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

07-12-2008 12:21 UTC-7

Clark Eliminated by Silber

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Tony Clark entered Day 5 somewhat short. He leaves it after just ten minutes, completely busto.

Alexander Kostritsyn opened the pot with a raise to 25,000. Tony Clark, in middle position, reraised for his whole stack, a total of 391,000. Action folded to to Reagan Silber in the small blind, who called. Kostritsyn was not interested in pursuing the matter further and folded. With him out of the way, the players opened their hands:

Clark: {9-Spades}

Silber:

Clark found himself on the wrong end of a pair versus pair situation. He couldn't improve when the board ran out {2-Diamonds}

. He is out of the tournament. Silber crested the 1,000,000-chip mark with that elimination.

07-12-2008 12:22 UTC-7

One Good Turn Deserves...

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Lisa Parsons opened for 27,000 and Keith Ferrera called from the button and Dennis Phillips and Rafael Caiaffa called from the blinds. They saw a {J-Hearts}

flop and when Parsons checked Ferrera bet 84,000. Phillips called and Caiaffa and Parsons got out of the way. The turn brought the {9-Diamonds}

and both players checked, but when the {6-Hearts}

fell on the river Phillips led out for 80,000 and Ferrera looked him up. Phillips rolled over {K-?}

for the nut straight and Ferrera mucked.

07-12-2008 12:23 UTC-7

Hai Bo KOed

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A short-stacked Hai Bo Chu shoved his last 90,000 in the middle and was called by Nghia Le.

"I have nothing but live cards," said Chu, turning over {9-Hearts}

. "Or not," he added, seeing Le turn over his {Q-Hearts}

.

The flop came {5-Spades}

. "You got it," Chu conceded. The {2-Diamonds}

on the turn sealed the deal, and Chu is out.

Le, meanwhile, now has about 400,000.

Tags: Hai Bo Chu Nghia Le

07-12-2008 12:24 UTC-7

Jerry Cusick Eliminated

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Jerry Cusick joined the list of early Day 5 casualties. He got the last of his chips in before the flop holding {9-Hearts}

but ran into the {J-Hearts}

of Matthew Jensen.

The board ran out {A-Hearts}

and Cusick's nines were second best. He hit the rail while Jensen climbed to just over 500,000 chips.

07-12-2008 12:26 UTC-7

Cort Kibler-Melby Doubles Up

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Here we had your classic race situation--Cort Kibler-Melby's {A-Spades}

against Cedrick Kolstad's {Q-Hearts}

--and this time Big Slick triumphed as the flop came {9-Diamonds}

and Kibler-Melby's hand held to double him to 470,000.

07-12-2008 12:28 UTC-7

Anthony Meeker Eliminated

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A short-stacked Anthony Meeker made his stand and moved all in before the flop holding {A-Diamonds}

. Tom Cope looked him up and tabled {J-Hearts}

.

The flop came {J-Diamonds}

giving Meeker a pair but Cope top set. Meeker was drawing to running eights that never came and was eliminated. Cope chipped up to just under 425,000 on the hand.

07-12-2008 12:30 UTC-7

Corkins Not So Sweet to Sweeting

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Hoyt Corkins, one of the "name" pros still alive in the field, has sent Neil Sweeting to the rail. Corkins raised to 25,000 from early position. Sweeting, as next to act, reraised all in for 159,000. Action folded back to Corkins, who made an easy call with {A-Hearts}

. Sweeting showed {6-Clubs}

and showed some life when the flop came down {A-Clubs}

. The

on the turn slammed the door shut on Sweeting. The board finished out {4-Spades}

.

Corkins now has about 440,000 chips.

07-12-2008 12:32 UTC-7

Diren Yildiz Eliminated

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We caught up to this hand on the flop. With the board reading {A-Diamonds}

and all of Diren Yildiz's chips in the pot, he rolled over {7-Clubs}

for bottom set. Much to Yildiz's dismay, his lone opponent, Toni Judet, tabled {10-Spades}

for middle set.

The turn and river fell the {2-Spades}

and

respectively and Diren Yildiz was eliminated. Judet is now a force with about 1,800,000 chips.

07-12-2008 12:33 UTC-7

Lisa Parsons Doubles Up

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Day 5 has not started smoothly for Keith Ferrera. He raised to 27,000 from middle position and Rafael Caiaffa called from the button and Lisa Parsons from the big blind. The flop came {8-Clubs}

and after Parsons checked Ferrera bet 49,000. Caiaffa folded and Parsons called. She also check-called when Ferrera bet 84,000 when the {7-Hearts}

turned, and when the {7-Spades}

came on the river and Ferrera bet 45,000 to set Parsons all in, she again made the call.

And scooped the pot when her {K-Hearts}

was good enough to make Ferrera muck his hand. He's now down to 800,000 and Lisa is up to around 700,000.

07-12-2008 12:33 UTC-7

Hellmuth Drops a Pot to Cantu

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Phil Hellmuth eating (what else) fish for dinner during play last night

On a flop of {8-Hearts}

, Brandon Cantu led out for 55,000 from late position. Phil Hellmuth called from the cutoff and Barry Leventhal folded on the button.

"Where's Honey? Honey!" called out Hellmuth, looking for his wife on the rail.

"I'm home!" David Saab echoed with a chuckle.

The turn was the {10-Clubs}

. Cantu checked.

"For some reason, I just wanna win this pot right now. I'll show it to you" said Hellmuth as he bet 40,000. Cantu made the call.

The river was the {7-Hearts}

. Cantu checked and Hellmuth checked behind.

Hellmuth rolled over {6-?}

and knocked over a stack of his chips when he saw Cantu's {J-Clubs}

. Cantu raked in the pot.

Tags: Brandon Cantu Phil Hellmuth