Smith is now up to 450,000 chips.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 7 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Smith is now up to 450,000 chips.
Degeorge, who showed caught some outs when the fell on the turn, but missed both his flush and straight draws when the hit the river.
After the hand, Degeorge said he thought Tang was betting with air and would fold to the big reraise. Unfortunately for him, he was wrong.
Tang is now one of the chip leaders with 625,000.
Allis called a preflop raise with pocket tens and flopped a set on a ten-high flop. Allis checked and his opponent moved all in with Allis making the snap-call. His opponent showed pocket jacks and was in bad shape until another jack spiked on the river to leave Allis crippled. He was eliminated soon after.
After being crippled when she ran her into the of Max Longwith on a jack-high board, Naujoks moved her last 24,500 into the middle preflop woth only to be called by an opponent with .
Naujoks seeing a king on the flop but cringed at what followed when it was spread to give her opponent the nuts with the broadway straight. The turn brought a sweat with the but the river bricked the as the room got a little dimmer with the loss of Naujoks from the tournament.
Gary Tang - 490,000
Clint Miller - 420,000
Mark Salinaro - 370,000
Tom Koral - 360,000
Jacob Kalb started the action with a raise to 19,250 before Travis Johnson popped it up to 62,000 on the button. Josh Smith sensed some weakness and made it 148,000 to go from the small blind. Kalb folded but Johnson wasn’t mucking around as he moved all in for 300,000.
Smith sighed, did some math and decided he was now priced in to call with his however he was up against Johnson’s pocket queens. The flop brought a sweat with two diamonds but the turn and river bricked out.
Smith was dented but recovered some chips soon after his pocket kings took down a nice pot on a queen-high flop against an opponent with . Smith’s rollercoaster ride now sees him sitting with 300,000 chips.
Pesek is back to 125,000 with Greeley hanging on with 80,000.
Karp showed while Tang held . The on the turn left Tang just two outs, which didn't come and the on the river sealed the hand for Karp. Tang was left with just 235,000 while Karp now has 660,000.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000