39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event Day 5 | 2008 World Series of Poker

07-12-2008 22:44 UTC-7

Couldn't Have Had Much

Shamus

Reggie Lyons raised to 67,000 from middle position, and Suresh Prabhu, sitting to his right, made the call. It folded to David Saab in the cutoff who carefully counted his chips, then pushed forward two tall stacks of orange T5,000 chips -- a reraise to 215,000. It folded back to Lyons who thought about it, then pushed his cards to the middle. Prabhu folded as well.

Saab slowly raised his hand up, revealing to the table one of his cards -- the {4-Hearts}

-- before dragging the pot.

"I was tired of being blinded out," said Saab. He's still sitting with a little over two million.

Tags: David Saab Richard Lyons Suresh Prabhu

07-12-2008 22:49 UTC-7

Nguyen Overpowers Dragomir

[user67765]

After Cristian Dragomir had raised preflop and Phi Nguyen called in the small blind, the action heated up on the turn with the board reading {Q-Hearts}

. We believe Nguyen fired out a bet of around 100,000 before Dragomir made it roughly 300,000 to go. Nguyen moved all in and sent Dragomir into the tank. He eventually laid it down and Nguyen collected a nice pot to move to about 1.7 million chips.

Tags: Cristian Dragomir Phi Nguyen

07-12-2008 22:51 UTC-7

Plenty of Banter

[user67765]

A few minutes ago, there was a moment when about three different conversations were going on at the feature table all at the same time.

Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow were joking around with Aaron Keay; Hellmuth started a brief argument with David Rheem; meanwhile Matusow broke into a third conversation with Sean Davis. Everyone seemed to be doing the talking and with the TD announcing the action over the microphone, it made it impossible for us to decipher what exactly was being said. Then we heard another player bluntly comment, “Guys, there’s a hand going on here!” which quickly put the conversations to rest.

07-12-2008 22:52 UTC-7

A Pleasant Surprise

Shamus

Chris Klodnicki raised to 165,000 from under the gun, and Albert Kim called behind him. The flop came {K-Clubs}

. Klodnicki made a continuation bet of 100,000, and Kim called.

The turn brought the {7-Diamonds}

. This time Klodnicki bet 225,000. Kim called again.

The river was the {K-Spades}

. Klodnicki checked. "Oh my God," said Kim. "How ridiculous was that river? I check. You got aces?"

"Threes," answered Klodnicki, showing his {3-Clubs}

.

"Wow," said Kim, grateful that his {8-Spades}

was good.

Kim now has 3.4 million, while Klodnicki has just a little over one million.

Tags: Albert Kim Chris Klodnicki

07-12-2008 22:52 UTC-7

Cedric Kolstad Eliminated

[user40108]

Action folded to Peter Neff on the button and he raised to 65,000. Cedric Kolstad called from the small blind and it was heads up to the flop.

The flop came {9-Spades}

. Kolstad checked and Neff moved all in. Kolstad was the shorter stack and called all in for his tournament life. The players showed:

Neff: {9-Clubs}

Kolstad:

The turn sealed the deal as it fell the {9-Diamonds}

. The

on the river was a mere formality. Kolstad was eliminated and Neff chipped up to just over 1,000,000.

07-12-2008 22:54 UTC-7

Kido Squeezes With Air

[user67765]

Tiffany Michelle opened with a raise to 70,000 from early position before Dean Hamrick called on the button. The action was then with Kido Pham, who moved all in from the small blind for about 500,000 in chips.

Both opponents folded as Pham exclaimed, "Kids, don't try this at home!" as he flashed {9-Hearts}

!

Tags: Kido Pham

07-12-2008 22:57 UTC-7

Alexander Kostritsyn Has Been Eliminated

[user37786]

It was an up-and-down day for Alexander Kostritsyn, though the deck dealt him more of the latter than the former. On his final hand he opened for 65,000 and Garrett Beckman called on the button. The flop came {4-Clubs}

and when Kostritsyn checked, Beckman bet 90,000. Alex counted out his chips, arrived at 395,000, and moved all in.

Beckman spent about four minutes chewing it over before making the call, and found that his {7-Spades}

were ahead of Kostritsyn's {A-Hearts}

. Beckman still had to sweat the turn and river but when the came {2-Diamonds}

he took down the pot. Kostritsyn shook everyone's hand, wished them all good luck, and walked away from the table.

07-12-2008 22:58 UTC-7

Outhred Doubles Through Carroll

[user67765]

Alex Outhred has doubled up through Michael Carroll after winning a preflop race holding {Q-Spades}

against Carroll's {9-Clubs}

.

The board of {10-Clubs}

gave Outhred a pair of queens to double to 664,000 chips.

Tags: Alex Outhred Michael Carroll

07-12-2008 22:58 UTC-7

666 Not So Evil for Justin Scott

[user25067]

Justin Scott limped in from late position, Alfredo Fernandez limped in from the cutoff, Davor Lanini raised to 100,000 from the small blind, Scott called and Fernandez folded. The flop was {K-Diamonds}

and both players checked. The turn was the {6-Spades}

. Lanini bet 100,000 and Scott called. The river was the {10-Clubs}

. Lanini check-called another 100,000.

Scott showed {6-Hearts}

for a turned set and Lanini mucked. Scott was up to 1,720,000 after the hand while Lanini fell to 750,000.

Tags: Davor Lanini Justin Scott

07-12-2008 23:03 UTC-7

Pham Coaxes a Call

[user67765]

Kido Pham raised it up to 60,000 and and Tim Loecke made the call on the button.

The board of {2-Spades}

was checked through until the river when Pham fired out about 100,000.

After some table talk, Pham coaxed Loecke into making the call with pocket eights, but Pham flipped {A-Diamonds}

for top pair to add to his stack.

Tags: Kido Pham Tim Loecke