2009 World Series of Poker

Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q8
Prize
$190,770
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Entries
446
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

Hanging Your Man

Tommy Hang raised from the cut off and then called a three-bet from the button to see a {K-Spades} {7-Spades} {Q-Clubs} flop. The button bet, Hang three-bet, the button four bet and Hang called before the turn came {5-Clubs}.

A bet from Hang and a call, then the river came {2-Clubs}. Another bet and a call was the order of the day. Hang turned over {K-Hearts} {7-Hearts} for the pot as his opponent mucked. He's up to 70,000 now.

Level: 12

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 0

Daniel Takes a Dip

After a good chip-accruing start, Daniel Negreanu has dipped back down to around 18,000.

He reraised preflop and continued to play the {J-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {4-Spades} flop and {K-Clubs} turn aggresively. He and his opponent just checked the {K-Spades} river, though, and Negreanu mucked when his opponent turned over {K-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs}.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

Keating Up Appearances

We have a new chip leader -- Alex Keating is currently dangerously close to breaking that magic 100,000 mark. He's on exactly 96,000 right now, and very definitely the chip daddy in this tournament.

Strath Man

Henric Strath won a pot without a showdown and then lost one soon after. Robert Laberge laid down to a Strath bet on a {2-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {7-Hearts} board in the first hand.

The second hand saw Strath three-bet an opponent's UTG raise but then folded to a check raise on a {9-Spades} {10-Spades} {2-Spades} flop.

Mixed bag so far for Strath who's on 32,000.

Mueller Runs Out of Fuel

No back to back Limit Hold'em titles for this Mueller -- the world champion is bust.

He didn't have that many chips coming back today anyway, to be honest, and he dwindled and dwindled until there was nothing left. Still, he's got his first place money and bracelet from the $10,000 event to console himself with.

Tags: Greg Mueller

Russian on March

Alex on the up
Alex on the up
Alex Kravchenko opened the pot with a raise from MP and then called a three-bet from the cut-off. The {7-Spades} {4-Hearts} {6-Hearts} flop saw Kravchenko check raise his opponent only to be raised back. He called to see the {10-Diamonds} turn, where he check-called as he did on the {K-Hearts} river.

He showed {7-Hearts} {7-Spades} for the pot and he opponent mucked. The Russian up to 50,000 now.

Naalden Nails It

Naalden - ecstatically happy
Naalden - ecstatically happy
Quite a rough start for Marc Naalden -- he'd dropped down to just 5,000 when a spot of good fortune saw him double up twice to 20,000.

He got his last in with {A-?} {2-?} against an opponent's {7-?} {8-?} and the flop conveniently cam down a decisive {A-?} {A-?} X.

A couple hands later, Naalden got himself in a spot of bother, his pocket eights up against Jeff Wagner's pocket aces. But an eight on the turn, and Naalden was right back up to a fairly respectable 21,000.

Tags: Marc Naalden

Hang Hung a Little

The flop's out and read {5-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {10-Spades}. Tommy Hang check-called a bet from a player on the button. They both checked the {K-Clubs} river and Hang then led out on the {3-Clubs} river. His opponent called and showed {A-Spades} {10-Clubs}, which was good for the pot as Hang could only produce the {A-Clubs} {3-Hearts}. Hang down to 66,000.

O'Disaster for O'Dell

Oh dear, back to back disasters for Jared O'Dell have sent him fuming off for a little stroll.

Alex Keating opened under the gun and O'Dell and another gentleman on the cutoff both called. Over to Fu Wong in the small blind who reraised; three calls later and they were at the {K-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} {A-Hearts} flop.

Wong bet out and O'Dell was the only caller, so they went heads up to the {5-Hearts} turn. Wong checked and O'Dell bet; call. The river was the {J-Spades} and Wong checked again. This time when O'Dell bet, Wong raised. O'Dell called, but mucked when Wong turned over pocket aces for a full house.

Fair enough, that hand put Wong up to 40,000 and knocked former big stack O'Dell down to 52,000. But wait! There's more...

With the betting capped preflop, the short-stacked small blind moved all in on the {4-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} flop and O'Dell called in mid position. A couple seats down, Alex Kravchenko raised; O'Dell called that too.

O'Dell check-called the continued betting from Kravchenko on the {8-Hearts} turn and the {8-Diamonds} river before flipping pocket fours for the flopped set that had turned into a lackluster full house by the river -- and Kravchenko tabled {8-Spades} {7-Spades} for the turned full house and rivered quads. Nice.

Kravchenko's up to a very excellent 70,000 after that. The luckless O'Dell is down to 31,000 and just walked off in an attempt to center himself. Yikes.