Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 9

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

06-19-2009 17:36 UTC-12

Breaktime

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It's our last break of the night; we'll be back shortly for one more two-level session in 20 minutes.

06-19-2009 17:24 UTC-12

David Sands is absolutely on fire -- he's knocked out another player and is up to 39,000.

A flurry of preflop raising led to our soon-to-be-busted player getting all his chips in preflop with Sands and another opponent looking at a {Q-Hearts}

flop. Sands' opponent check-called all the way down the flop, the {8-Clubs}

turn and the {K-Hearts}

river and then flipped over {K-Clubs}

for top two -- but Sands had flopped the set with pocket {Q-Spades}

and took the pot. The hapless all-inner mucked and left.

Tags: David Sands

06-19-2009 17:16 UTC-12

Chip Counts For Your Enjoyment

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Brock Parker: 12,000
Daniel Webb: 5,000
Maria Ho: 15,000
Phil Hellmuth: 25,000
Barry Greenstein: 9,000
J.C. Tran: 4,100
Henning Granstad: 20,000
Rep Porter: 15,000
Marcel Luske: 25,000
John Monette: 35,000
Greg Mueller: 4,500
Daniel Negreanu: 30,000
Matt Hawrilenko: 4,500
Alex Kravchenko: 18,000
Teddy "Iceman" Monroe: 15,000
Marc Naalden: 8,300

06-19-2009 17:03 UTC-12

Webb Getting Desperate

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Maria Ho raised from the cutoff and on the button Daniel Webb re-popped; she called.

Ho check-called the {6-Hearts}

flop and then bet out on the {Q-Clubs}

turn. Both players checked the {2-Diamonds}

river, and Ho's {A-Diamonds}

had binked just enough to beat Webb's {A-?}

.

Ho: 19,000
Webb: a very precarious 3,000

06-19-2009 16:55 UTC-12

Sands Still Leads

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David Sands has only increased his chip lead in the last few hands -- he's just busted another player, his {A-Hearts}

as pretty as could be come the river of the {7-Spades}

board.

He's up to 36,000.

Tags: David Sands

06-19-2009 16:49 UTC-12

Lindgren Explodes

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Possibly it wasn't as dramatic as all that, but out he goes, entirely busto.

Tags: Erick Lindgren

06-19-2009 16:46 UTC-12

Hellmuth Flushes

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Phil Hellmuth, looking curiously younger than usual today without his baseball cap and shades, is up to 22,000 after calling all the way down the {7-Clubs}

board with {A-Spades}

. His opponent flipped over ahead-til-the-river pocket {J-Clubs}

, and the pot belonged to Hellmuth.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 0

06-19-2009 16:39 UTC-12

Iceman Fancies His Chances

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Teddy "Iceman" Monroe is seated at the same table as chip leader David Sands and is concerned.

"You have too many chips," he told Sands. And then a warning: "You're messing with the number one live limit player in the world."