Donnie Peters
An early position player raised to 1,200 and 2004 Main Event champion Greg "Fossilman" Raymer made a pot-sized reraise from the cutoff. The original raiser called.
Raymer's opponent checked the flop and Raymer moved all in for 7,300. His opponent thought and then called the all-in bet showing . Raymer turned over the . The turn brought the and Raymer says, "That's a good card for you, it gives you more outs."
The river brought the and Raymer's opponent made a queen-high straight to bust the Fossilman.
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Barry Greenstein
As mentioned earlier, Barry Greenstein has been eliminated. Shawn Keller and Greenstein got the chips all in preflop with Greenstein holding A-K and Keller holding T-T.
When Keller saw he was ahead going to the flop, he jumped up and yelled, "Come on, tens!"
The flop was good to Keller as the fell. The turn was the and the river the to eliminate Greenstein from action.
Clonie Gowen
Clonie Gowen took her up against Nikolay Evdakov's in a race for her tournament life. Things looked good for Gowen on the flop and even better on the turn, but the fell on the river, eliminating her from Event #1.
Lee Watkinson moved in the last of his chips with and Phil Laak made the call with . All looked good for Laak as the flop came and the turn the , but on the river Watkinson spiked the to double up and stay alive. He now has 21,000, while Laak was left with 14,500.
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The $10,000 buy-in World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em event had a total of 352 entrants that created a prize pool of $3,308,800.
36 places will be paid out in this event with the winner standing to capture nearly $800,000 and the first coveted gold bracelet of the 2008 World Series of Poker. For more information on the payout structure, click on the 'Prizepool and Payouts' link in the right menu.
Under the gun Andy Bloch raised to 1,025 and Mike Sexton and Steve Wong called from the blinds. The players all checked the flop, and when the hit and both Sexton and Wong checked, Bloch fired out 1,500. Sexton then raised to 4,500, Wong folded, and Bloch made the call. The river was the and Sexton led out for 7,000, a bet Bloch didn't call. That pot boosted Sexton's stack to 43,000 and left Bloch with 10,400.
After a flop of the player in the big blind checked and Rousso bet 1,000. The BB check-raised to 2,800 and Rousso kicked it up to 7,000. The big blind shipped in his last 20,000 and that sent Rousso into the tank for several minutes. She made the call and found that her trailed her opponent's . Rousso didn't improve, and dropping that pot reduced her stack to 3,000.