2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Rincon

$5,000 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 2
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Event Info

2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Rincon

Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$706,800
Entries
148
Players Left
148
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000

$5,000 Circuit Championship Event

Day 2 Completed

Day 2 is a Wrap

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Chip leader Edward Sabat
Chip leader Edward Sabat
A very short Day 2 saw 18 eliminations take place in a little over five hours, leaving us with our nine-handed final table. Edward Sabat of Lancaster, CA finished the day atop the leaderboard with 854,000 in chips, followed closely behind by Kenny Bedoya who bagged 701,000 worth.

Here are your final nine, along with their seat assignments and chip counts:

Seat 1: Gavin Smith - 197,500
Seat 2: David Peters - 442,000
Seat 3: Damien Oborne - 124,000
Seat 4: Jon Eaton - 75,000
Seat 5: Kenny Bedoya - 701,500
Seat 6: Michael Pickett - 121,000
Seat 7: Edward Sabat - 854,000
Seat 8: Cristian Avendano - 96,500
Seat 9: Lee Watkinson - 337,000

Play will resume tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 p.m. local time when our nine finalists play down to a winner.

Until then, good night and good luck!

Tags: Edward Sabat

Reese Out in 10th; Final Table Set!

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Scott Reese - 10th place finisher
Scott Reese - 10th place finisher
Shortly after the ten remaining finalists broke to a single table, tenth place was decided in a monstrous hand that saw Scott Reese eliminated from the tournament by tournament chip leader Edward Sabat.

Action folded around to Sabat, who opened with a 22,000 raise; Reese was the lone caller. The flop came {6-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{Q-Diamonds} and Sabat passed the first action to Reese, who put in a min-bet of 8,000. Sabat then check-raised to 38,000 -- a bet that was countered by another min-raise from Reese, who made it 68,000 to go. Sabat finalized the raising by putting Reese to a decision for all of his chips. Forget decisions, however; Reese insta-called, tabling {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts} for trip queens, but Sabat had him in bad shape with {6-Spades}{6-Hearts}.

The turn and river, though they had no impact on the end result, came {J-Spades}, {4-Clubs}, and Sabat took down the pot, extending his chip lead over the other eight players who will join him at tomorrow’s final table.

Reese took home $11,309 for his tenth-place finish.

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Level: 16

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

Doug Caillier Eliminated in 12th Place ($11,309)

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Lee Watkinson has just eliminated Doug Caillier from the tournament in 12th place after the two players engaged in a pre-flop all-in confrontation. Caillier tabled {J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} for a slight lead against Watkinson's {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}.

The board filled out {8-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{5-Spades}{K-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}, giving Watkinson a rivered pair of queens and the checkmark for the hand.

Caillier took home $11,309 in prize money for his 12th-place finish. Watkinson stacked up just under 400,000 in chips with the win.

Tags: Doug Caillier

Sang Hwang Eliminated in 13th Place ($9,895)

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Sang Hwang
Sang Hwang
Action folded around to Sang Hwang in the small blind and he raised all in for his last 43,000 chips. Damien Oborne called the all in from the big blind.

Hwang showed {A-Spades}{6-Diamonds}. Damien showed his love for suited connectors, tabling {10-Spades}{9-Spades}. Oborne flopped an open-ended straight draw on the {8-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{2-Spades} board but it was the {10-Hearts} on the turn that gave him a pair and the winning hand when the {5-Clubs} failed to improve Hwang's hand.

Tags: Sang Hwang

Michael Dolan Eliminated in 14th Place

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Michael Dolan raised to 20,000 from middle position and after Damien Oborne called on the button, Michael Pickett re-raised all in for 98,500 total. Dolan, who was covered by Pickett, made the call and Oborne folded.

Dolan showed {Q-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} and Pickett had {A-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}. The board came {7-Hearts}{9-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{K-Spades} and Dolan was eliminated, earning $9,895 for his 14th-place finish.

Tags: Michael Dolan

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