On the river, a player with 8-8 goes all in and Gene Strickland with
calls. The player shows quads, but Strickland has the turned straight flush and busts the poor player. Strickland is up to 180,000.
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1b
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 / 6358
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On the river, a player with 8-8 goes all in and Gene Strickland with
calls. The player shows quads, but Strickland has the turned straight flush and busts the poor player. Strickland is up to 180,000.
.His opponent folded and Scott showed
saying, "I just had to beat you once today."
The hand that put him on the ropes saw Faccer, holding
, move all in over the top of a 5,000 bet from his lone opponent on a flop of 
. Faccer's opponent made the call, committing the rest of his own chips to the pot with 
. Faccer missed all of his outs on both the turn and river and was left with just 3,000 chips.Shortly thereafter, Faccer found himself all in with pocket fives against an opponent's K-J. A jack on the flop ended Faccer's hopes of a comeback, and he was eliminated from the tournament.
Alspach raised all in on a seemingly harmless ten-high flop. His opponent quickly made the call and showed 10-10. Dan Alspach sighed and turned over his A-A, knowing he was in trouble. Alspach couldn't catch one of the two remaining aces in the deck and is yet another Day 1b casualty.
Roland de Wolfe raises to 2,200 preflop in late position. The button makes it 8,000 and de Wolfe calls. On the flop, de Wolfe checks and the button bets 10,000. de Wolfe check-raises all in to 20,000 and the button calls. de Wolfe has
and the button has 
. de Wolfe is out.
Helppi: 5-5
Tony G: 6-6
The board filled out A-9-K-8-A with Helppi picking up a flush draw on the turn. Helppi missed everything however and headed for the rail. Tony G is now in command of a chipstack of 38,000.
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. His opponent turned over .Redmond tightened his grip on the hand when the flop came
and officially sealed the deal on the turn when the 
fell off the deck.Redmond eliminated his opponent from the tournament and has since increased his chip stack to 86,000.
In a battle of the blinds, Mark Seif makes a standard preflop raise in the small blind, and the big blind goes all in over the top. Seif quickly calls and shows
. The opponent has and is eliminated. Seif is up to 69,400.
