Allen Kessler Doubles through David Benefield
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, Benefield had A-J, and the board came all baby cards. Kessler now sits with 70,000 before him.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 1 - $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$3,308,800
Entries
352
Level
26
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
, Benefield had A-J, and the board came all baby cards. Kessler now sits with 70,000 before him.
Matt Graham Doubles through Chris Ferguson
for the flopped straight to crush Ferguson's pocket queens. Adding insult to injury, a meaningless queen fell on the river, much like what had happened to "Jesus" in a previous hand, when he rivered a straight, only to lose to his opponent's four-card flush. Graham has 155,000 while Ferguson has slipped to 76,000.
Sexton Involved in Key Pots
In the first hand, after a button player raised to 8,100, Sexton reraised to 26,100 from the small blind. Jeremiah Vinsant looked at his hole cards and announced that he would raise pot, which meant he would be all in.
The button folded and action was back on Sexton, who flopped back in his chair and seemed very displeased by the all-in move. It was about 30,000 more for Sexton to call. Sexton tanked for a few minutes uneasily, and then finally made the fold with a disgusted smirk on his face.
In the very next hand, Sexton had the button and raised to 8,500. The small blind folded. Vivek Rajkumar in the big blind reraised pot by placing a stack of 10 orange 5,000-denomination chips in the middle. Once again, Sexton looked unhappy with the action, but this time made the call all in after only a few moments.
Sexton showed
and Rajkumar showed 
.The flop came
, the turn came the 
, and the river the 
allowing Sexton to double up to around 110,000 chips.
Lyle Berman Eliminates Bill Chen...And the Shark Misses a Meal
Now it was Chen's turn to think things over. He said something and in response Berman said, "If you have total crap, well, how can you call?" But in the end Chen did make the call, and found that his
trailed Berman's 
. Humberto said he folded pocket Queens...which meant that he had to be sick when the flop came 
. The 
on the turn and the 
on the river brought Chen no help and Berman boosted his stack to 160,000. Brenes sits with 85,000 and, no doubt, some small regret.
Break Time
Recent Eliminations
Players Return from Break
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 0
Top 5 in Chips
Patrik Antonius 315,000
Anthony Licastro 304,000
Raphael Zimmerman 285,000
Amit Makhija 275,000
Nenad Medic Passes 300K
on the river, James Gorham bet 27,000 from the big blind and Nenad Medic called from UTG. Medic turned up pocket tens, Gorham mucked, and Medic dragged the pot, increasing his stack to 315,000.