39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1c | 2008 World Series of Poker

07-05-2008 23:11 UTC-7

Frankie O'Dell Doubles Up

[user25067]

Frankie O'Dell had taken some early hits and had ground back up to his starting stack of 20,000 when this hand came up.

O'Dell opened for 1,500, a middle-position player raised to 3,200, the button flat-called and O'Dell called. The flop was {A-Diamonds}

and the action was checked around. The turn was the {9-Clubs}

. O'Dell checked, the MP player checked, the button bet 8,000, O'Dell moved all in for 18,000, the MP player folded and the button called.

O'Dell turned up {4-Diamonds}

for a set, having out-flopped the button's {Q-Clubs}

. The river was the {6-Diamonds}

and O'Dell raked in the pot, doubling his stack to 40,000.

Tags: Frankie O'Dell

07-05-2008 23:07 UTC-7

Martin Dartin' Up Leaderboard

Shamus

Michael Martin just eliminated an opponent when his {4-Diamonds}

cracked the shorter-stacked player's {A-Diamonds}

. Martin flopped a four, and they got it all in the middle thereafter.

Martin has tripped up to 105,000.

Tags: Michael Martin

07-05-2008 23:06 UTC-7

Boutin Slipping

[user25067]

Five players including Burt Boutin and Brian Rast limped in and saw a {Q-Clubs}

flop. Boutin bet 1,500 and the action folded to Rast, who raised to 11,500, nearly enough to put Boutin all in. After a bit of a think, Boutin showed {6-Clubs}

and folded.

"Come on, Burt. How can you call that? Either you make a bad call and maybe get there or you're drawing stone dead," offered Rast as he dragged the pot.

Boutin is down to 13,000.

Tags: Brian Rast Burt Boutin

07-05-2008 23:01 UTC-7

Hamby Made Into a Patty

MarcC

Jared Hamby and Chris Lorenzo saw a {J-?}

flop. Hamby, in the small blind, was first to act and open-shoved for 14,000 with {A-?}

.

Lorenzo called, as you would, with {Q-?}

for the flopped nuts. There was no re-draw for Hamby and he headed off.

Tags: Jared Hamby

07-05-2008 22:58 UTC-7

Hachem Loses Small Pot

[user38368]

A player makes a standard raise from early position and the player next to him calls. Joe Hachem calls from middle position.

The flop is {7-Clubs}

and everyone checks. The turn is {J-Clubs}

and everyone checks. The river is {Q-Hearts}

and the EP player bets 5,000. The other EP player calls and Hachem folds. EP 2 shows {8-Diamonds}

and EP 1 shows {K-Spades}

to take it down. "You have no idea how many outs I had there," says Hachem. He's down to 37,000.

07-05-2008 22:56 UTC-7

World Champions Abound

[user42991]

Sitting in the Orange 3 seat 2 is John Part, who is the current PDC World Darts Champion. He is from Toronto Canada and has several world championship in darts.

Part currently sits with 15,000 in chips.

Tags: John Part

07-05-2008 22:51 UTC-7

Jonathan Kalmar Eliminated

[user67765]

Just before the break Jon Kalmar was involved in a huge hand that led to him being eliminated from the tournament.

On a board of {3-Spades}

and already with 30,000 in the pot, Serj Markarian led out for 10,000 before Kalmar moved all in for 37,775 in total.

Markarian went into the tank, and asked the floor staff if he would receive a penalty if he exposed his cards. After being told he would receive a penalty, he decided to make the call and tabled {A-Clubs}

for two pair but trailed the {2-Hearts}

for a set of deuces for Kalmar.

However the river landed the {3-Clubs}

to give both players a full house, but Markarian's threes full of aces were good against Kalmar's deuces full of threes.

Kalmar won't be able to repeat his final table performance of last year as he heads to the exit, while Markarian is up to 115,000 chips.

Tags: John Kalmar Serj Markarian