousso mumbled "please hold" before the community cards were dealt. The queens did hold for Lady Maverick and she is now up to about 82,000 chips.