On the turn, Maria Ho and another player are all in. Ho has 5-5, but the other player has Q-Q and doubles up. Ho is down to 260,000.
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 2b
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 turn, Maria Ho and another player are all in. Ho has 5-5, but the other player has Q-Q and doubles up. Ho is down to 260,000.
On the river, in middle position, a player checks and the button bets 80,000. The MP player calls all in and turns over one ace -- mucking the other card! His opponent demands that his hand be ruled dead since he mucked one of the cards. The mucker quickly retrieves his card, but there's a big argument and the floor is called.
The ruling is that, since the player is all in, he is not allowed to muck his cards. Both hands are turned over, the
, and he splits the pot with the other guy, who has 
. (The board plays in this case -- which makes the reveal of a single ace even stranger.)
His opponent held
while THIS time it was Francois who held 
.The board ran out
,
, and as Francois himself said, "Ship it!"
Julian told us that the bigger the name at his table, the more he wants to knock them out. So far he has eliminated Chip Reese and Michael Binger, and we think he has his eye on the gentleman two seats to his right, former WSOP winner Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.
Julian has moved his stack up close to the leaders and is sitting on close to 350000.
Turner:
Olson:
The board helped neither player and Olson's ace-high was good. With 25 minutes remaining in Day 2b, Jon Turner headed to the rail.
.His opponent called with
, better at the moment than Court's 
.The turn and river
did not help Court and his tournament is over.
During the conversation, they discovered that their dealer was involved in musical theater.
So of course they asked her to sing them a song. Rebecca was more than happy to oblige, breaking out into a number from "Phantom of the Opera."
Who needs to go see a show? The Amazon Room has it all.
Preflop, in middle position, Rain Khan bets 7,200 and the big blind calls. On the flop, the big blind checks. Khan bets 12,000 and the big blind raises all in to 61,000. Khan calls. The big blind shows
, but Khan has and busts the player. He's up to 572,000.
