Event 39 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-21-2009 09:52 UTC-12

Parise Crippled

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Brett Parise picked a bad time for a crippling -- just one table out of the money. It was blind on blind for a flop of {7-Hearts}

. Parise was the small blind and checked to his opponent, who bet 5,000. Parise then check-raise all in, putting his opponent deep into the tank. Parise had his opponent covered, so calling on the bubble could be disastrous.

In the end he did decide to call with {10-Spades}

, top pair. Parise turned over {4-Diamonds}

for bottom pair. The {9-Hearts}

that hit the turn made the hand a lock for Parise's opponent, and good thing -- the {3-Clubs}

hit the river!

Once the stacks were counted down, Parise's opponent doubled to about 55,000 while Parise was left with 6,000.

Tags: Brett Parise

06-21-2009 09:59 UTC-12

King Shares Pot with Le

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Zachary "ckingusc" King opened the pot from late position with a raise to 3,200. In the small blind, Nam Le stacked up a tower of chips and slipped in a reraise to 20,600. When it passed back to King, he moved all in for just a few thousand more.

Le called and showed down {A-Diamonds}

, and King frowned as he tabled {A-Clubs}

. The board would keep him from going broke though, running out {8-Clubs}

. With two pair on the board, the pot is chopped in half, and no chips change hands.

Le certainly could have used the boost to his stack. With 35,000, he's just a bit below average. Le has another set of chips to tend to across the hall, as he also owns a spot in Day 2 of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. He's a bit above average over there with 94,000, so we expect that he might nurse his stack over here at least until the bubble bursts.

Speaking of the bubble, we're just four spots from the money right now.

Tags: Nam Le Zachery King

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

06-21-2009 10:02 UTC-12

Blowing Bubbles

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With just a couple more unhappy eliminations to get through before the money hits, the tournament is now being dealt hand-for-hand.

06-21-2009 10:03 UTC-12

Harrison Delivering the Punishment

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Now that we're on the bubble, Audley Harrison is abusing the hell out of his table. He just dragged three or four pots in a row and has amped up his aggression. That's easy to do when you're sitting behind a stack of 115,000 and nobody else on the table has more than 40,000.

Tags: Audley Harrison

06-21-2009 10:14 UTC-12

A Murmur Rises

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We went to hand-for-hand play at 274 players, three out of the money. The tournament staff announced that on the last hand we lost two players. A wave of anticipation (and noise) passed through the room. How many more hands until the bubble bursts?

06-21-2009 10:26 UTC-12

Pop!

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The money bubble has burst. On the last hand, we lost two different players.

On one table, Dennis Sargent moved all in from the button for his last 100 chips. Jeff Williams was in the small blind and raised to 5,000. Tristan Wade called from the big blind. Both players checked the action all the way down on a board of {A-Diamonds}

. Sargent made a pair of deuces, but Wade made a pair of jacks to eliminate Sargent.

On Table 179, Tom West moved all in preflop with {A-Clubs}

and was called by a player with {J-Hearts}

. The board ran out {9-Clubs}

to bust West.

06-21-2009 10:32 UTC-12

Let the Parade of Bust-Outs Begin

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While we were observing play during hand-for-hand action, we noticed lots of stacks out there that were under 16,000 chips (ten big blinds). Expect a deluge of eliminations now that the bubble has burst.

First up: Yueqi Zhu, who lost a flip with pocket deuces to Denny Robinson's ace-king.

06-21-2009 10:42 UTC-12

Bonomo Caught in the Flood

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It's a bit crazy on the floor right now as all of the short stacks finally start shoving. A line has formed at the payout table -- the elimianted players can't be processed fast enough. One player we spotted in line is Justin Bonomo. Bonomo was leading this tournament at one point yesterday, but now he's out.

Tags: Justin Bonomo

06-21-2009 10:46 UTC-12

Fish Fries Opponent

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Darryl Fish has avoided the lure of the payout table so far. On a flop of {9-Clubs}

, two opponents checked to Fish, who bet 8,500. One of those two opponents then check-raised all in for about 22,500. Fish was the only caller, tabling a monster top-pair-and-flush-draw combination, {J-Clubs}

, against unimproved {A-Hearts}

. The board rolled out running nines to send Fish's opponent to the rail.

Fish is up to about 85,000.

Tags: Darryll Fish