2008 World Series of Poker
Event 1 - $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$3,308,800
Entries
352
Level
26
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 352
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Since the game began earlier, play on the felt has seemingly tightened up. Players can be seen watching the big, flat-screen monitors that are displaying the game at every chance they get. There is a lot of talk about who took what action on the game, and other players are tossing around ideas on various prop bets.
A $10,000 buy-in event, or who knows how much is riding on the basketball game?
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
. On the turn of the 
, Pescatori's opponent bet out 3,000. Pescatori made the call.The river brought the
and Pescatori made a call of 5,000 after his opponent bet. Pescatori showed Q-Q and his opponent showed 10-9. Pescatori is now up to over 37,000.
and was in great shape against her opponent's 
. The board ran out 
and the Poker Pixie's aces held, doubling her stack to 24,000.
"Wow, I'm starting to take this personally!" said Shak, referring to the fact that Sexton has been tangling in a lot of pots with her.
Shak made the call and they saw a flop of
. Sexton led out for 15,000, inducing a fold from an annoyed Shak.
Across the room, Kevin Saul has amassed a healthy stack of 65,000.
Finally, Phil Ivey eliminated Marco Traniello, increasing his stack to 60,000 after spending the majority of the dinner break sweating the Celtics-Pistons game. Don't know what side he had -- his sports-betting face is apparently just as good as his poker face.
Both players took the flop of
and Le checked. Minieri fired out a bet of 6,500. Le raised to 16,500 and Minieri wasted little time in reraising all in. Le made the call.Le: 3-3
Minieri: K-K
The turn was the
, giving Le a straight. The river was the and Le was able to take a big pot from Minieri.In the very next hand, Tuan bet 10,000 on the turn after his opponent checked a board that read
. His opponent called. The river was the and Le's opponent checked again.This time, Tuan bet 40,000 to put his opponent all in. His opponent called and Le turned over the
for two pair. His opponent mucked and was sent to the rail.Tuan Le has increased his chip stack to over 100,000 in just a couple of hands after the dinner break.
"Do you have a big ace? I feel like gambling," said Rousso as she moved all in for her remaining 8,000. Brenes called the additional 2,000 and turned up
, dominating Rousso's . The board ran out 
and the Costa Rican Shark took it down, eliminating Rousso.
