Steve showed
while his opponent had 
.The board was bad for Steve, coming
, so he was looking for running queens or straight cards. The 
on the turn was neither and the 
on the river was irrelevant.
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1d
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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Steve showed
while his opponent had .The board was bad for Steve, coming
, so he was looking for running queens or straight cards. The on the turn was neither and the on the river was irrelevant.
, a short-stacked William Thorson moved all in preflop. Thorson got only one caller who turned up 
. Thorson had live cards, but an Ace on the flop and no help thereafter was enough to earn his opponent the pot and send Thorson to the rail.
. Gold flipped over 
. The flop was 
. The turn was the 
. Gold was drawing to six outs. His tournament life and run as World Champion was on the line. He stood up preparing for the worst. Alas, the 
fell on the river. The 2006 WSOP Champion Jamie Gold was eliminated. There will not be back-to-back champions this year. The last player to win consecutive titles was Johnny Chan back in 1987 and 1988. Chan was close to being a three-peat. Chan lost to Phil Hellmuth heads-up at the 1989 main event.
Five players saw a flop of
. The action was checked to the button who bet 4,000. Two players called before it got back to Negreanu, who then made it 10,000, saying "I'm not worried about you (pointing at one of the players), I'm worried about him." The button folded and the player in seat one made the call.The action was then on the player Negreanu was "worried" about. "I'm not worried about you, Daniel, I'm worried about him!" he said, indicating the player who had called Daniel's raise. He then flashed pocket aces to the crowd behind him before mucking them.
The turn card was the
. Negreanu's opponent checked, Negreanu moved all in, and his opponent mucked.Someone said "show the bluff," to which Negreanu replied "Bluff? Do you think I'm gonna check-raise 19 people for my tournament life? I could beat three 3's. You're smart . . . you figure it out."
Negreanu is now up to 52,000. I think a lot of people are worried.
The A-K didn't find a pair, but a flush beats a pair every day, and today that's how Micon's tournament ends.
A player in middle position raises to 1,200 and Dutch Boyd re-raises to 3,600 in late position. The MP player calls. On the flop, MP checks and Boyd bets 3,600. The MP calls. They check it the rest of the way down and the MP has
. Boyd mucks and is down to 18,800.
. Phan led out for 600 and got two calls. The turn card came the . All three players checked. The river came the . Phan bet 4,000 and the next player to act raised to 10,000. The player in between called and Phan went into the tank. After a couple of minutes, he showed his cards -- 
-- to his side of the table before folding. The raiser had A-A for a full house and Phan seemed content with losing the minimum on the hand.
