2008 World Series of Poker

Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 2
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Matt Graham
Winning Hand
a♦j♦
Prize
$278,180
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,123,395
Entries
823
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
30,000 / 50,000
Ante
0
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Mike Kachan Advances to the Final Table

[user42991]
[user42991]
Steve Kim raised preflop and Mike Kachan made the call.

On a flop of {10-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {2-Clubs}, Kachan bet out and Kim raised. Kim's raise put him all in. Kachan made the call.

Kim: {K-Diamonds} {Q-Spades}
Kachan: {10-Spades} {2-Spades}

The turn card of the {10-Clubs} gave Kachan tens full and left Kim drawing dead. To add insult to injury, the river fell the {10-Hearts}, giving Kachan quad tens and leaving Kim in the payout line.

Tags: Mike Kachan

Lorenz Guarin Eliminated

[user42991]
[user42991]
Lorenz Guarin was all in against Spencer Lawrence.

Guarin: {K-Hearts} {9-Diamonds}
Lawrence: {9-Hearts} {6-Diamonds}

Board: {6-Clubs} {7-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} {7-Diamonds}

Lawrence's sevens up were good enough to send Guarin packing.

Now only two players remain at table 5. Lawrence has 145,000 in chips and Mikael Norinder has 155,000. With the betting limits only 5,000 and 10,000, this table could take a while.

Tags: Lorenz Guarin

Frustraton on Table 8

[user42991]
[user42991]
The mood isn't the best over on table 8. Matt Graham is upset due to the fact that several of his hands have been sucked out on and Stefan Rapp is frustrated that Duane Graff has been catching a few hands to get his stack to over 110,000.

Rapp sits with 160,000 and Graham still has 30,000.

Tags: Duane GraffMatt GrahamStefan Rapp

Calm and Slow

donpeters
donpeters
It's not even that late here at the Rio, but the the slowness of the play must be getting to players. The tables can be found cluttered with empty energy drink cans and cups of soda.

The lack of excitement can be seen if you look at every player's face. Even the shuffling of chips has slowed down.

Remaining Players

[user42991]
[user42991]
Remaining players

Table 11:

Eric Rivkin vs. Brandon Wong

Table 8:

Duane Graff Jr
Matt Graham
Stefan Rapp

Table 9:

Jelger Wiegersma vs. Andrew Prock

Table 10:

Mike Kachan vs. Steve Kim

Table 5:

Mikael Norinder
Lorenz Guarin
Spencer Lawrence

Level: 9

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 0

Commotion

donpeters
donpeters
Because of where the tables are stationed right next to the "No Limit Lounge", spectators are passing back and forth between the remaining tables of the shootout event. Some of the players seem a little upset and uneasy that this is happening, but not much has been done. People just keep finding new ways to travel between the tables and distract the players.
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