2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1a
Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 6,358
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This table started with Marcel Luske, but he was eliminated earlier this afternoon. One of our Pokernews bloggers had a good friend, Steve Liebenthal, moved to the table, only to find himself sitting with the likes of Victor Ramdin. As if that wasn't bad enough, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott was later moved to the table as well.
Since being moved there, Liebenthal went from 19,000 to 5,000 and Devilfish is down to just 2,600. Talk about a rough table!
Such was the case involving a hand with three amateur poker players we'll call A (for "pocket Aces"), B (for "bad luck"), and C (for "couldn't be happier"). "I had pocket Aces . . . " is probably the most commonly used opening line of most bad beat stories, and if this particular tale was being told by player A, that's exactly how it would begin.
These were the players' hands:
Player A:
Player B:
Player C:
The flop came down
, giving Player A top set, Player B bottom set, and Player C a pair of kings and a royal flush draw! Needless to say, fireworks ensued.Player A led out with a bet on the flop, which prompted player C to move all-in. Player B just called with his set of 10's, and when the action got back around to Player A, he went all-in over the top of Player C's all-in; Player B called.
Still with me? Good. After all of the betting was complete, the players revealed their cards to the sounds of "ooohing" and "awwing" from players and spectators alike.
The
fell on the turn, which did not affect the hand. As the players involved nervously awaited their fates, Player C continued to repeat, "I got every out in the book!" One of them was the 
which came on the river, giving Player C a pretty nice pot.One thing's for sure -- the World Series of Poker is not for the faint of heart.
.The very next hand Vos called a 14,100 all in bet from an early position player. Vos was holding
while his opponent had 
. The board ran out 
which was no help for Vos.
When asked how he played today Talbot had an unusually frank (and almost certainly erroneous) assessment of his game--"I suck at poker". But disappointed Penguin fans can at least breathe easy that Max won't be abandoning the ice to play poker full-time.
Immediately after that hand, Michael Mizrachi made it 1,200 to go and Leyser made it 13,300. Tilt? The flop came
. Mizrachi checked the flop and Leyser made it 5,000. Mizrachi folded and Leyser is up to 27,500.
Click here to check out the interview with Bobby, along with all the other videos from this event.
, Lasse Melby bet 6,000. Melby's opponent re-raised all-in and Melby made the call. The players showed . . .Melby: A-K
Opponent: A-Q
The turn and river were blanks and Melby doubled to 44,000.
