2008 World Series of Poker

Event 1 - $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
57
Prize
$794,112
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$3,308,800
Entries
352
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0

Eli Elezra Leads as 70 Players Begin Day 2 Action; Seat Assignments Confirmed

Eli Elezra rode a couple of huge pots in the last levels of the first day to move into Day 2 of the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event #2) as the chip leader. Elezra's 302,900 chips were over 50,000 ahead of second-place Amit Makhija's 251,100, though seven other players also finished the opening day of action over the 200,000 chip mark.

Here are the Day 2 seating assignments for the event, with seat and table listings, player names and chip counts:

Table 4 (Table-Seat, Player, Chips):
04-01 Michael Pesek 41,000
04-02 Grant Lang 125,500
04-03 Chris Ferguson 101,700
04-04 Matthew Graham 37,000
04-05 Andy Bloch 113,100
04-06 John Kabbaj 66,900
04-07 Ben Sprengers 153,700
04-08 Luke Staudenmaier 39,700
04-09 Andew Scott 48,200

Table 5:
05-01 Anna Wroblewski 34,400
05-02 Nikolay Evdakov 206,200
05-03 Tommy Vinas 60,400
05-06 Humberto Brenes 103,300
05-06 Al Adler 18,900
05-07 Lyle Berman 103,200
05-08 James Gorham 60,300
05-09 Nenad Medic 240,200

Table 8:
08-01 Andreas Krause 89,200
08-02 Rolf Slotboom 37,100
08-03 Josh Egan 40,800
08-04 Jason DeWitt 59,100
08-05 Ryan Young 99,300
08-06 Darryl Ronconi 44,800
08-07 Phil Laak 169,000
08-08 Jerri Thomas 32,700
08-09 Paul Zuzelo 60,300

Table 9:
09-01 David Peters 45,000
09-02 David Benyamine 107,200
09-03 Beth Shak 38,600
09-04 Raphael Zimmerman 168,800
09-05 David Benefield 131,900
09-06 Patrik Antonius 236,300
09-07 Joseph Sanders 131,000
09-08 Allen Kessler 47,700
09-09 Joe Patrick 50,000

Table 10:
10-01 David Bach 204,100
10-02 Amit Makhija 251,100
10-03 Richard Toth 163,400
10-04 Dustin Woolf 49,700
10-05 Hasan Habib 25,800
10-06 Anthony Licastro 211,000
10-07 Chris Bell 141,000
10-09 Jennifer Harman 28,700

Table 11:
11-01 Greg Hopkins 52,100
11-02 Clark Hamagami 38,600
11-03 Bill Chen 99,200
11-04 Ted Lawson 40,000
11-05 Emad Tahtouh 73,600
11-06 Kazuki Ikeuchi 88,000
11-07 Tuan Le 190,000
11-08 John Patgorski 117,100
11-09 Mats Rahmn 22,000

Table 12:
12-01 David Stroj 160,000
12-02 Shawn Keller 112,100
12-03 Mark Newhouse 116,000
12-04 Bill O'Connor 49,000
12-05 Marco Johnson 93,000
12-06 Mike Sexton 76,000
12-07 Jeremiah Vinsant 42,300
12-08 Vivek Rajkumar 194,000
12-09 Eli Elezra 302,900

Table 13:
13-01 Kathy Liebert 55,500
13-02 Alexander Kostritsyn 144,000
13-03 Robert Zipf 12,300
13-04 Chuck Pacheco 191,600
13-05 Chris Gildone 94,400
13-06 Justin Newton 233,000
13-07 Mike Sowers 216,700
13-08 Michael Martin 28,000
13-09 Mario Silvestri III 34,500

Action resumes at 2pm in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship. Join us this afternoon for all the latest updates.

Level: 11

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 0

Paging Al Adler...

Al Adler survived Day One with 18,900 in chips, but play has resumed on Day Two and he hasn't yet taken his seat. The blinds just passed him by and if he doesn't arrive soon he won't find any chips waiting for him.

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Rolf Slotboom Rivers Josh Egan

The two players got all the money in before the flop and Egan's {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts} dominated Slotboom's {A-Hearts}{J-Hearts}. The flop came {7-Spades}{8-Hearts}{2-Hearts} and Slotboom began chanting, "Jacks or hearts, jacks or hearts, jacks or hearts" like a mantra. The turn was the {6-Spades} but on the river the {J-Spades} spiked, giving Slotboom the pot and leaving Egan to sit back in his chair and take a very deep breath. The two players were nearly equal in chips coming into play today and losing that hand crippled Egan.

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Quads Will Suffice

Ted Lawson and Clark Hamagami got all the money in preflop, with Lawson showing {10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} and Hamagami K-J. Clark hit the {Q-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{A-Clubs} flop to take the lead, but the {10-Spades} on the turn put Lawson back in the driver's seat and the lovely {10-Hearts} on the river gave him quads and the pot. Hamagami was eliminated from today's event and Lawson now sits with 95,000.

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