Event 11 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-06-2008 14:02 UTC-7

Yang Gets the Double-Up

[user38368]

A player in middle position raised to 750 and Jerry Yang in late position went all in for 2,750. The MP player called with {Q-Hearts}

and Yang had {A-Hearts}

. The board was {Q-Spades}

and Yang doubled through to 5,800.

06-06-2008 14:05 UTC-7

Matusow Trying to Ride the Good Luck Tran

Shamus

Just a couple of minutes before the first break here.

Mike Matusow just spotted Theo Tran and asked him to give him some of his good luck. Tran has already made two final tables at this year's WSOP. He finished fourth in Event No. 1 ($1,500 No-Limit Hold'em) and is the chip leader heading into today's final table at Event No. 7 ($2,000 No-Limit).

Tags: MIke Matusow Theo Tran

06-06-2008 14:06 UTC-7

Johnny World Leaves Planet

[user38368]

John "Johnny World" Hennigan was all in, on the cutoff, for 3,260. Eric Fuller called from the cutoff+1 and showed {4-Hearts}

to Hennigan's {A-Clubs}

. The board was {5-Spades}

and Hennigan was out.

06-06-2008 14:07 UTC-7

Break Time

[user38368]

Players are on a 20-minute break.

06-06-2008 14:14 UTC-7

Yang Eliminated

Shamus

Right near the end of Level 2, Jerry Yang limped from under the gun, a middle-position player limped, and another player raised to 2,625. Yang called the bet, leaving himself about 2,600 behind. The MP player also called, and the three of them saw the flop come out {Q-Diamonds}

.

Yang went all in, and when the MP player folded, Yang turned over his hand -- {6-Clubs}

-- mistakenly thinking the third player was already all in as well. In fact, he still had over 5,000 behind. After seeing Yang's hand and doing a bit of math, he went ahead and made the call, showing {A-Spades}

.

The turn was the {4-Hearts}

and Yang was still alive. But the river brought the {K-Diamonds}

, and Yang hit the rail.

Tags: Jerry Yang

06-06-2008 14:19 UTC-7

Vivek Rajkumar Knocked out Jennifer Tilly

Shamus

Tags: Jennifer Tilly

06-06-2008 14:29 UTC-7

Typical

Shamus

Another hand from near the end of Level 2: On a flop of {8-Diamonds}

, Mike Matusow checked and Max Pescatori bet 3,000. Matusow thought for a while, then reraised all in. Pescatori made the call.

Pescatori showed {6-Diamonds}

for an open-ended straight draw. Matusow showed {Q-Diamonds}

for middle pair.

The turn was the {4-Clubs}

, and Matusow was drawing dead. He's down to about 1,125 in chips, while Pescatori is up to 27,000.

Tags: Max Pescatori Mike Matusow

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

06-06-2008 14:31 UTC-7

No Bloch Party

[user38368]

Andy Bloch and his opponent were all in preflop. Bloch had Q-9 and the opponent had A-Q. The board ran out 8-5-8-4-Q and Bloch was sent home -- or to the cash games.

06-06-2008 14:32 UTC-7

We're Back

Shamus

Cards are back in the air. We're at Level 3, with blinds 200/400 and antes of 50.

Remember, while we are listing players in the "Chip Counts" we aren't updating the counts over there other than to change players to zero when they are eliminated. When tables get down to two or three players, we'll try to give you some chip counts here in the blog.