$5,150 Championship Main Event Day 2 | 2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Hammond

11-02-2008 01:49 UTC-3

Ducks Be a Lady Tonight

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Preflop, Jason DeWitt raises to 28,000. Kyle Schertz and Gary Leibovitz call. The flop is {K-Clubs}

, and all three check. The turn is {4-Diamonds}

and all three check again. On a river of {3-Spades}

, Leibovitz leads out for 35,000. DeWitt folds and Schertz calls. He has {2-Clubs}

and it's good. He's up to 300,000 while Schertz falls to 165,000.

11-02-2008 01:38 UTC-3

Sameer Al-Dbhany limped in from middle position and Jason DeWitt raised to 47,000 from the button. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf in the small blind then made it 127,000 total. Sameer got out of the way as did Jason, and Dustin showed {A-Clubs}

to increase his stack to over 500,000.

11-02-2008 01:24 UTC-3

Quasi-Final Table

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Here's our final 10 participants. One more bust-out tonight.

1. Thomas Koral
2. George Dietz
3. Gary Leibovitz
4. Steve "MrSmokey1" Billirakis
5. Sameer Al-Dbhany
6. Ravi Raghavan
7. Jason DeWitt
8. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf
9. Domenico Caprara
10. Kyle Schertz

11-02-2008 01:19 UTC-3

Sameer Does It Again...Eliminates Nick Jivkov in 11th ($17,736)

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Nick Jivkov moved all in for 61,000 and in the small blind Domenico Caprara called. Sameer Al-Dbhany in the big bling then reraised all in for an additional 85,000. Domenico tanked before finally folding as Sameer turned up {Q-Spades}

, leading Nick's {5-Diamonds}

. The board came {8-Diamonds}

and Nick was out 11th.

Sameer is now up around the 300,000 mark.

11-02-2008 01:12 UTC-3

Sameer Al-Dbhany Doubles Up

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All of a sudden the chips are back in the air. Most recently, Sameer Al-Dbhany was able to double through Nick Jivkov when Sameer's {A-Clubs}

held against Nick's {A-Spades}

.

Sameer is now back around 150,000.

11-02-2008 01:10 UTC-3

Bad Laydown

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Steve "MrSmokey1" Billirakis raises and Ravi Raghavan reraises to 91,000. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf folds and Mr. Smokey three-bets all in. Ravi folds {7-Diamonds}

face-up, and Mr. Smokey shows... {5-Diamonds}

.

11-02-2008 01:04 UTC-3

What is This? Online Poker?...Shane Stokes Eliminated in 12th ($17,736)

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The craziest hand of the tournament just occurred. In the cutoff, Gary Leibovitz raised to 25,000 and Shane Stokes moved all in from the button for 105,000. Then in the small blind, Ravi Raghavan reraised all in for 125,000 total. Dustin Woolf folded his big blind and Gary Leibovitz called. The hands were:

Leibovitz: {Q-Hearts}

Stokes:

Raghavan:

The flop came {3-Hearts}

and Leibovitz took the lead. The {9-Spades}

turn kept it that way, but the river saw Raghavan let out a huge, "Oh my God!" as the {A-Clubs}

hit! The crowd could not believe it and neither could the players. Dustin Woolf even said he folded the {A-Hearts}

, to which Ravi Raghavan said proudly, "I hit one-outers baby!" as he collected his new stack of nearly 400,000.

Shane Stokes was eliminated in 12th place, while Gary Leibovitz slipped to 320,000.

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

11-02-2008 00:51 UTC-3

Kyle Schertz Doubles Through George Dietz

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George Dietz raised to 26,000 and Kyle Schertz moved all in for 111,000. Dietz called and flipped up {10-Diamonds}

and was racing against Schertz's {A-Hearts}

. The board rolled out {9-Diamonds}

as Kyle spiked a river ace to double up to 230,000. Dietz slipped to 80,000.

11-02-2008 00:48 UTC-3

That's So Tech

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The players and fans in the bleachers are having trouble concentrating on poker at the moment, seeing as Texas Tech just scored a last-second touchdown to defeat #1 ranked Texas.