2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,844
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$900,670
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Danged Out to Dry

Danny Dang and his opponent got all their chips in the middle preflop. Dang was holding {7-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} to his opponent's {A-Spades} {K-Clubs}.

The dealer went all the way to the river on this one {Q-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {Q-Spades} {6-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}. The king on the river sealed Dang's fate and it's not a good one.

Tags: Danny Dang

Building a Wolpert

All in on a flop of {7-Spades}{3-Hearts}{K-Spades}, Leo Wolpert shows {K-Hearts}{Q-Clubs} to the {K-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} of Arnaud Mattern. The turn and river are {10-Hearts}{6-Diamonds} and Wolpert doubles through to 25,500. Mattern still has a massive 135,000.

Put Your Hands Together

David Einhorn
David Einhorn
David Einhorn is having a successful Day 1. He appears to have the respect of his current tablemates. In a recent hand, Einhorn raised from middle position to 2,000, and the table quickly folded to the big blind who decided to see the flop, too.

The flop came {J-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{4-Diamonds} and the BB checked. Before Einhorn could even grab some chips with which to bet, his opponent mucked. Einhorn currently has 63,500.

You may remember Einhorn for his deep run in the 2006 Main Event, where he finished 18th and donated all of his winnings to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Today he's sporting the same sky blue sweater with handprints of his wife and children he wore during that WSOP run. At the time he explained how you need good hands to win at poker, so he always brings his best hands with him.

Tags: David Einhorn

Matusow Can't Get No Action

Going for the Check Raise
Going for the Check Raise
On a flop of {6-Diamonds}{A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}, Mike Matusow checks from the big blind position and his opponent bets 1,000. Another opponent folds and Mike calls.

The turn is {Q-Clubs} and Mike checks. His opponent checks.

The river is {10-Diamonds} and Mike checks again. His opponent checks. Mike shows {5-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} for the flush.

"The Greek" Steaming

An Unhappy Greek
An Unhappy Greek
Archie "The Greek" Karas has just taken a hit and he's not too happy about it. He recalled the details to us and said that he'd flopped a set of aces on an {A-?}{2-?}{3-?} flop and after some heavy action, his opponent caught a {4-?} on the turn to make the wheel with his {2-?}{5-?}!

He's steaming at the moment but has 17,000 chips to still be in fine shape.

Tags: Archie KarasThe Greek

From the Robl, He Rises

Hey, I just got aces full paid off.
Hey, I just got aces full paid off.
Preflop, Andrew Robl bet 1,100 and was called by two opponents.

On a flop of {4-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {4-Spades}, the action was checked to Robl, who bet out 2,100. He was called by only one opponent. The turn of the {A-Hearts} fell, and action was again checked to Robl and again he bet out, this time for 4,500. His opponent then check-raised 10,500. Robl made the call.

On the river card of the {K-Diamonds}, Robel's opponent bet 11,000 and Robl raised all in for 15,050. His opponent made the call.

Robl showed {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} and his opponent mucked.

After the hand, Robl is up to 66,000 in chips.

Tags: Andrew Robl

Grospellier Recovers; Akkari Out

On a flop of {6-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{4-Diamonds} Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier check-called the 3,500 bet of Andre Akkari.

They saw the {J-Diamonds} on the turn and both players checked. The river was the {3-Clubs} and Grospellier fired out 7,600. Akkari called and was sick to see that his pocket nines had been cracked by the {6-Hearts}{3-Hearts} of Grospellier.

A few hands later Akkari was all in with {K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds} against a dominating {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} and when the board blanked out {7-?}{4-?}{A-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{K-Clubs} Akkari was eliminated from the event.

Tags: Andre AkkariBertrand GrospellierElkY

Battle of the Blinds

It folded around to the small blind player who raised it up to 5,000 before Moshin Charania reraised to 15,000. The small blind player then moved in for 25,000 total and Charania called.

Charania had {A-Spades} {K-Diamonds} to the small blind's {J-Spades} {J-Hearts}.

The board was {Q-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} hitting Charania smack in the face and clean knocking his opponent out.

Charania up to 122,000 as a result.

Tags: Moshin Charania

In Today's Episode, We Learn the Value of Sharing

At table Orange 5, one of the players took out a bag of Swedish Fish candies and passed them around to all the players at the table. Apparently they forgot to offer the dealer one.

Tomorrow's Day 1d will be sponsored by Sesame Street. The theme of the day will be "sharing."