Event 9 - $1,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-04-2009 17:01 UTC-12

Firestone Outflops Fox

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What a tough exit for David Fox! After Manny Minaya opened with a raise that was called by Bobby Firestone, Fox moved all in from the big blind for 190,000. That was enough to fold Minaya, but Firestone called with {J-Diamonds}

. His knaves found a companion on a flop of {2-Clubs}

, which was fortunate for Firestone because Fox tabled {A-Diamonds}

. No love for Fox on the turn or river; he's out.

Firestone crested the half-million mark with that pot.

Tags: Bobby Firestone David Fox Manny Minaya

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

06-04-2009 16:48 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air. 27 players remain.

06-04-2009 16:25 UTC-12

Break Time!

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Players are on a twenty-minute break. Why not flip over to the coverage of Event 8 - $2,500 NL Deuce-to-Seven Draw - while you wait?

06-04-2009 16:20 UTC-12

Wow!

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A big three-way all in has created a new chip leader, and it was a doozy of a hand. Manny Minaya started by limping from middle position. Alan Sass had the button and took the opportunity to raise to 16,000. The big blind, Mats Gavatin, made what looked to be a squeeze play by raising all in for 96,400.

Minaya hemmed and hawed, thought things through, and then raised all in himself. He had Sass covered, so it was Sass who was all in and at risk of elimination once he called for 170,000 (which he did). Hands, gentlemen!

Minaya: {A-Spades}

Sass:

Gavatin:

Minaya found himself in an great situation, having both of his opponents absolutely crushed. Imagine his nerves when the flop came all hearts, {6-Hearts}

. It was even worse when the case ace hit the turn, because the case ace was the {A-Hearts}

! Sass was in line for an incredibly improbable win, but a board pair on the river {Q-Diamonds}

gave Minaya the full house and the victory.

With that pot, Minaya eliminated two opponents and took over the chip lead at 565,000 chips.

Tags: Alan Sass Manny Minaya Mats Gavatin

06-04-2009 16:09 UTC-12

"Oops"

MarcC

Some chips were already in the middle and the turn had just been dealt giving us a {4-Spades}

board. Jack Densing checked from the BB before Praz Bansi bet 22,500 from the button. Densing responded by raising to 60,000 before Bansi quickly went all in. Densing shook his head and Bansi spotted this and went "Oops".

Densing responded with "Yep, but I'm committed now" and called the extra.

Densing tabled {A-Spades}

to Bansi's {10-Clubs}

. The river came {7-Spades}

meaning Bansi's hand holds up and he doubles to 210,000. Densing down to 97,000.

06-04-2009 16:04 UTC-12

Hero(y) Call

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We couldn't resist the obvious pun, even though it doesn't really apply in this situation. Jonas Mackoff put in a preflop reraise to 31,000 after Rob Heroy opened with a raise. Heroy re-reraised to 120,000 only to see Mackoff move all in.

It was an easy call for Heroy with {A-Spades}

; he was up against Mackoff's {Q-Clubs}

. Cue an empty ten-high board and ship the chips to Heroy.

Tags: Jonas Mackoff Rob Heroy

06-04-2009 16:00 UTC-12

Stay of Execution Short-Lived for Furst

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Rafe Furst got his chips into the middle in a bad spot once against David Fox and managed to pull out a victory. He couldn't do it twice. Furst was all in for about 55,000 preflop with {A-Hearts}

and was called by Fox, who tabled {A-Spades}

. The dealer produced a board of {8-Hearts}

. With that board, Furst is retired and Fox is up to 210,000.

Tags: David Fox Rafe Furst

06-04-2009 15:54 UTC-12

Ouch

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"That's a lot of money to go in preflop," one observer said. He was referring to a hand between Steve McNally and Carman Cavella. We can't tell you how the raising went; we only got to the table when the cards were on their back. McNally showed down {8-Spades}

against Cavella's {A-Diamonds}

. McNally's whole stack of 175,000 was in the middle before the flop came down a beautiful {5-Clubs}

to give him a full house, eights full of fives. McNally simply had to dodge the remaining two aces; he did so when the turn and river came {4-Hearts}

and

.

As a result of paying McNally off, Cavella is down to 138,000. McNally now sits among the leaders with 370,000.

Tags: Carman Cavella Steve McNally

06-04-2009 15:51 UTC-12

At the Other Corner of the Room...

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We're in the Orange section of the Amazon Room. Over at the feature table (in the opposite corner of the room) Phil Ivey is heads up with John Monnette for a bracelet in the Kansas City Lowball event. Follow all of the action by selecting Event 8 from the drop-down box on the right hand side of the screen (in a new tab, of course, so you can keep up with what's going on here in Event 9!).