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The floor quickly got a new cut card and replaced the bad one. Nick Frangos chimed in, "What about us? Ours is bad as well." The staff then replaced their cut card as well and hopefully no advantages were gained.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Entries
412
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
The floor quickly got a new cut card and replaced the bad one. Nick Frangos chimed in, "What about us? Ours is bad as well." The staff then replaced their cut card as well and hopefully no advantages were gained.
Gettin' His Bloch Knocked Off
Andy Bloch was just eliminated from the tournament on a hand of razz. Bloch made a nine low with
. His opponent pulled a seven low with 
to eliminate him from the tournament.
Luske Doubles
Marcel Luske was all in against Sebastien Sabic on fifth street. Here's how the boards ran out:
Luske: (
) 
Sabic: (
) 
"Ahh, I took your king." said Luske to Sabic after revealing his seventh and final card. He'd be out if the final cards were switched, but that wasn't the case and Luske successfully doubled to nearly 15,000 chips. Sabic was left with 22,350.
Don't Trai It
Trai Dang brought it in with the
, Keith Lehr called with the , and the table folded. Fourth street brought Dang the and Lehr the 
. Lehr bet, and Dang called. Fifth brought Lehr the 
, pairing his board, while Dang got the 
. This time Dang folded to Lehr's bet, and Lehr showed his down cards -- two aces.
Lehr is off to a good start, up to 42,500 now. Dang has 18,000.
Brock Parker Eliminated
Brock Parker was all in against Todd Brunson. Parker held a pair of jacks against Brunson's pair of kings and was eliminated from the event.
No Low for Rousso
Three players, including Vanessa Rousso and Diego Cordovez, had made it to fifth street. By sixth the third had dropped out, and there was a decent-sized pot in the middle as Cordovez was showing (X)(X)
and Rousso (X)(X)
. Rousso checked, Cordovez bet, and Rousso called.The dealer dealt seventh street, and again Rousso called Cordovez's bet. Cordovez showed
for queens and nines, and Rousso tossed her down cards to the dealer face up -- two fours and an eight (a lesser two pair, and no low). "I can never make a low," she said. Rousso is at 8,500, while Cordovez is up to 41,500.
Updates From Table #170
Table #170 includes Gavin Smith, Jacobo Fernandez, Stefan Rapp, and Felipe Ramos among others and some recent action went down in a couple of hands involving all of those players.
On the first hand, Fernandez was involved with Smith and Ramos. The three players built the pot up to about 20,000 chips before Smith ducked out on seventh street. On the end, Fernandez got one more bet in and was called by Ramos. Fernandez held three pair, deuces, threes, and fours, but we'll only count the threes and fours. Ramos mucked his hand and Jacobo scooped in the pot to move to 24,000.
On the next hand, Smith was involved again. This time, he was up against Rapp. Rapp scooped the entire pot with aces up and moved up to 38,000 chips. Smith dropped down to 12,300 chips after these two hands.
Level: 10
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
Bad Flop for Bonomo
Justin Bonomo had both Tuan Le and Richard Toth all in before the flop. Bonomo held
, Le had , and Toth 
. The flop brought sets to both of Bonomo's opponents --
. The turn was the and the river the 
, and Le bounces back up to 44,000. Bonomo falls to 9,000, and Toth hits the rail.
Aces Working for Others
Aces didn't work for Bonomo, but they are for everyone else, it seems.
A short-stacked Alex Kravchenko was just eliminated by Rami Boukai after the latter's pocket aces held up against Kravchenko's all-in. Boukai now has 38,000.
And Esther Taylor just used pocket aces to double through to 8,000 against Tuan Le's A-J after the flop came jack-high.