2008 World Series of Poker

Event 11 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
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Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$477,990
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Total Entries
360
Level Info
Level
5
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 360
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Table 24
John Monnette 51,000
Jeff Norman 17,000
Robert Scherrer 32,000

Table 25
Six remaining. John Juanda, Chris Vaughn and Phil Hellmuth all have comfortable stacks. Bill Chen is short-stacked.

Table 23
Four remaining. Alex Jacob is leading.

Table 50
Six left. Erik Seidel is comfortable. Vanessa Selbst just busted out.

Table 24
Six remaining. Sabyl Landrum, Beth Shak and Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy all have plenty of chips.

Table 28
Six left. Chad Brown and Humberto Brenes are on the short stack. Max Pescatori and Eugene Todd are doing fine.

Level: 4

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

Ryan Thurlow Advances to Round 2

Ryan "sleepy_hippo" Thurlow has won his table and will be back tomorrow for Round 2.

In the winning hand, his opponent raised his last 2,600 preflop and Thurlow called with pocket deuces. His opponent showed {A-Spades}{J-Hearts}.

The board came {Q-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{10-Spades}{5-Spades}. Thurlow's ducks held up, and he moves on to the next round.

Tags: Ryan Thurlow

It's Not Alaei

On a flop of {9-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{5-Hearts}, the small blind bet 8,000. Daniel Alaei went all in for 8,200 and the small blind called. Alaei showed {K-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} to his opponent's {Q-Hearts}{J-Clubs}. The turn and river were {5-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} and Alaei was out.