Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 18

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-15-2009 20:14 UTC-12

Scoooooooooop

[user75032]

Stud Hi/Lo:

Soulier: x-x / {5-Spades}

/ x
Van Alstyne: x-x / {A-Hearts}

/ x

The aim of the split-pot games is to scoop. It's the only way to make any money. That's exactly what Fabrice Soulier just did to James Van Alstyne. Van Alstyne check-called fifth street, sixth street and the river.

At showdown, Soulier turned up {9-Diamonds}

in the hole for a diamond flush and an 8-6 low. Van Alstyne just mucked his hand and dropped to 63,000. Soulier now has 240,000.

Tags: Fabrice Soulier James Van Alstyne

06-15-2009 20:11 UTC-12

Serock Busts Up the Pardey

donpeters

Stud:

Joe Serock: (X-X) {3-Hearts}

(X)
Rod Pardey: (X-X) {6-Spades}

(X)
Kathy Baxter: (X-X) {8-Hearts}

-FOLD

Serock brought in and then Pardey completed. Baxter called and then when action got back to Serock, he raised. Pardey and Baxter both called. From there, Serock bet on all streets when action was on him. Baxter stayed with her hand until fifth street, where she folded. Pardey stayed all the way and ended up being all in on sixth.

When he got all in, Serock rolled up {A-Hearts}

in the hole. Pardey had a wired pair of eights, {8-Spades}

.

On seventh street, Serock peeled the {6-Diamonds}

, leaving Pardey with outs to any two pair or trips. Pardey pulled the {Q-Hearts}

though and couldn't beat Serock's aces. He was eliminated on the hand while Serock bumped himself up to 145,000 chips.

Tags: Joe Serock Rod Pardey Rodney Pardey Sr.

06-15-2009 20:00 UTC-12

Rousso Rebuilding

[user75032]

Hold'em:

In a game that almost seems quaint and simple by comparison to all the other games, Vanessa Rousso has added more chips to her stack. She limped the button, then called a raise from the small blind to see a flop of {5-Spades}

. The small blind led out, drawing a raise from Rousso that the small blind called.

The {A-Spades}

on the turn brought another bet from the small blind. Rousso called there, then called again on the {2-Hearts}

river. The small blind made a pair of aces, {A-Diamonds}

. No good against Rousso's {A-Clubs}

. She's up to 155,000 as a result.

"I think I liked it better when you didn't have chips," one player at the table said.

"I don't think she cares," commented another.

Tags: Vanessa Rousso

06-15-2009 19:53 UTC-12

Still Here

[user75032]

Yep, we're still here. It's just that large pots have become a rare breed and eliminations are basically extinct. When we set the over/under at 36.5 this morning (a bet we lost miserably), we expected this point of play to come a little sooner than it actually did.

There are a couple of stacks that have grown to more than 200,000 now, but none that are particularly short.

06-15-2009 19:33 UTC-12

Recent Eliminations

[user75032]

We've broken another table. Only four tables remain. These players each busted and received $4,372:

33rd - Clyde Hinton
34th - Richard Brodie
35th - Lawrence Birck
36th - Ronnie Hofman
37th - Kenneth Krouner
38th - William Buckley
39th - Bonnie Leinhos
40th - Timothy Acker

06-15-2009 19:24 UTC-12

Richard Brodie Eliminated

[user75032]

The next player down is Richard Brodie. He was all in preflop with {K-Spades}

against Shannon Shorr and a third player. The board ran out {2-Diamonds}

, with Shorr betting the flop and calling a check-raise, calling the turn, and betting the river. Brodie's third-nut flush was no good against Shorr's {A-Diamonds}