2009 World Series of Poker

Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$692,658
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,078,500
Entries
655
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Nice Play Sowers

Mike Sowers opened with a raise to 40,000 from the cutoff and action folded to Olivier Busquet in the big blind who announced a raise to 115,000. Sowers thought for only a moment before declaring himself all in for an additional 561,000. Busquet went into the tank.

"I'm going to take my time here..." pondered Busquet as a good five minutes elapsed before he found a fold.

"Nice play," said Busquet. He slips to 675,000 with Sowers now up to 850,000.

Tags: Mike SowersOlivier Busquet

Benefield Doubles Through Inselberg

David Benefield
David Benefield
David Inselberg raised to 46,000 from early position and action folded to David Benefield, who pushed for 221,000 from the big blind. Inselberg made the call and the hands were shown.

Benefield: {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}
Inselberg: {A-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}

Inselberg caught some help on a flop of {Q-Spades}{6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}, but nothing more on the turn and river which came {3-Diamonds} and {K-Clubs}. Benefield now has 460,000.

Lemke Applies Pressure

After just doubling up, David Benefield has tried to put those newly-found chips to work, but found resistance from Brian Lemke.

Lemke raised to 42,000 from the button and Benefield made the call in the small blind.

They saw a flop of {5-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{Q-Spades} and Benefield led out with a bet of 57,000, and Lemke made the call. The turn was the {J-Diamonds} and Benefield checked to Lemke, who fired 100,000 into the middle. Benefield only had about 360,000 behind and deliberated for a long time before releasing as Lemke flashed {8-Spades}{3-Spades} for the semi-bluff to move up to over 1 million in chips.

Tags: Brian LemkeDavid Benefield

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

David Benefield Loses His Stack; Eliminated in 14th place ($35,341)

David Benefield
David Benefield
David Benefield suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that led to his elimination in 14th place.

After doubling up through David Inselberg before the last break, Benefield gave all of the chips back when he pushed all in with {A-Spades}{J-Clubs} and got called by Inselberg's {A-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}

A flop of {2-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} put Benefield in the lead, but the {K-Spades} on the turn gave Inselberg Broadway and the hand. The {4-Diamonds} on the river left Benefield with just 1,000.

Benefield's last chip went to the ante and when Thomas Keller open shoved under-the-gun, the rest of the table folded. Keller showed {6-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} to Benefield's {4-Clubs}{5-Clubs}.

A board of {7-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{4-Spades} provided a little help, but the {7-Clubs} on the turn ended Benefield's day. When the {10-Spades} hit the river, Benefield went home in 14th place with $35,341.

Quoss Doubles Through Pham

David Pham raised from the cutoff to 58,000 before Fabian Quoss moved all in from the big blind for an additional 477,000. Pham made the call.

Pham: {J-Diamonds}{J-Hearts}
Quoss: {A-Spades}{K-Clubs}

The board ran out {3-Clubs}{K-Spades}{2-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} and Quoss spikes a king to double up. He's up to 1 million in chips with Pham slipping to 740,000.

Tags: David PhamFabian Quoss

Matthias Neu Eliminated in 13th Place ($35,341)

Matthais Neu
Matthais Neu
Action folded to Matthias Neu in the small blind and he pushed his last 88,000 chips into the middle. Billy Kopp made the call from the big blind and the race started.

Neu: {6-Hearts}{6-Spades}
Kopp: {A-Hearts}{7-Hearts}

When the board ran out {K-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}, Kopp held the better two pair and Neu was sent to the rail.